Seems a big reason for the extra 2-3 years needed for Final Fantasy VII Remake is due to Square Enix recently making big changes to the project.
More in-house for development work and supposedly dropped CyberConnect2 studio who was helping work on the project.
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Evidently Noaki Hamaguchi, who worked on Lightning Returns as a programmer and was the lead for Mobius Final Fantasy, is now leading the Remake.
As of this past week Hamaguchi is aggressively seeking effects designers, a programmer, and battle and level planners to help work on the project, and while development "was" focusing on external help, now Square Enix is "controlling everything," which will lead to more of a massive scale and allegedly increase the quality of the game.
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