The ending of the recent remake of Final Fantasy VII was the cause of heated discussions in the community of fans of the game. This happened against the background of the fact that the developers decided not to follow in the footsteps of the original and made various changes to the end of game.
Source: Uniongames.net
As it usually happens, gamers who managed to be one of the first to pass the novelty, hastened to post various video clips from the game on YouTube, including the ending. And Square Enix is not happy about it. She sent the popular youtuber Shirrako an alert warning of a violation of the"license to use materials".
In particular, the company reminded that the ending itself can not be recorded using the standard functionality of the PlayStation 4, because at the time of its display, the recording function is blocked.
The ending of the game is protected by a "license to use materials", which means that if recording from the PlayStation 4 is not possible, then the episode can not be filmed and uploaded to YouTube and other methods, too. Square Enix requires violators to remove the demonstration of endings on YouTube and threatens that it will use all the tools available to it for proceedings. The last resort is to bring them to justice through the courts.
Blogger Shirrako, who boasts 1 million subscribers, expressed outrage at the publisher's approach and called it "unacceptable", pointing out that users should have the right to do anything with the product they bought. He no longer plans to support Square Enix on his channel and promises to refuse to publish videos for any of the company's games.
Other YouTube channels have already started hiding the ending video or deleting it altogether.
Read our review of the Final Fantasy VII remake here.