‘Final Fantasy XIV’ composer Masayoshi Soken reveals cancer battle
Final Fantasy XIV composer Masayoshi Soken revealed that he had been battling with cancer since last year.In a sobering close to the Final Fantasy XIV Digital Fan Festival, where he had also performed with his band The Primals, Soken opened up that he was diagnosed in March 2020.“Until about October last year, I spent approximately six to seven months in a hospital room,” he said, via his translator and fellow Primals bandmate Michael Christopher Koji-Fox.“So thinking about how to use that time, I didn’t want to just sit there and do nothing, and neither did Yoshida-san and neither did our CEO.