Square Enix Send Cease and Desist to Type-0 Fan Translators

Well, it wasn’t hard to see this one coming. Square Enix, after announcing that they’ll be bringing Final Fantasy Type-0 westward via the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, have decided to shut down the fan translation of the original game that has been going on for some time and was incredibly near completion. The question isn’t why they’ve done it, but how on earth Square Enix didn’t contact them six months ago when the official project began.

From the Sky’s RomHacking page:

You know I normally use blog posts for relevant information only, such as project announcements or releases. However, I’m sorry this time it’ll be a little bit different:

Unfortunately I’m forced to remove my posts and pages related to the popular Final Fantasy Type-0 fan translation project. That’s right, certain game company thinks that threats and false accusations are the way to treat its biggest fans. For the time being I can’t answer questions related to this matter, but I’ll write a more comprehensive post about all this once I get the chance.

I hope you understand, and as always I appreciate your support (that I might need more that ever in the near future).

This is always a possibility when it comes to fan projects, and especially so when it involved messing with the original data, but why couldn’t it have been shut down when the official project began? The only sensible answer I can think of is that Square Enix didn’t want to draw attention to the fact that there was a possibility of an official project until they were ready to announce it, which in and of itself is a terrible explanation. The better one is that they just don’t give a damn that this guy was putting time and effort into giving the fans what they want – a version of Final Fantasy Type-0 after only three years.