Do you think we will get an FF7 remake crossover event?

Yoshi originally said no as he didn’t want to detract from their development time while it was in production, which is a fair understandable response. But now it’s (very nearly) out, do you think we could see an event in the future?

If so, what rewards would you like to see? The bike is already the game so would need to be a different mount. Tiny Bronco? Landbuggy? A big dancing moogle?

I hope we do see a crossover in the future, as we had it with XIII and XV once they were released.

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Originally Posted by MrPresident

Do you think we will get an FF7 remake crossover event?

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Yoshi originally said no as he didn’t want to detract from their development time while it was in production, which is a fair understandable response.

Yes.

With the state of the world right now I imagine they might only have enough manpower or resources to dedicate to their normal workload, and nothing more.

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Originally Posted by MrPresident

But now it’s (very nearly) out, do you think we could see an event in the future?

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They still have more to go though don't they? The official site for the remake states this is just the first game within the project going to a certain point in the original story (but going into more depth than the original). I imagine until the entire project is completed, they're going to be full steam ahead as long as the staff are available.

Yes. For the love of god, I want a Buster Sword! And before anybody says it, the freaking DPS 1 and 2 bars Limit Break doesn't count! >:(

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Originally Posted by Soge01

Yes. For the love of god, I want a Buster Sword! And before anybody says it, the freaking DPS 1 and 2 bars Limit Break doesn't count! >:(

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you only get your Buster Sword if I get my Sephiroth gear... i would include the hair style and sword but i figure the gear would take a miracle to begin with

Yeah its not going to happen with this current release, but keep in mind the its going to be released in parts so they could have an event for one of the future parts.

Took years for ffxv cross over i expect the same with a 7 one

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Originally Posted by Krystalmethot

you only get your Buster Sword if I get my Sephiroth gear... i would include the hair style and sword but i figure the gear would take a miracle to begin with

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Your character immediately made me think of Sephiroth, and why not! The Sephiroth outfit, I mean. Hell, I'd love to face him in FFXIV as a collaboration boss. And while Sephiroth's sword would never be able to be be made into a an actual weapon (Though maybe for Dark Knight, *wink wink*) if we were given a shorter version of it then I'd be down for that.

Also, if this collab ever happened, I'd vote to have not just Sephiroth'a outfit but also, Cloud's solider uniform, both character's hairstyles and fighting stances when paired with either of their FFXIV variant of their weapons, and the outfits and hairstyles from the rest of the FF7 main cast.

I made a thread some months back how it'd be pretty cool if we could get Barret's gatleen gun arm for Machinest and though it was immediately pointed out how it wouldn't be possible to have such a arm in game to replace the Machinest's gun, I still have some hope as it could be treated as slip on glove to go over the hand where the fire arm should be. :'3

I'mma just copy/paste my response from a previous thread:

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Originally Posted by Kalise

So, as you're probably aware, the FFVII Remake is soon to release.

However, as Yoshida has mentioned in an interview there won't be a Crossover event with FFXIV on its release, due to not wanting to overburden the FFVII team whom are already under pressure for releasing the (Very, very hyped) game.

Though, there still remains a possibility where post release some time, there could be a crossover event (I'm sure Papa SE would love to see the 2 decades worth of FFVII hype translate into more sales in FFXIV too and thus fund a crossover)

In the case that a FFVII + FFXIV crossover event DOES happen, what would you wish to see? What would you like to see in the event itself? What rewards would you like?

Personally, I'd love the following:

Event:

• A NM + EX Trial where you and Cloud fight against Sephiroth
  
• You help the team take out a rogue Shinra squad (Whom have built a Mako Reactor for reasons)
  
• Yuffie steals your Materia (Again)

Rewards:

Weapon Glams:
Buster Sword for DRK
Cerberus for MCH (Technically from Dirge of Cerberus spin off than FFVII proper but close enough)
Princess Guard for WHM
Venus Gospel for DRG
A pair of mini 4-point Shuriken (Yuffie's default weapon) for DNC

Outfits:
Tifa's outfit
Vincent's outfit
Yuffie's outfit
Aerith's outfit
Barret's outfit
Sephiroth's outfit
Red XIII's hairpin as a head glamour item
Cid's goggles as a head glamour item

Minions:
Mini Red XIII

Mounts:
The blue pickup truck as a 4 player mount.
The motorbike that Cloud uses.

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I think it's quite likely that an event will occur. It's easy money for SE.

The real question would be when it'll occur. When will the FFVIIR team have enough "Free" development time in order to not be burdened by checking over the crossover stuff? Will that coincide with a period of time when the FFXIV team aren't busy?

