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No it's not lol. Not even close.

It means nothing.

Look man, if you want to live in gloom and doom and just prophisize the end of FFXI, be my guest. But all you have is a doomsday hypothesis that is not based in fact. You are in...

Source?
"One is missing for some reason."
OH NOES. THEY MUST BE GONE AND WE MUST BE DOWN A MAN oh wait you didn't actually say that? o.O
Because the current leader is passing his role down to a...

We do? List them.

I don't really think you can infer much of anything one way or the other from that. It is literally just a passing of the torch. It doesn't mean updates are suddenly going to stop nor does it mean...

Show me the proof that someone is leaving and not being replaced. It's a running theme in your posts that you make claims without backing them up.

All you have is your opinion that people don't...

That's your opinion. Unfortunately the world doesn't agree with you.


The number of staff isn't changing.

No it isn't, and people who do a job they care about know when they're not able to do it as well as they could when they were younger.

I don't think you're old enough to really understand this....

What sort of insider info do you have to suggest that he isn't retiring willingly?


I don't think this really has anything to do with Matsui himself and everything to do with how much SE is...

Someone else will obviously step in to fill their original role, because it's an essential role.

By definition, if someone is planning to retire they're planning to stop working. It's a thing that happens when people get older.

it means someone is replacing someone else.

It really isn't important. Whenever the team needs support to accomplish something they go through the head of their division, which is Naoki Yoshida...

I knew people were reading too far into it!

That depends entirely on how they respond to a decline in popularity or if they make a FFXVII Online. But I suspect after what happened with 11 and 14 they'll think twice about doing something like...

I'm quite sure hes talking about a generaiton shift of people, not some huge good (or bad) thing happening to the game.

Trust me you're all better off not speculating.