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In this extensive interview, the producer of Final Fantasy XIV, Naoki Yoshida brought onto the project to try and rescue it from a disastrous launch details the work ahead of him and explains why he thinks he can save the game.]
Final Fantasy XIV launched in September to massive problems. The hotly-anticipated MMO quickly became a community nightmare, with the company repeatedly extending the free play period beyond the initial 30 days post-launch and eventually removing producer and Square Enix veteran Hiromichi Tanaka from the project and replacing him with Naoki Yoshida.
The game has not been canned though problems are so drastic that the release of the PlayStation 3 version of the game has been seemingly indefinitely postponed and the company is working with its release partner in China, Shanda, to improve the game before it considers releasing it in that territory.
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