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Originally Posted by Kalise

I think it's quite likely that an event will occur. It's easy money for SE.

The real question would be when it'll occur. When will the FFVIIR team have enough "Free" development time in order to not be burdened by checking over the crossover stuff? Will that coincide with a period of time when the FFXIV team aren't busy?

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SPOILER ALERT

Irony is, it's

amazing just how many subtle references to FFXIV there are in FFVIIR *cough cough* (in case you're wondering, FFVII Remake Episode 1 was released early in certain PAL territories due to the pandemic which included my home country Australia so I got it too :). Like a certain boss fight having an attack literally called 'Heavensward' (all one word, just like the FFXIV expansion title), or the Sephiroth clones stealing their robes from the Ascians). And that is a good thing. :)

So a crossover with FFVII to coincide with the first episode of the Remake's release makes perfect sense (and even not including that Yoshi considers FFVII his personal favourite FF game. ;)

As to when such an event will occur, your guess is as good as mine, but May/June would be a pretty likely time as there are no normal seasonal events usually running at that time (April has the Easter event, July has the Summer event, and August the Rising/FFXIV ARR release anniversary event, so there is a slight gap for such an event - the FFXV event occurred around this particular point in the year). Either way, we'll find out.

Anyway, my personal preference for a hypothetical FFVIIR crossover event with FFXIV would be Cloud and Aeris's outfits, along with weapons of course (we already have FFVII minions on the Mogstation so that's out). Maybe some more FFVII music - the only FFVII tracks currently in the game are the remixes of Gold Saucer and Electric de Chocobo, so maybe an orchestrion roll for that awesome new remix of Still More Fighting? :D As for weapons, these are my picks (copied and pasted from an earlier thread on the same subject):

GLA/PLD: the Enhanced Sword Zack used for most of Crisis Core that seems to be standard SOLDIER weaponry (that Cloud also used), along with a Shinra riot shield labelled 'Shinra Alpha' which was an armour type in FFVII -

(incidentally, certain Shinra trooper enemies actually use such a shield in FFVIIR)

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CNJ/WHM: Aeris's Guard Stick as mentioned, or else her Princess Guard or Umbrella!
THM/BLM: Aeris's Wizard Rod or Striking Staff
LNC/DRG: Cid's Venus Gospel or Mop
PGL/MNK: Tifa's Leather Glove or Premium Heart
MRD/WAR: Cid's Mast Axe or Viper Halberd
ARC/BRD: Cait Sith's Megaphone or Marvellous Cheer (reimagined as a bow with the horn of the megaphone the arrow quiver!), or else Minerva's Bow from Crisis Core
ACN/SMN/SCH: Red XIII's Limited Moon (reimagined as a book, much like how Hope's FFXIII weapon was a 'book' here in FFXIV)
ROG/NIN: Yuffie's Twin Vipers, reimagined as twin blades
MCH: Vincent's Cerberus from Advent Children and Dirge of Cerberus, as the name for both his starting weapon and ultimate weapon are already in the game (Quicksilver is a lvl 50 MCH gun and Death Penalty is the name of one of Merlwyb's pistols)
AST: Barret's Missing Score, believe it or not, reimagined as a star globe (the Missing Score had an angel wing motif on it and the 'score' in the name does suit a card deck)
DRK: NOT Cloud's Buster Sword (as that is already in the game as the lvl 1 and 2 melee DPS Limit Break), but instead Cloud's Hardedge from FFVII, the Ultima Weapon from FFVII, or his 'First Sword' from Advent Children
SAM: NOT Sephiroth's Masamune, as I'm certain SE are carefully keeping that in reserve for later inclusion in the game (given it's a reoccuring weapon throughout the series), so instead, either Cloud's Yoshiyuki or Murasame blades.
RDM: Genesis's rapier from Crisis Core (as the name is unknown perhaps calling it 'Loveless Rapier' or 'Genesis's Rapier'?)
BLU: Aeris's Aurora Rod
GNB: the Velvet Nightmare gunblade Kadaj and the Remnants used in Advent Children
DNC: Yuffie's Conformer, reimagined as a pair of chakra.

These are just my own ideas though so please add your own choices! :D

I would rather they spent time developing content for FFXIV instead of crossover content.

But if they absolutely can't control themselves and have an overwhelming compulsion to take resources away from FFXIV focused content, at least FF7 is still Final Fantasy.

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Originally Posted by CazzT

I would rather they spent time developing content for FFXIV instead of crossover content.

