Square Enix May Ban You For Posting Unmarked Spoilers of the 26-year-old JRPG, Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined

If you deliberation it's good to stock spoilers of a 26-year-old game, you whitethorn privation to deliberation again aft Square Enix made it wide that anyone willfully spoiling Dragon Quest VII Reimagined whitethorn beryllium "temporarily oregon permanently banned."

According to the company's usage policy, and reported by Automaton, anyone sharing details of the crippled — beryllium it from the demo, the archetypal story, oregon the caller communicative elements successful the remake, which releases adjacent period — indispensable usage spoiler tags. This means players cannot stock images, videos, oregon adjacent livestreams of immoderate gameplay past the Malign Shrine: Throne Room's brag conflict earlier the February 5, 2026 merchandise date.

"No spoilers please," the steadfast stressed. "In bid not to spoil different players' enjoyment, you indispensable people each contented that includes details of large crippled developments with a wide spoiler warning.

"Please refrain from livestreaming oregon posting videos/images of gameplay aft the brag conflict successful the Malign Shrine: Throne Room until February 5 2026."

While that whitethorn dependable just enough, don't hide that the integer deluxe variation provides players with 2 days' aboriginal access, which players and streamers won't beryllium capable to stock their acquisition from earlier the merchandise date. Anyone sharing images oregon videos should besides property copyright to Armor Project, Bird Studio and Square Enix, and nonaccomplishment to adhere to immoderate of these rules whitethorn effect successful impermanent oregon imperishable suspension of your crippled access.

"You indispensable instantly comply with immoderate petition from Square Enix to region Materials from immoderate shared content, careless of whether Square Enix provides a crushed for the request," the announcement adds. "Square Enix reserves the close to necessitate oregon question removal of immoderate contented incorporating the Materials that it deems to beryllium inappropriate successful its sole discretion. If you bash not adhere to these Guidelines, Square Enix may, successful summation to objecting to your usage of the Materials, temporarily oregon permanently suspend you from utilizing the Game."

Dragon Quest VII Reimagined is acceptable to merchandise connected February 5 connected PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and some Nintendo Switch and Switch 2. Announced successful September's Nintendo Direct, it lets you rediscover a communicative of plucky companions brimming with joyousness and heartbreak arsenic you observe the information down wherefore your kingdom is the lone remaining land successful the world. The crippled features a caller creation benignant that blends diorama visuals with Akira Toriyama’s iconic quality designs, arsenic good arsenic a streamlined main story.

"While galore aspects of Dragon Quest VII Reimagined are inactive a mystery, each of those peculiar small qualities and personalities that person kept this bid going for astir 40 years are inactive connected display," we wrote successful IGN's Dragon Quest VII Reimagined preview, shared towards the extremity of past year.

"I americium anxious to spot each that this caller mentation has to connection and conscionable however the removal of immoderate communicative beats and summation of caller ones impacts the wide campaign, on with what the caller gameplay mechanics bring to the Dragon Quest DNA. 2026 whitethorn conscionable beryllium the twelvemonth that the remainder of the satellite truly sees what has made Dragon Quest VII the best-selling introduction implicit successful Japan, giving it the signifier to yet shine."

Vikki Blake is simply a newsman for IGN, arsenic good arsenic a critic, columnist, and advisor with 15+ years acquisition moving with immoderate of the world's biggest gaming sites and publications. She's besides a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her astatine BlueSky.