Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director asks modders to avoid making anything 'offensive or inappropriate,' Final Fantasy 7 modding community says 'yeah sure'
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is coming to PC in January, and you know what that means: nude mods. Game director Naoki Hamaguchi would really prefer if you didn't do that, though, saying in an interview with Epic Games that he hopes everyone will keep it clean.
There's a whole host of mods available for the Final Fantasy 7 Remake—we've got a roundup of some good ones, if you're in the market—and it's fair to assume that we'll see the same with Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth. Square Enix currently has no plans to offer official mod support, Hamaguchi said, but is happy (or at least willing) to let it happen. Just, y'know, mind your manners.
«We respect the creativity of the modding community and welcome their creations,» Hamaguchi said. «Though we ask modders not to create or install anything offensive or inappropriate.»
This is of course a statement that, to put it mildly, is open to interpretation. Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is a game that seems to lean pretty heavily into the whole «swimsuit edition» thing, after all, and while that's still a good distance from full frontal nudity, going the full monty is hardly unusual in videogames these days, even without the magic of mods. I get an eyeful of Mini-V every time I change outfits in Cyberpunk 2077, and you will recall that one of the most pressing pre-release questions about Dragon Age: The Veilguard was whether or not we'd see any wang.
The Final Fantasy 7 community, to its credit, is responding exactly as you'd expect:
One redditor said Hamaguchi's request «is like asking the sky not to be blue.» Another wrote, «If someone doesn’t put a massive hog on Cait so when it jumps it slaps the ground then the mod community is over.»
«First mods are always about TAA, but once the collective post nut clarity begins to settle in, you start to see some actual useful and quality-of-life-improvement type of mods,» a third redditor predicted. «But TAA first.» Presumably they're not referring to temporal anti-aliasing.
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