But if they absolutely can't control themselves and have an overwhelming compulsion to take resources away from FFXIV focused content, at least FF7 is still Final Fantasy.

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Crossover content for FFXIV is content for FFXIV, though...

One of the main points of most Final Fantasy games is in the references to previous titles.

It's not like we're struggling to get content that isn't standalone for FFXIV either.

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Originally Posted by Theodric

Crossover content for FFXIV is content for FFXIV, though...

One of the main points of most Final Fantasy games is in the references to previous titles.

It's not like we're struggling to get content that isn't standalone for FFXIV either.

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Crossover content is crossover. It's not Eorzea/Garlemald/Norvrandt. Just because it's content that is IN the game does not mean it is FFXIV content. You know what I mean. *bonks Theodric*

If I'm not mistaken, FFVII remake will have an FFXIV event, then we can expect an FFVII event.

Oh look it's this thread again

I just cannot see SE passing up the opportunity to market their newest big release to the FF14 playerbase. I think it is more likely that the event would be onesided than for it to not exist at all.

I wouldn't even be surprised if the FF14 dev team has already developed the event and items and is just waiting for FF7R's official release to push a patch with them.

If we do get a crossover event, I hope we just fight a robot or a monster instead of Sephiroth. I'm so tired of his *smirks and appears behind you to say cryptic bullshit before disappearing* act. He's as bad as Xehanort to me now.

I don't expect we fight Sepiroth (the primal or an avatar from FFVII). FFXIII it was an avatar of Bahamut (fate), FFXV, it was Garuda. It sounds reasonable to me to expect similar event. Maybe we could also have something different, a side quest related to the Ancient Forest.

Or maybe... some kind of boss that provides Cloud some kind of special limit break.

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Originally Posted by Theodric

Crossover content for FFXIV is content for FFXIV, though...

One of the main points of most Final Fantasy games is in the references to previous titles.

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References aren't the same as crossovers. First is written to function as a new thing within the XIV's setting and lore(which is the standard practice for the series) and the other is ripping characters and designs straight out of another game and shoving them into XIV without much effort to make it feel like part of the world.

For example Crystal Tower in Eorzea isn't the same as Crystal Tower form FFIII - it has its own origin and purpose that's based in one of XIV's ancient civilizations and their lore. Same goes for characters which share names with other games.
On the other hand Noctis from XV event is literally just FFXV Noctis with zero changes whatsoever, pulled from his own game with some crossover magic, isekai-style.

It's okay if people like crossovers, but trying to equate them with regular "Final Fantasy gotta Final Fantasy" references to dismiss those who prefer original lore, is dishonest and annoying.

As for VII - current weapon quest line is a properly done reference - they're using the iconic FFVII enemies while giving them completely new lore that fits XIV and expands upon existing story and concepts.

As much as I want Aerith's dress from Yoshitaka Amano's original artwork of her (it's one of her alternate outfits in Dissidia), I have a greater need for the Wall Market dresses I've seen shots of.

I doubt it'd happen, but it'd be nice to be able to get all of them (yes, even Cloud's for the boys!) - Aerith and Tifa's dresses are just gorgeous, and I'd love it if Aerith's fancy hairstyle would be added in. Maybe even Cloud's pigtails.

I wouldn't expect it anytime soon. Most likely it would be in that gap between the last story patch of this expansion and the next expansion. At least that is what I would do if I was SE to entice some people to keep playing.

I wish the FF8 one was more indepth ngl. i dont see what a ff7 one would bring aside from more black leather outfits or paddle swords.

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Originally Posted by spf1200

Oh look it's this thread again

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Sorry, guy. Not all of us are on the forums 24/7 to see every thread. Most recent one I found discussing it was 7 months ago. And like I said, that was at a time where they had said they didn’t want to interrupt development time on the first instalment, which is now over.

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Originally Posted by MrPresident

Sorry, guy. Not all of us are on the forums 24/7 to see every thread. Most recent one I found discussing it was 7 months ago. And like I said, that was at a time where they had said they didn’t want to interrupt development time on the first instalment, which is now over.

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Did I strike a nerve there? Everything a new game comes out of SE there are 3-4 threads begging for a cross over. The dev team should he focused on making this game its own thing not a junk pile of references

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Originally Posted by spf1200

Did I strike a nerve there? Everything a new game comes out of SE there are 3-4 threads begging for a cross over. The dev team should he focused on making this game its own thing not a junk pile of references

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No nerve struck. I searched for a recent discussion, didn’t find one, so made a post. You seem to be the only one upset about that while everyone else is discussing things just fine.

