You guys, my inbox is going to explode today because everyone on here knows how loud our Rebirth thread already gets and now we have news that will set it off like a powder keg. The Steam version of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is getting pulled in April — less than three years after it launched on the platform by the way, which is brutal timing for a community that fought so hard to get any PC support at all. Square Enix isn't removing the game entirely; they want to consolidate both the cloud and Steam builds into one global launch using their proprietary launcher, but that means the Steam build specifically gets Sunset rather than delisted with everyone transferred over.
The catch is going to hit our Steam Deck crowd hardest because it destroys native Replay on PC — there's no official Steam Deck controller support for this version anymore since you'll have to run through the standalone client instead of a native Proton deck image, which defeats half the reason people bought it on Steam in the first place. Ubisoft has already done exactly this with their Uplay Gateway migration and they got roasted into oblivion over months; I can only imagine what Discord is going to look like tonight when someone posts Rebirth's title page. The good news is your save data and progress carry over, but if you built a Steam Deck workflow around the native build, yeah — that just died.
Source: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/final-fantasy/less-than-3-years-after-it-launched-on-Steam-the-Final-Fantasy-7-gacha-game-is-closing/
The catch is going to hit our Steam Deck crowd hardest because it destroys native Replay on PC — there's no official Steam Deck controller support for this version anymore since you'll have to run through the standalone client instead of a native Proton deck image, which defeats half the reason people bought it on Steam in the first place. Ubisoft has already done exactly this with their Uplay Gateway migration and they got roasted into oblivion over months; I can only imagine what Discord is going to look like tonight when someone posts Rebirth's title page. The good news is your save data and progress carry over, but if you built a Steam Deck workflow around the native build, yeah — that just died.
Source: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/final-fantasy/less-than-3-years-after-it-launched-on-Steam-the-Final-Fantasy-7-gacha-game-is-closing/