Ever since Square Enix showed off their Final Fantasy VII tech demo in 2005, fans have been clamoring for a remake of this classic JRPG. For about a decade, Square Enix has remained silent on the subject of a Final Fantasy VII remake. However, at E3 2015, Square Enix finally revealed what JRPG fans had been awaiting for a decade: a high definition remake of the original Final Fantasy VII story for PlayStation 4.

Needless to say that gamers, myself included, were absolutely ecstatic. We thought that what could never happen had happened, and Square Enix had finally listened to the patient fans who had catapulted their brand and their company to international renown.

But just as quickly as the dream of millions of Final Fantasy fans was realized, it was horribly tarnished. A press release published on December 6th, 2015 states: "[the] FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE will be told across a multi-part series, with each entry providing its own unique experience".

FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE will not be sold as a complete title, but carved up into "parts" and sold piecemeal. Current trends in the video game industry strongly suggest that the total cost of all of these "parts" will exceed that of a typical, "complete" AAA title, and certainly much more than the original FFVII cost almost 20 years ago regardless of how one adjusts for inflation.

This cannot be tolerated. Gamers have been waiting a decade for a remake of Final Fantasy VII and it should be within the rights of those fans to expect that a complete game as the name REMAKE indicates. Despite the exploitative practices employed by many video game publishers in the industry today, there is no excuse for the remake of a single classic game to be "serialized" except for pure avarice on the part of executives at Square Enix.

Some people reading this may not be fans of Final Fantasy VII or JRPGs in general, but even if you are not you should be deeply concerned by these circumstances.

If this is allowed to happen to the fans of one of the most popular JRPGs of all time, it will exacerbate a trend where corporate executives are allowed to impose unreasonable prices on consumers and trample the artistic vision of employees all in the name of achieving maximum profit. This promotes the practice of releasing incomplete products then charging for additional content or features that should have been included in the first place. It promotes dishonest, never-ending "crowdfunding" of serialized products which take years to see completion, or are never completed at all. If you are a gamer, and you allow Final Fantasy VII Remake to come to market as a series of "installments", you are aiding and promoting your own eventual exploitation.

Sign this petition and let Square Enix know that you want a complete Final Fantasy VII Remake. We need to put our foot down and tell the games industry that we will not let them walk all over us while expecting us to buy inferior, overpriced, incomplete products.