Final Fantasy Games Inside Final Fantasy 14 Would Require A "Super Level Programmer"

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Have you ever wanted a Final Fantasy game in your Final Fantasy game? It’s not impossible—but it’s going to be a technical feat. 

During a press Q&A at FFXIV's Fan Festival in Las Vegas with the MMO's director and lead producer, Naoki Yoshida, the renowned developer asked if it would be possible to play any of the other Final Fantasy titles within the MMORPG itself. (Even if it’s “cash shop only,” the press member asked—remember that for later.) 

While it seemed a bit of a tall ask, Yoshida actually did have an answer: The FFXIV dev team has actually been researching the possibility for about a year and a half now. 

“With the Final Fantasy pixel remaster coming out, we also thought, wouldn’t it be cool if we can play that in the Gold Saucer, or have it in your estate to play?” explained Yoshida (via a translator). “ Final Fantasy 14 is definitely like a theme park of Final Fantasy . So we would love to incorporate elements that kind of bring that sort of togetherness.” 

However, the team tested this concept, and there was just one issue: the Final Fantasy remasters run on a middleware. 

“Because it’s running on a middleware, if you want to implement that into 14, you’d have to build another system that could play back the middleware inside the game,” he detailed further. “So it’s like you’re building a system of a game to play a system of a game; that’s just this weird configuration. 

“And our Final Fantasy 14 team is—I love them in that, they’re crazy. I don’t think they’re that crazy. If I could only have a genius… I’m not even gonna ask for a genius. Like, someone who is a super level programmer, maybe two more of them, we might be able to start seeing some kind of path.”  

So he told us to ask: If you are