52 Minutes of Yoshi-P unleashed :D Here's my interview with our fearless leader

I'm sure you're not the only one thinking we would get another class before the expansion. It's only natural since a few months back they mentioned on a Nico Nico event I believe it was, both the dagger class (Which we now know is Rogue/Ninja) and this gun class. At least now we know for sure that's all we get before the expansion though, so good to know :)

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Originally Posted by Abriael

As some of you may know, I got a chance to interview Yoshi-P at gamescom.

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Thanks for taking the time to share this with us.

I appreciate this but it was REALLY hard to hear most of the questions.

Yoshi-P was crystal clear, the translator was quite clear as well, the questions however were extremely difficult to hear and had me turning my headphones up so loud that the background noise was hurting my head and I STILL couldn't make out everything...

In the end I had to give up and just refer to the half guessed transcript someone else posted in this thread.

Please, in the future, try to move the microphone closer to yourself or move yourself closer to the mic. It would help so much ;.;

• Yoshi's favorite feature right now is Frontlines (He personally is a pvp fan and likes having 3 different factions battling); he likes that each round is unpredictable and different, and that players all over the world enjoy it. He's done over 250 frontlines battles, falling behind on the MSQ even.

• No new classes (besides rogue/ninja) before 3.0. 3.0 is coming very soon, probably sooner than players anticipate.

• Many surprises for the players in 3.0, many new fields, deep story line, new classes and jobs. But he wants to save specifics for later. He's bringing in rogue/ninja before then because he felt it was missing from the starting game. ninja/rogue will bring new strategies to both PvE and PvP (stealth tactics).

• If everyone's ninja, you'll probably lose your outpost in frontlines; you'll need a balance.

• Yoshi doesn't feel open-world pvp appeals to the Final Fantasy fanbase and FFXIV playerbase. However, if there's enough feedback from the community, he would consider a single open-world PvP server. (He personally likes the idea of openworld PvP)

• If the interviewers think there's no difference between the PS3 and PS4 graphics, Yoshi thinks that means the PS3 is still very good. He will let the dev team know that some people say that.

• It's not only about graphics quality, but also loading speed, number of characters that can be displayed on the screen, and UI limitations. However, he believes that the PS4 can provide a comparable gaming experience to a PC at a much lower price. (Note: He gave an example in yen, probably referring to Japanese prices)

• He can't disclose specifics about what % of players are on the PS4, but it depends on the country. In Japan, however, consoles are about 50% of the user base; there is not much PC gaming culture in Japan. In the US, it's around 25%. A lot of console players in Europe too.

• They're ready to go ahead with an Xbox port if MS agrees to cross platform servers. He thinks MS's strategy is to focus on new titles with the holiday season coming and is still focusing on beating the PS4, and after that might consider reaching out to the larger community. But Yoshi doesn't see MS agreeing to it this year.

• (Does Yoshi think MS just doesn't want Xbox players mingling with PS3/4 players?) Yoshi thinks MS wants exclusive content to build their community. He doesn't think MS wants content where people go, "Oh you can also play this on the playstation." Yoshi doesn't think gamers particularly care, and they just want to play with their friends; from this viewpoint, cross platform servers makes sense and, Yoshi thinks, would help the industry. MS wouldn't even allow Xbox & Windows cross platform when they asked.

• They are considering bringing in a character from a previous FF (They can't reveal which) from top to bottom; players will be able to do a cosplay of that character. What he can reveal: A character that lost their life in the previous series will not be returning. He doesn't want to ruin the memories player have of the original game, when the characters' lives (and deaths) are very dramatic. Aerith's posture might make it to the game.

• Yoshi personally particularly likes Shadow from FFVI. In the end of FFVI, you don't know if Shadow lives or dies... this excludes Shadow from appearing, since he doesn't want to spoil that mysteriousness.

• Other criteria for bringing a character in: They have to be able to return to their own world and the scenario writers have to be able to come up with something that makes sense. But no matter what, Yoshi understands some players will love it and some players will hate it.

• Yoshi's noted the popularity of Lightning's hairstyle and costume in the game.

• DX11 version is in progress. Yoshi thinks it looks pretty good, but hard to tell the difference unless you specialize in graphics (He doesn't think the average player will notice). The water looks especially good, however, and players that pay special attention to graphical detail will enjoy it.

• For players that think the PS3 and PS4 version look the same, he doesn't think it will make a difference.
  The graphics are done, but there's some coding that affects the performance that needs to be optimized and they're getting help from nVidia engineers. DX11 client will be ready at the end of year at the earliest.

• Yoshi has indeed read articles and such about subscription model MMOs being on the decline, but FFXIV is doing fine as a subscription game. He doesn't think F2P is the only future of MMOs and it's about making the right choice for the right games and business models. He has no plans to shift to F2P currently.

• He does not have any plans for a longer free trial or a tiered service where the lower tier is closer to F2P. However, Yoshi is getting feedback from the community that they would like to buy previous seasonal event items, so there is the possibility they will offer that in the future.

• Yoshi has noticed a tendency for players to prefer to pay for things they have enjoyed and know they enjoy now, rather than put down money for something they might enjoy.

• If Yoshi ever were to change the business model of FFXIV, it would be to bring in more players so more people could enjoy FFXIV. He doesn't think F2P and subscription are the only options. But whatever the business model, he wants to make sure fans can enjoy the game.

