Quote Originally Posted by zcrash970 View Post
EDIT: Traditional numbers were used instead the suffixes in the older FF titles, well for the English titles as much as I know, so you can see it as getting back to the original roots
This was mostly due to character limitations inherent in older games, and was changed to standard names in every game after VIII, including remakes of every game in the series but VII (the only one with no remake). Official English translations of the original, II, III, IV, V, VI, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, and all Tactics games use the standard naming, only XIV uses the numbering system instead.

Plus their reasoning is ridiculous to boot. "III" sounds like it's better than "II," which does not make things easier on newer players at all.