Wired, Uematsu on the name

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Original: https://www.wired.com/gamelife/2009/07/final-fantasy/
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Credit: Chris Kohler, Wired.com, 23 July 2009.
Notes: Kohler reports an answer Nobuo Uematsu gave him after an interview: the account that Square was near bankruptcy and the team believed the game would be the company's last. The sentence is the reporter's paraphrase of Uematsu, not a verbatim quotation from Uematsu; attribute it as Wired's report of what Uematsu said. It conflicts with Sakaguchi's later account in Famitsu (2015), which rejects the "last game" explanation.

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Wired's Chris Kohler reported in 2009 that Nobuo Uematsu told him Sakaguchi was going to quit, but that the real reason for the name was that Square was going bankrupt and the designers believed the game would be the company's swan song.	`paragraph beginning "So I asked Uematsu"`	Web