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