{"id":13416,"date":"2022-06-16T15:14:08","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T06:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=13416"},"modified":"2022-06-16T15:15:40","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T06:15:40","slug":"20220616-13416","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20220616-13416\/","title":{"rendered":"Hironobu Sakaguchi is building a \u201cSquare Developer\u2019s Office\u201d within FFXIV that will contain messages from 60 staff members"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Written by. Nick Mosier based on the <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/articles\/newsjp\/20220616-206983\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">original Japanese article<\/a> (original article&#8217;s publication date: 2022-06-16 13:20<\/em> <em>JST)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><br><em>Final Fantasy<\/em> series creator <strong>Hironobu Sakaguchi<\/strong> is creating an interesting Free Company house within <em><strong>Final Fantasy XIV<\/strong> (<strong>FFXIV<\/strong>)<\/em>. Sakaguchi took to his personal Twitter to announce that the housing for his Free Company which he has dubbed \u201cSquare Developer\u2019s Office\u201d is almost complete. He also plans to include messages from 60 people who were involved with the series inside the Free Company housing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">FC\u30cf\u30a6\u30b9\u300c\u30b9\u30af\u30a6\u30a7\u30a2\u958b\u767a\u5ba4\u300d\u307e\u3082\u306a\u304f\u5b8c\u6210\u301c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FF14?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FF14<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/x6HNvkpG8U\">pic.twitter.com\/x6HNvkpG8U<\/a><\/p>&mdash; \u5742\u53e3\u535a\u4fe1 (@auuo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/auuo\/status\/1536787051395284992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 14, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sakaguchi announced that he had formed a Free Company called \u201cSQUARE\u201d on May 30 (<a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20220530-12982\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">related article<\/a>). While participating in the Free Company housing lottery, he also made his <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/auuo\/status\/1531711400275345408\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">intention<\/a> to turn it into the Square Developer\u2019s Office known. <em>Final Fantasy IV<\/em> actually had its own Developer\u2019s Office where characters named after staff members would recite humorous lines, including Sakaguchi. In an homage to that, <em>FFXIV<\/em> got a Developer\u2019s Office in 2015 with characters modeled after staff members involved with development. The limited-time event was a hit with players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u305d\u3057\u3066\u3001FC\u30cf\u30a6\u30b9\u300c\u30b9\u30af\u30a6\u30a7\u30a2\u958b\u767a\u5ba4\u300d\u306e\u30ce\u30fc\u30c8\u306b\u306f\u3001\uff16\uff10\u4eba\u306e\uff26\uff26\u95a2\u4fc2\u8005\u306e\u30e1\u30c3\u30bb\u30fc\u30b8\u3092\uff11\u65e5\u3072\u3068\u3064\u305a\u3064\u4ed8\u8a18\u3002<br>\u306a\u306e\u3067\u3001\u3082\u3046\u3057\u308f\u3051\u306a\u3044\u3067\u3059\u304c\u3001\u66f8\u304d\u8fbc\u307e\u306a\u3044\u3067\u306d\uff08\u6c57\uff09<br>\u3082\u3046\u3059\u3050\u30aa\u30fc\u30d7\u30f3\u3057\u307e\u3059\u3002 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LjN4DlfxaN\">pic.twitter.com\/LjN4DlfxaN<\/a><\/p>&mdash; \u5742\u53e3\u535a\u4fe1 (@auuo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/auuo\/status\/1537165465457512450?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 15, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>An especially interesting point about Sakaguchi\u2019s Square Developer\u2019s Office is the plan to release messages from those involved with the series. This looks like an experiment to use the Message Book Stand item, which can be set up in the game\u2019s housing and allows players to freely leave comments, to add messages from people involved in <em>Final Fantasy<\/em>. One message will be added each day, so it should be complete in around two months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s also possible for visitors to freely leave messages, but for the sake of the above endeavor, Sakaguchi asks that visitors refrain from doing so. The Message Book Stand supports \u201clikes\u201d as well, so if you want to send positive vibes, go ahead and use that feature instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It sounds like Hironobu Sakaguchi\u2019s Square Developer\u2019s Office within <em>FFXIV<\/em> will be completed soon and will likely be a spot any player on his server can visit. In addition, <em>FFXIV<\/em> is planning to add the Data Center Travel System, so the day players all across Japan can visit the Square Developer\u2019s Office may not be too far off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">\u00a9 SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD. 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