SLFFVII

SLFFVII - Midgar Chronicles is a fully graphical and immersive fanmade Final Fantasy VII roleplay experience and community built within Second Life, a 3D metaverse with powerful build, customization and scripting tools.
The community is set in a real time moving timeline set within the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII.
Established since 2007 and hosted on Second Life’s Midgar simulation, SLFFVII features recreated iconic game locations and characters and a customizable combat and materia magic system to allow a multiplayer Final Fantasy VII game experience.
History
The community began in November 2006 when a Second Life resident under the name of Ramsus Wake created a very small Final Fantasy 7 ShinRa Roleplay set in a small and non-canon ShinRa Outpost in the Corruption sim of Second Life. This small RP was then discovered by residents Darshe Aliev and Floyd Gilmour, coming off the back of their Fullmetal Alchemist RP and seeing potential for a much larger Final Fantasy VII RP with both ShinRa and AVALANCHE factions and canon locations from the game, the two of them set out to obtain more land to expand this idea with Ramsus Wake.
Floyd Gilmour funded the expansion project and Darshe Aliev took over as the head builder of the project, working together to create the Sector 7 Slums in January 2007, the Sector 6 Playground and Aerith’s Church from the game, the RP soon became a massive hit and it became clear that the current resources could not sustain the level of activity and growth the roleplay was receiving.
By the end of January 2007, Floyd Gilmour outlined a plan for purchasing a larger sim capable of supporting a complete ShinRa Tower, a sector of the Upper Plate and a larger slums, this plan included surrendering the individual power of the founding members to form Council of equals which included Builders, Investors and members of the RP Community to act as Game Masters over this new Midgar roleplay.
The full Midgar sim was opened to the public on March 13, 2007, and quickly became a success after being featured on the online video game website Joystiq. The roleplay has remained in operation ever since launch, making it noteworthy as one of the longest running roleplay environments in Second Life.
Legality and Controversy
The management of SLFFVII state that the roleplay project is entirely non-profit and that they do not make any financial profit off the Final Fantasy VII copyright, arguing that their use of the games imagery is fanart creations and therefore fair use, though this logic has been challenged by legal bloggers.
It was rumoured in 2007 that Square-Enix had officially sanctioned the Roleplay, however an investigation by online publication New World Notes discovered that this was untrue, but that attempts to seek permission by Square-Enix had taken place.

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