It's clear that Final Fantasy 14's producer and director, Naoki Yoshida, is in it for the love of the game. As reported by Automaton and GamesRadar, in a recent joint interview at the Final Fantasy 14 Fan Festival in Tokyo, Yoshida went so far as to contemplate what would happen to the game in the event of his firing from Square Enix, or even his death.
On the lighter side of those potential futures, Yoshida quipped that if he were ever fired from Square Enix, he'd try to start over from the bottom all over again as a contract developer on Final Fantasy 14. Failing that, Yoshida would be content with a dignified retirement as one of those players who's always complaining about the game to its developers—you know the type. I don't know if I've ever loved a videogame as much as Naoki Yoshida loves Final Fantasy 14.
