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Originally Posted by Phil Spencer
"It's business," he said, adding he couldn't speak too candidly about the matter. "As I've grow in this role, and I've tried to learn the third-party exclusivity thing - and you see us doing less of it now - [I've found] it's not something I'm a huge fan of."
Originally Posted by Phil Spencer
"Different kind of deals happen, and I know that's part of this busienss, and maybe it'll be my failing in the end," he says, laughing. "But it's not something I specifically embrace with any deal that's out there, whether it's something else. It's just not something I can explicitly talk to."
He definitely alludes to Sony having made a deal for third party exclusivity for FF14. Otherwise, why mention it at all. It is their own policy holding back FF14, and he just lied about it. He lied. There is no middle ground. you are either calling Naoki Yoshida a liar, or Phil Spencer. Why would Yoshida have reason to lie?