Pink Fire Pointer Square Enix CEO Yoichi Wada says "The Final Fantasy brand has been greatly damaged."

Square Enix CEO Yoichi Wada says "The Final Fantasy brand has been greatly damaged."


As reported at Sponichi, At a Tokyo press conference Square Enix CEO Yoichi Wada said of the problematic Final Fantasy XIV, "The Final Fantasy brand has been greatly damaged."

At a Tokyo press conference today, Square Enix CEO Yoichi Wada fielded a few questions about the Square Enix's online plans for its two biggest Japan-developed franchises, Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy.

Square Enix has been implementing fixes for FFXIV since earlier this year.
Said Wada about the fixes, "We will continue with our reform work, which basically amounts to fully redoing the game, and hope to revive the FFXIV that should have been released."

Sponichi's report from the press conference did not say if the PS3 version was brought up during the questions.


Wada also said about the Dragon Quest X, which was recently revealed to be an online title, concerned future developments for the series. "We're not making them all online," said Wada of future titles in the DQ series. "We'll continue with a variety of developments, offline included."

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