Final Fantasy XV’s lead programmer Kentaro Yasui leaves Square Enix

SegmentNext - "Final Fantasy XV’s main programmer has left Square Enix."

[TheLyonKing]

I hope he enjoys whatever he does next. This won't affect development of 15 as it's in full swing someone just steps up and becomes lead, it's just like any other business.

[ShugaCane]

Leaving the job of lead programmer of game as huge as this one to go work on a mobile game says a lot on both Square Enix and FFXV'state. It probably won't affect the development, but that news is still worrying in my opinion.

[vishmarx]

square enix is a whale and one employ less wont affect them. though this speaks volumes of the work environment surrounding ff xv and its delay.

[TheLyonKing]

He may not have enjoyed the stress of working at a huge organization, its why I quit my job and am now working for a smaller oil and gas group.

Like I said I wish him best, I am sure someone else will take the reins and do a fine job.

[guitarded77]

They have a deep team of programmers. Leads take all the input (no pun intended, I hate puns) from the team and together they make the necessary changes, or gameplan to accomplish the given job. TheLyonKing is right... they will probably promote from within the team and keep trucking. It's like trading a basketball player mid-season. It isn't necessarily good or bad. Only the development team knows how big or small the change is.

[UltimateMaster]

Delayed until PS7. lol.
Hope we get it this gen.

[Aquariusgamer]

Maybe he got mad about the tomb raider xbox deal and quit, hahaha!

aie havu to baiyu crapu exuboks to pray with mai western waifu???

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

/commits sudoku

[KwietStorm_BLM]

Development of XV has been in "full swing" for how long now?

[Irishguy95]

2012? Since development on Ps4 began, was it not? Not that long anyhow.

Either way, main programmer leaving is huge. Any issues arise SE need him to come back in and fix them as another programmer stepping in can be a difficult task

[Panthers]

Even after the re-reveal and the renaming of this game, I still consider this vaporware. And I will until it is in my PS4

[PickAShoe]

2006

[MuhammadJA]

I can see it now. The game will be a flop to some people and they'll blame this lead programmer.

[breakpad]

i ve lost any hope for this game ..first it takes years to complete , from exclusive compromised and went multiplatform and now key developers go away ...Square became a crappy company ... sell the rights of FF VII to Sony at least so you dont screw up a possible remake

[sssb]

i think he sick of SE policy, project like FF Versus 13 or 15 toke 8 years and still not released this the biggest joke i ever heard. main programmer its impotent guy, he is the key of how games program should run.
wish good luck for that person.

[Lannister]

lol

[Deadpool616]

Kentaro Yasui was the main programmer for Kingdom Hearts/Kingdom Hearts II. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm...

That's a pretty big fish to lose Square Enix.

[DEATHxTHExKIDx]

I pray this game comes out within 2015. It is my most anticipated next gen game.

[persona4chie]

SON OF A BITCH!!!!!

[Deadpool616]

I imagined this when I read your comment. http://youtu.be/qXgB3ZCHtlA

[persona4chie]

Rofl

[Unlimax]

Something really fishy happening in Square Enix recently ?
Yoshihisa Hashimoto also leave SE last month !

[tigertron]

Jumping off the ship before it sinks.

[Nekroo91]

With games like KH3, FFXV, Sleeping Dogs sequel and Tomb raider it will take some time before the ship sinks.

[tiffac008]

Not sinking just stinking. lol! xD

[goldwyncq]

Delay confirmed.

[Tetsujin]

Although I agree with what you're saying, it's hard to delay a game with no release date.

OT
Either the game is "complete" and waiting on a release date which he then decided to move on, or someone REALLY f-ed up and he decided to work somewhere else.

[GenericNameHere]

FFXV is such a giant mess.

[BABY-JEDI]

The pressure must have been too much ensuring those Final Fantasy hairstyles remain perfect
;..(

[RDF]

I think he left because they told him to put Lightning in it........

[PickAShoe]

lmao

[qwerty676]

Wonder whats happening over at Square. Cant be good.

[trickman888]

We are doomed

[muttsurini]

Number 13 was a really bad number they should had skip 13 and jump to 15, the disaster came when ff13 started.

[hot4play]

Why am I not surprised? Probably internal company politics. This is Square Enix....

Like what @tigertron above said; SquareEnix is a sinking ship

[Roccetarius]

This is honestly not that surprising, since the management at Squeenix had trouble with adapting to HD. More people are probably going to leave, in order to have free hands to do whatever.

[worldwidegaming]

Like rats from a sinking ship...the business model of the entire company is not what it used to be.
Next stop Davy Jones locker (kingdoms heart day one DLC)

[Inception]

I wish Yasui good luck with his new company. But damn! this is really bad.

If SE doesn't give any release date this TGS than i think it's time to let it go and say bye-bye for FF. I surely will not forget my memorable experience playing FF this past 18 years.

Anyway, there are other JRPG's such as SMT/Persona, Tales, Ys, Atelier, Disgaea, Fire Emblem, or Etrian Oddyssey that still maintain their high quality status without took forever to get on our hands. I think it's time for JRPG fans in the west to give more support for those games.

[Acquiescence]

This game is never going to come out is it.

[DiscoKid]

To be fair, it isn't like they are losing a lead artist to where they need to worry about artistic consistency. Programming is mathematical; it doesn't require creativity or imagination as much as art, so the position can easily be filled again.

[rextraordinaire]

I'd be sad if it was not 8 years in the making.

But now all I can think of is "lol".

lmao. even.

[Hozi]

When I get news about a game that's long overdue and anticipated such as this one....this is not the kinda news I need/want to hear.

[feraldrgn]

Good luck to the fella.
Now both the lead programmer & the Luminous Studio head who helped create the engine have left, it either means the projects that use it are finished or that there are serious issues at the company.

[Whirlwind_Fanfare_08]

I really hope that this doesn't affect the release of the game.