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Originally Posted by ElazulHP

I wouldn't expect it anytime soon. Most likely it would be in that gap between the last story patch of this expansion and the next expansion. At least that is what I would do if I was SE to entice some people to keep playing.

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How long did it take for NieR to get a crossover since that one artist made that beautiful concept art for weapons and gear on all races?

I believe in the dev diary it said it took them 6 months to make a boss game ready, meaning for the last FF crossover (Being FFXV) there's gonna be a bit of a wait and time taken to make something worth collaborating. And I feel like a mount/glam would be super cheap considering we have SDS Fenrir, Advent Children stuff, and FF7 minions.

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Originally Posted by Gula

How long did it take for NieR to get a crossover since that one artist made that beautiful concept art for weapons and gear on all races?

I believe in the dev diary it said it took them 6 months to make a boss game ready, meaning for the last FF crossover (Being FFXV) there's gonna be a bit of a wait and time taken to make something worth collaborating. And I feel like a mount/glam would be super cheap considering we have SDS Fenrir, Advent Children stuff, and FF7 minions.

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I didn’t actually think of it this way, I just imagined it would be more akin to FFXIII or FFXV collabs. A proper dungeon/raid type crossover would be much better.

Yeah. The event quest will involve time ghosts that go back and stop the Calamity from ever happening.

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Originally Posted by MrPresident

Yoshi originally said no as he didn’t want to detract from their development time while it was in production, which is a fair understandable response. But now it’s (very nearly) out, do you think we could see an event in the future?
If so, what rewards would you like to see? The bike is already the game so would need to be a different mount. Tiny Bronco? Landbuggy? A big dancing moogle?
I hope we do see a crossover in the future, as we had it with XIII and XV once they were released.

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Simply put, the Final Fantasy 7 Remake doesn't need any help promoting itself, so they won't do it. All of the other crossover events, the games themselves benefited from people playing XIV being introduced to them in minor ways; FF7:Remake doesn't need that, Square-enix knows that people's nostalgia will fuel the first release at the very least, but we might get something when part two and three come around and they want to boost sales if people are cooling to the idea of buying a AAA game three times when they only needed to pay that same price tag once for the original game.

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Originally Posted by Limecat

Yeah. The event quest will involve time ghosts that go back and stop the Calamity from ever happening.

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Ugghhh,

I just finished FFVII Remake Ep I last night, and don't get me started on those - that was the only negative aspect of the Remake I saw, a completely unnecessary plot device that had no explanation or reason for being there! It was the only flaw in an otherwise highly polished and shining diamond.

So of course a hypothetical FFVII crossover event in FFXIV would naturally feature those... *rolls eyes*.

Since they did several events related to other games from SE, I wouldn't be surprised they organize some kind of event when the PC version will be released. I don't expect something like NieR corssover, rather some kind of fate and maybe primal as it was for FFXIII and FFXV.

NieR was different because of the glamour and the them that really match a raid. FFVII... we can rather expect some kind of travel across dimensions. What primal? Hum... Shiva or Ramuh (especially Ramuh if they find some way to make something with the Forest of the Ancient. After all this is the place where we can be "lost". It is a good place to change dimension).

If there is; I'm really sick of only getting glams from the male FF characters-- aside from Lightning in the Mog Station; but she's not even a well-written character. (What character in a single FF has been though, recently?) but honestly? I'd rather have had Vanille's Glam or Fangs glam from FF-XIII.
If there is an FF7 cross-over event, there needs to be a Tifa & Aerith Glam including their hairstyles. (I'd also like to see Vincent/Sephiroth/Yuffie. etc.)
Then, maybe Yoshi will consider doing an ff V, VI or VIII cross-over event? With Rinoa/Edea/Selphie/Quistis/Zell & Irvine's Glamours. Heck, maybe another chance at grabbing a car mount- the Red Car Squall drives during the Sorceress Parade? Imagine Ultimecia in FFXIV?
And as for FF VI; just imagine Kekfa actually getting the acknowledgement he deserves- Him breaking out of Sigmascape & Terra enters your world. It would be amazing.
There are better written stories than FF7 that could use a cross-over & would just be more icing on the cake!

So, all in all, if there is an FF7 cross-over event, let's hope Yoshi doesn't snub the female characters in obtaining their glamours or any glamours at all. Yes, glamours make a game just as rewarding as well as a good story.
I think it would be great to see Red-XIII again. He was my absolute favorite character from VII