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Both Final Fantasy VII and VIII have been hiding behind the scenes on Steam for months, but it’s highly unlikely the pair will ever be made available for public download.
The versions currently ‘on’ Steam are PC ports published by Eidos back in 1998 and 2000. As Square Enix has since bought Eidos, however, this means the code for both games is now back in their hands.
RPG Site made the discovery after doing some digging around in Steam’s registry. This is something anybody with a Steam account can do, if they download the registry toolkit.
The site has a detailed account of how to go about this, should anybody be interested in doing so.
RPG Site has also learnt that the code for both games has been tampered with since their original releases – specifically that they’ve been added to in order to run on modern OS.
Sadly, it doesn’t look like either will be getting a release. According to sources of RPG Site, the game’s are “extremely temperamental in all modern operating systems and often crash to desktop.”
The files haven’t been updated since early 2010, indicating that Square Enix has no plans to do anything with them.
This isn’t the only Final Fantasy project having a difficult time, either – VideoGamer.com discovered that Final Fantasy XII spin-off Fortress had been officially suspended at this year’s E3.
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