TY - JOUR
TI - Creating Climate Conscious Players: Final Fantasy VII’s Ecoactivist Fan Communities
AU - Barton, Andrew
TI - Creating Climate Conscious Players: Final Fantasy VII’s Ecoactivist Fan Communities
AB - 
	This paper examines the ecocritical message espoused by characters in Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy VII Remake and uses affect theory to better understand fan response to these beliefs. From there, I note the publishing company, Square-Enix, recently declared interest in pursuing NFT technology as a potential revenue stream despite the environmental concerns this technology brings, which resembles the villainous organization Shinra in these games. Fan response Square-Enix’s NFT projects indicates how fans may identify with and absorb the ideologies of characters in video games, even when that ideology sets the fans in opposition with the companies behind the original game(s).
VL - 2022
IS - Numer 4 (54) Playing While the World Burns: Games in a Time of Crisis
PY - 2022
SN - 1895-975X
C1 - 2084-3860
SP - 621
EP - 633
DO - 10.4467/20843860PK.22.041.17095
UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/przeglad-kulturoznawczy/artykul/creating-climate-conscious-players-final-fantasy-viis-ecoactivist-fan-communities
KW - Final Fantasy VII
KW - Final Fantasy VII Remake
KW - NFT
KW - affect theory
KW - game studies
KW - video games
KW - Square-Enix
KW - ecocriticism
KW - fan response
KW - fan theory