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FF7R wasn't an outright flop IIRC, but then again I haven't looked at whatever the budget is for it, I assume it cost a fortune since they're doing everything from scratch and they split the game up so much, there's probably gonna be 7 parts to it by the time they leave Midgar, if the game ever does.
>FF7 is a masterpiece to most of its remaining fans and people are still autistic enough to feud over Aeri[th/s]'s name to this day, so they get a bit fussy about messing with it
>FF7R is loaded with retcons, changes to gameplay, Tifa's boobs, really just about everything's changed
>knowing SE, Aeri[s/th] will probably live or be revived in FF7R too
>Cloud being a Generic Anime Swordsman With Big Sword (despite kinda being one of the origins of that trope) annoys some oldfag weebs and really drives normalfags batty
>splitting up the game into a bunch of different "games" also annoys people who were expecting "FF7 but with effort put in past disc 1" or "FF7 but not prerendered"
>the ghosts
>the yellow paint
>this all pisses off FF7 fans, the biggest faction of people that would've bought it
>a lot of non-autistic FF7 fans have moved out of the FF series anyway
The fact it's selling as well as it is is surprising to me, in theory it should've been a lot worse.

Also NGL, XVI is so much of an unknown to me, I don't think I've seen a single clip, a single ad, a single streamer mention the game, not even one of those ""recommended"" videos on Youtube. I don't know the characters or the plot, nothing.
I remember someone memeing about the game once either here or on Twitter, but fuck if I know, I barely remember what they were making fun of the game for.