
Originally Posted by
Yar
This is like Matt Groening saying the Simpsons is still great.
Not really - Matt Groening is an executive producer of the Simpsons to this day. Sakaguchi has not held a position at Square Enix for twelve years and hasn't been credited on an FF since FFXII - and that was only "special thanks". He has even gone on the record as saying "I hated Square, the whole business part of it" in an interview. So him giving his blessing is actually pretty notable.