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@Kusimeka: If they needed extra time to fix up the PC version, they would have delayed the other two versions back until they were ready.. This would still count as a day 1 release. Or they could have just had people working on it concurrently while the other two were still being developed. You know, the same way Activision, EA or Ubisoft does things.

"You say things as if they are fact, when they are not."

Don't use words like 'fact'. I myself didn't use the word. So don't assume everything I say is a proclaimation of immutable fact. I simply assumed you were intelligent enough to know when something stated is fact or not without me needing to explicitly label it such. Would you rather I insult your intelligence by inserting "in my opinion" into every sentence? "The Eiffel tower is in France" is a fact. "Company X did Y because.." or anything with a "because" in it is opinion or speculation, unless it came from the horses mouth. I just automatically assumed people would know this without me needing to tell them. I take most if not all of the things you say as non-fact also, even the parts where you don't disagree with me. I just didn't feel like getting pedantic when your assumptions are obvious.

"but I'm telling you the game couldn't release day 1 on PC without extra work/dev time to ensure it wasn't an extremely basic port."

If you've seen Square's track record with PC ports, just about everything they make is an extremely basic port. FF13 had no graphics options whatsoever, and only ran in 720p. Pressing the Esc key would quit you to desktop without warning, like a DOS game from the 80s. This is their standard and it's as basic as it gets. Sadly, a lot of other Japanese devs are not much better with PC ports.

"Playable on PC does not mean optimized for all different kinds of hardware, operating systems, etc etc, not to mention taking advantage of the platform. I'm a game developer and I know this from experience. Yes, they have the resources and can do that if they want to, for whatever reason they don't and could not release it day 1 without extra effort."

It's not got anything to do with effort. Sorry, in my opinion, It's not got anything to do with effort. If Ubisoft, Acitivision, EA, and other large 3rd party developers can do it and are willing to put in the effort, so should Square Enix if they wanted to. The reason they held it back isn't because they weren't willing to put in effort. It's for the same reason most of their Japanese developed major games don't release on PC day and date: they didn't want to release it on PC because they're afraid of piracy. If they delay the PC version until after the console versions have stop selling, they minimize losses to piracy. Those wanting to play it on PC will have bought it for console already, because they didn't know a PC version would release. In my opinion. (God this sounds so stupid).

"Lastly, you are confused with developed FOR PC and developed WITH PC in mind. The most important thing was ensuring the game ran on PS4/XB1, not PC."

I don't bother with the distinction. It's meaningless for multiplatform titles. If it's playable, it's playable. If it's not for some people, it can be patched later, like all PC games, and like the console versions which were very incomplete at launch. The PS4/XB1 versions are expected to sell more copies so they of course get all the focus early. In my opinion.

You already agreed that they could have released it on PC day 1 if they wanted to. Extra work would be needed, but they didn't have to wait till the PS4 and XB1 versions were finished and ready (I'd argue they still aren't) before they're allowed to start working on the PC version. They could have.. worked on it concurrently like other people do, and maybe they did. In my opinion. As a developer, I don't get how you can't understand this. Tasks don't have to be done one after the other. Separate tasks can be done at the same time if they aren't dependent on one another. I'm not a dev, but this is Project Management 101.

If there's any disagreement it's that you don't think it was worth the effort to do it. I think it was deliberately held back to not take sales away from the console version. If the PC version is available day 1, a bunch more people will pirate the game and not buy the console version. Take away the PC version, and that problem goes away, until they've already sold all the copies they're going to sell on the console. That's how Square cuts the equation. Again, in my opinion.

The insider who revealed the status of the XB and PS4 versions of the game during development is a reliable source. He revealed all of the plot details of the game including all twists and the ending. No one believed him and thought he was a troll, but he turned out to be 100% right about everything, including the expected delay. Without inside access to the game, he can't have known all that. And he was the one saying it was only playable to completion on PC. The PS4 version doesn't last more than 2 hours without crashing, and the Xbox version was crashing soon after loading it up. I don't believe someone would make up stuff like this after revealing a score of factual information about the game. It makes no sense. But you, like all people, are entitled to believe anything that makes you feel better and disbelieve anything that doesn't. In my opinion.