Final Fantasy Team Moves Motel

151 likes In 1989 Iranian-American programmer Nasir Gebelli was forced to leave Japan, and the Squaresoft offices he worked at, over visa issues. In the middle of programming Final Fantasy III, his coworkers wagered Nasir was so essential to Final Fantasy that it was more economic to move the entire crew to him than wait out another visa process. The rest of Final Fantasy III was created in a motel room in Sacramento, California, as seen in this photo. 1989

A vintage photo shows several computer programmers working together in an office-like room, surrounded by bulky computers and papers. The caption claims that Squaresoft moved the entire Final Fantasy III development team to Sacramento because Nasir Gebelli was so essential and had visa problems, turning an extraordinary workplace anecdote into the joke. It is shared as a reaction to someone being indispensable enough that the whole team must relocate for them. EN: A vintage photo shows several computer programmers working together in an office-like room, surrounded by bulky computers and papers. The caption claims that Squaresoft moved the entire Final Fantasy III development team to Sacramento because Nasir Gebelli was so essential and had visa problems, turning an extraordinary workplace anecdote into the joke. It is shared as a reaction to someone being indispensable enough that the whole team must relocate for them.

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