It's also very curious why Square Enix decided to do this in the first place, years after the game released. It is hard to say whether or not that is actually the case, as there isn't a whole lot else the update did besides add the DRM. In a post on the Steam forums, the publisher didn't give any reasoning for the initial update, though couched it as kind of an unintended consequence rather than an intentional decision. Neither Final Fantasy X nor Final Fantasy X-2 had this in the prior three years they had been on Steam.Īfter some outcry, Square has very quietly acknowledged the problem and will fix it in the next update. The update seemed to mostly, or even solely, add an always-online digital rights management requirement to the game which forced the title to phone home to servers for players to play it. A few days ago, Final Fantasy X/X-2 owners on Steam were surprised to find an update come in for the now three-year-old PC version of the game.
