Quote Originally Posted by chronic_Maniac
It was a tribute to me too as It got me into more FF games. As for it to be the last Final Fantasy? It was the last Square soft released FF before going to square Enix. When FF9 was beat I said 'you know they're probally gonna stop FF after this". Well they didn't. It had a love for the old games, that I can tell.
Actually, X was a squaresoft release. Squaresoft became Square Enix shortly after. But it was the last PS1 release, and one of the best, and also the first FF I ever played that got me into the series.

Personally, I also think that IX was a tribute to the old school games, since it was the last one that, if written numerically, would be in single digits and that was somehow important to square, but I dont think it was ever going to be the last one