The color yellow that divides gamers

With the recently released

the veteran franchise from the production company Square Enix, with more than 100 million units sold in its multiple installments, seeks to maintain its love affair with the

community with this role-playing game.

This is why the appearance of a playable demo, the equivalent of the

in the cinema sector, for the Playstation 5 console generated considerable expectation weeks before its launch at the end of February that, for some, turned into indignation.

Those responsible?

Some yellow paint marks located in specific areas.

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

is an open-world video game in which players venture through huge environments in search of adventure and following a story line.

With current technological development, the environments in which the characters move are increasingly more immersive, more detailed and more realistic, but it is still expensive and impractical for all of them to be practicable.

Thus, a video game like

can, for example, recreate a cliff around a beach in all kinds of detail, but it will only have a practicable area so that the characters can climb it.

Faced with the prospect that there are players who will get bored of spending hours looking for those climbable stones in an immense digital scree, the developers decided to mark these types of elements with yellow paint for the sake of a more fluid gaming experience.

For the most gamers, yellow paint, the use of which is increasingly common in video games, spoils the immersive experience and represents a concession that goes against the essence of the game itself.

Damion Schubert, creative director of Capcom, defended the use of these signals in the recent

of his

“Trying to open 30 doors to find the only one we can go through breaks the immersion because the boring nature of the experience makes the simulation is unsuccessful.”

It is estimated that the number of video game players has increased by more than 1 billion in 10 years, reaching 3.32 billion worldwide.

This means that the big

have long ceased to be the preserve of the most die-hard

, and are open to a diverse audience that puts entertainment before testing their skills in an overly demanding way.

Elena Flores is editorial director and production director at Raiser Games and points out another factor: new players are increasingly younger, the majority belonging to generations Z and Alpha, with completely different gaming habits and platforms.

This means that, to adapt, the sector carries out an exercise in empathy.

“The video game has become a transversal cultural tool, generation Z already spends more time playing than on social networks, it is the space where they interact virtually,” she points out.

This requires understanding and adapting to new codes.

“We have experienced the growth of the industry seeking technical excellence, but they do not consider this in their gaming experience,” highlights Flores, who estimates that the potential spending power is 360,000 million dollars of spending with generation Z. , which forces the video game sector to take this young audience into account.

“For every person who is bothered by yellow paint, there are another 500 who don't think so,” he highlights, and concludes that, in his opinion, “the traditional video game is not going to disappear, but there will have to be a change.” necessary paradigm.”