Final Fantasy XV won’t be out for another week, but video game stores across the world are selling copies to anyone who asks. In other words, it’s time to watch out for spoilers.
Over the weekend, various gamers reported buying early copies of FFXV from stores breaking street date in Peru, Saudi Arabia and various parts of Europe. There’s no doubt that list will grow as the week continues. If you’ve been waiting for the 15th Final Fantasy game for a decade or even just since it was re-revealed at E3 2013, it’d be a real bummer to accidentally see parts of the ending in a headline on YouTube. So be careful.
Really, you shouldn’t watch the trailers, either — especially the recent Judgement Demo trailer that Square Enix put out in Japan last week. They have been showing way too much of the game.
Yesterday, FFXV director Hajime Tabata put out a statement about the leaks (h/t Siliconera):
We are nearing the release date of November 29. I’m wishing from the bottom of my heart that everyone will get to enjoy the game with a fresh new feeling. However, we’ve confirmed that some packages of Final Fantasy XV have been released around some parts of the world, with gameplay videos being uploaded to the Internet. This may be inevitable due to regional circumstances, but it’s something we regret very much.
It’s our big goal to have everyone enjoy the story of Final Fantasy XV and discover its surprises through the simultaneous global release. There are likely other spoiler videos and such circulating out there that we had not expected, so for those of you looking forward to Final Fantasy XV, we hope that you’ll be careful.
We are doing everything we can to prevent the circulation of the spoiler videos. For those of you that received the game earlier, please keep those who’ve waited a long time for the game in consideration. In order to meet the best possible release date with everybody, we ask for your understanding and cooperation.
We’ll have our review of Final Fantasy XV up next week.
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6 responses to “Final Fantasy XV Is Leaking Everywhere”
Conan O’Brien’s time with the game tells you everything you need to know.
I want to play this, but I also don’t want to play this. The conflict is strong within this one…
I’m of a similar disposition. I barely got into 13 before just stopping. I play these games for story and fun mechanics and hated both. Skipped the two sequels so I decided to give this one a shot (mostly because I was buying jackbox party pack 3 and there was a spend $100 get $15 on psn.) I hope it’s got a good story and some fun side stuff.
So strange that my favorite jrpg experiences have been on portable consoles since the end of the ps2 era.
From all the previews and hand-on reporting, the game sounds boring as fuck.
I’m really hoping its going to be great and that Square are just mindbogglingly atrocious at marketing, previews and PR. That Platinum demo… christ… way to sell your game being a complete trainwreck in both gameplay and performance.
This is what i’m afraid of. I’ll put up with awesome hair for only so long before I start looking for some meat in my combat.