Legit PC Players Can’t Play Final Fantasy 7 Remake Offline After Epic Games Store Goes Down

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Amazon servers are hit with another outage today, and it has affected several huge services like Slack, Asana, and Imgur. Unfortunately, some Epic Games Store users were also affected, which lead to some finding out the hard way that they cannot access several games in their library regardless of whether its single- or multiplayer, including the recently released Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade.

As PC players are well aware, Final Fantasy 7 Remake has not gone over well, with Digital Foundry calling the PC port “terrible.” Now, it appears that it has even worse things going for it, as it appears that you cannot play the game outside of launching it from the Epic Games launcher, which is impossible if you’re offline or the servers are down.

The issue was brought up by a user on Twitter, where they shared a screenshot of them getting booted out of the game after trying to access it directly rather than from the Epic Games Launcher:

The ensuing thread has people trying to figure out a fix, but at the time of writing it would appear that there are no solutions to playing Final Fantasy 7 Remake offline on PC – unless of course if you pirated it.

With what is now a recurring theme for subpar PC ports, it would appear that players who pirate the game are getting the superior experience over players who forked over the USD 70, as they can easily play it offline without DRM and with a broader range of mods available to have a better overall gaming experience.

You can check the availability of AWS for the Epic Games Store here. At the time of writing, it appears that the server outages are now fixed, although it’s unsure if there are no more lingering issues and if PC players can now go back to playing Final Fantasy 7 Remake on the platform.

In case you missed it, check out our review of Final Fantasy 7 Remake here.

Thanks, Resetera !

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Jon
Jon
2 years ago

I pirated it lol

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