TheEccentricMrHaos

This morning I woke up to a lot of Twitter posts with the hashtag #WelcomeBackSoken and similar because over the last couple of days the FFXIV Fan Fest was streaming all over the world live and yesterday there was the live letter from the Producer, the Voice actors coming on stage for a bit, some games, and a concert of the Primals, the signature band for the game. But what happens at the end really got me this morning and brought Yoshi-P to tears. It turned out that Masayoshi Soken, the main composer and musical director of FFXIV, had battled cancer last year during this pandemic and won. How? Treatments and the love of us players and fans of the game. He's been part of this game since day one and he's also been a best friend and support to Yoshi-P, who asked if he could do the music for the game. None of us knew because Soken said nothing to anyone except Yoshi-P so he wouldn't worry the fans and coworkers. But that didn't stop his work as he even went as far as producing a song