Naoki Yoshida, the producer/director responsible from turning FFXIV from a disaster to a huge success had said the reason he even joined Square Enix in the first place was because Tactics Ogre was one of his favorite games and he built his career in order to work with Matsuno https://twitter.com/dreamboum/status/1264029012055265282

Banri Oda, one of the writers and lore supervisors of Final Fantasy XIV even went as far as saying that the game's story would have been different if he had not played this game.

One of the biggest successes in the Final Fantasy brand is being helmed by Tactics Ogre nerds