I'm quitting this game like 4 days before the 2.5 Year Anniversary. I'm a day 1 player and I maybe missed like 2 days of daily log in. I love the FF7 universe and characters, but this game is not it.

All of the events boil down to "fight this boss" now do it again everyday till the event is over. I'm not even joking. You fight one boss around 4 times when a new event starts. Then there's a EX - EX 2 - EX3 version. After that, there's a daily fight you do with that same boss but at a low level that doesn't cost stamina that you can do to get more event currency. You can do a new event in like 30min if even that, you're legit killing this boss in like 8 seconds or less. Then just do the one free fight everyday till the event is over or till you get all the rewards from the event.

The story for the events are for the most part typically light hearted and separated from the actually FF7 story. I mean they're fine for what they are. But HUGE events that they marketed, that everyone looked forward to are garbage. Advent Children was AWFUL, it was literally just watch clips from the movie as the same crappy resolution you've seen before, NieR event didnt even have a story, and the new Dirge of Cerberus (as my gf said) is the same watching the clips from the game at the same crappy resolution. The whole hook of the events was just spending money to get the costumes to see your favorite characters in.

Escalation is alright, its just fighting the same boss AGAIN (usually the most recent event boss that you already fought in the regular event), multiple times at different levels. (1-30) Though the rewards are much better, the fight can also get extremely hard without certain weapons. 5* materias, end game weapon enhancement materials, end game materials to make 5* materia and a currency that lets you trade it in for tickets essentially.

Speaking of rewards from events, the longer you play, the worse they are. This kinda goes for any currency that needs to be spent weekly or monthly otherwise you cap out. You legit just don't need ANYTHING from the event rewards, co op rewards, etc. Other than the free tickets, weapon memories, and free weapons the rewards are just there to spend the currency on. (FYI the free weapons are fully boosted to +10 but they are terrible in terms of damage and utility, they making decent sub weapons though.) You end up getting crap you don't need or want because you don't want to cap out.

Co-op is just a awful experience and always has been. There's regular co op, event co op, and escalation co op, the last one I haven't done. Regular Co op is DEAD, you do it once to get the free gems and that's it. Event co op really only pops off with the most recent event, if you're trying to farm co op in a older event it'll be dead. Co op has you fight the boss just like you would regularly 3 different times, and then there's a EX. 2/3 players can be AFK, and the other person can just 1 hit the boss. After that you just farm co op for co op coins+event currency. If you rock current weapon/costumes from the banner you get a boost in rewards, you get one free weapon that'll give a 20% but it goes up to 300%. People will not have the free 20% boost on co op, so you end up having to leave and requeue. (Yes, it stacks with others. Someone can have 20%, another 200%, for 220% for everyone)

There's also just dead content in the game. Criterion and Crisis dungeons haven't been updated in FOREVER. They are just sitting there along with Character Quests. Which is basically just some back story on main characters but they only got Cloud, Barret, Tifa and Aerith. Again regular Co op also goes here.

There's still stuff I didn't talk about like Guild Battles, Trial of the Summons, Battle Towers, Chocobos, HIghwind etc. My MAIN gripe with the game is the repetitive content dressed up as new content. I'm not saying I have the solution but fighting the same boss 5 or so times every event is so damn boring. And that is the core of this game, is repeated boss fights for rewards I dont really even need or want. No mini games, no gold saucer, no queens blood, none of that.

On another note, I think the fact that I know the FF7 story, holds the game back quite hard. Typically people look forward to new story in gacha games, but here "most" of us already know what happens. There is technically new story for Sephiroth, how he came to be, which is cool. But at that point just watch it on YT. The story missions are all insanely low level so everyone can do it anyway so you're not missing out on anything.

Warning: Microtransaction infested mobile app![en.wikipedia.org]

This mobile app is not free, it's infested with a nasty mobile-style in-app cash shop. You will be expected to hand over cash to the "developers" just for playing the game.

"FINAL FANTASY VII EVER CRISIS" is just one of thousands of non-free mobile apps polluting the "free" category on Steam, and it carries hidden, toxic monetization.

It's a shame to see AAA businesses like Square falling so low and resorting to disgusting mobile app loot box gambling, but here we are. This is not a Final Fantasy RPG. This is a garbage iPhone screen tapper rolling casino, wearing the dead skin of Final Fantasy 7 like something out of Silence of the Lambs.

This is a purely superficial game experience designed for iPhones. The graphics and the mechanics are bottom-tier... imagine the gaudy, cheap plastic casing on the slot machines at the casino. That's what this is, a cheap flashy veneer on a shallow non-game with one single purpose... to get your money through nasty mobile app microtransactions.

Putting that toxic mobile app monetisation aside... this is a mobile app. I didn't spend thousands on a gaming PC so I could pretend it's an iPhone, and I don't think you did either... this kind of mobile app has no place in your Steam library.

Like most mobile-tier cash grabs, you're forced to sign a highly questionable yet legally unenforceable End User License Agreement... for a lowest possible quality mobile app, this is clearly intended to strip away your consumer rights and compromise your privacy. This agreement includes questionable requirements that may attempt to revoke consumer law protections and consumer rights that gamers expect to have, which is a major red flag. Mobile "developers" need to realize they are here to serve gamers, not control them. I let my cat walk over the keys during the EULA prompt, which solved the issue for me.

Now onto pricing and value.

Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game collector count, should you bother adding this to your library and downloading it? What's the verdict?

Definitely not... this is just an unethical cash grab. Avoid at all costs.

Downloads 650 MB.
Boot up the game.
“Alright, not bad.”

Immediately needs another 2.4 GB
“Hm, okay… that’s still fine”

Played through the tutorial.
Boring
Skipped it

“Please download another 41.5 GB.”
Very nice.
Feels exactly like Call of Duty making you download half the game after you already launched it.

And on top of that, looks like a pokemon/gacha mobile game, except the progress feels slow and pretty boring