• (Very long question about hunts, community division issues, etc) 2.35 will make many adjustments to The Hunt.
  The intent was for hunts to be something for a different audience of players. For example, the B rank hunt wasn't meant to target "server players", but individual players, and give them a steady flow of seals. For S ranks, the expectation was for ad-hoc party forming through /shouts. And the A rank somewhere in between.

• They don't want hunts to be something you have to party up in advance for. They want it to be more for casual players. They believe this is not just because of Sand/Oil rewards, but because all hunts rewards seals and only the amount changes.
  Yoshi doesn't want to detail the changes before the patch because he worries that it might cause more conflict in the community now or after the patch is applied.

• Yoshi isn't planning to do an exclusive claim system because he is concerned (from what happened in FFXI) it will favor players will multiple accounts and lots of time and money disproportionately.

• Technically autoscaling most UI elements is not that difficult. However, because they support the PS3, PS4, and PC, each update pushes about 50,000 UI files. Although they use macros to assist with preparing the files, it still takes them a week. This makes it difficult for them to identify which elements would have the option of autoscaling and which would not. They are working on it, please bear with them. He will definitely make it happen and understands resolutions are getting higher and higher.

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Originally Posted by Risvertasashi

• * He does not have any plans for a longer free trial or a tiered service where the lower tier is closer to F2P. However, Yoshi is getting feedback from the community that they would like to buy previous seasonal event items, so there is the possibility they will offer that in the future.

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...Huh? Wha..?

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Originally Posted by Gardes

...Huh? Wha..?

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Basically, the game is staying a sub game, but they might offer microtransactions for seasonal items (for events you miss, not during the event) a la fantasia.

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Originally Posted by Risvertasashi

• DX11 version is in progress. Yoshi thinks it looks pretty good, but hard to tell the difference unless you specialize in graphics (He doesn't think the average player will notice). The water looks especially good, however, and players that pay special attention to graphical detail will enjoy it.

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correct me if I'm wrong but wont people who have DX11 capable video cards notice a performance increase due to things being done in hardware on the DX11 client even if they dont notice a lot of visual improvements?

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Originally Posted by Risvertasashi

• Yoshi's favorite feature right now is Frontlines (He personally is a pvp fan and likes having 3 different factions battling); he likes that each round is unpredictable and different, and that players all over the world enjoy it. He's done over 250 frontlines battles, falling behind on the MSQ even.

• No new classes (besides rogue/ninja) before 3.0. 3.0 is coming very soon, probably sooner than players anticipate.

• Many surprises for the players in 3.0, many new fields, deep story line, new classes and jobs. But he wants to save specifics for later. He's bringing in rogue/ninja before then because he felt it was missing from the starting game. ninja/rogue will bring new strategies to both PvE and PvP (stealth tactics).

• If everyone's ninja, you'll probably lose your outpost in frontlines; you'll need a balance.

• Yoshi doesn't feel open-world pvp appeals to the Final Fantasy fanbase and FFXIV playerbase. However, if there's enough feedback from the community, he would consider a single open-world PvP server. (He personally likes the idea of openworld PvP)

• If the interviewers think there's no difference between the PS3 and PS4 graphics, Yoshi thinks that means the PS3 is still very good. He will let the dev team know that some people say that.

• It's not only about graphics quality, but also loading speed, number of characters that can be displayed on the screen, and UI limitations. However, he believes that the PS4 can provide a comparable gaming experience to a PC at a much lower price. (Note: He gave an example in yen, probably referring to Japanese prices)

• He can't disclose specifics about what % of players are on the PS4, but it depends on the country. In Japan, however, consoles are about 50% of the user base; there is not much PC gaming culture in Japan. In the US, it's around 25%. A lot of console players in Europe too.

• They're ready to go ahead with an Xbox port if MS agrees to cross platform servers. He thinks MS's strategy is to focus on new titles with the holiday season coming and is still focusing on beating the PS4, and after that might consider reaching out to the larger community. But Yoshi doesn't see MS agreeing to it this year.

• (Does Yoshi think MS just doesn't want Xbox players mingling with PS3/4 players?) Yoshi thinks MS wants exclusive content to build their community. He doesn't think MS wants content where people go, "Oh you can also play this on the playstation." Yoshi doesn't think gamers particularly care, and they just want to play with their friends; from this viewpoint, cross platform servers makes sense and, Yoshi thinks, would help the industry. MS wouldn't even allow Xbox & Windows cross platform when they asked.

• They are considering bringing in a character from a previous FF (They can't reveal which) from top to bottom; players will be able to do a cosplay of that character. What he can reveal: A character that lost their life in the previous series will not be returning. He doesn't want to ruin the memories player have of the original game, when the characters' lives (and deaths) are very dramatic. Aerith's posture might make it to the game.

• Yoshi personally particularly likes Shadow from FFVI. In the end of FFVI, you don't know if Shadow lives or dies... this excludes Shadow from appearing, since he doesn't want to spoil that mysteriousness.

• Other criteria for bringing a character in: They have to be able to return to their own world and the scenario writers have to be able to come up with something that makes sense. But no matter what, Yoshi understands some players will love it and some players will hate it.

• Yoshi's noted the popularity of Lightning's hairstyle and costume in the game.

• DX11 version is in progress. Yoshi thinks it looks pretty good, but hard to tell the difference unless you specialize in graphics (He doesn't think the average player will notice). The water looks especially good, however, and players that pay special attention to graphical detail will enjoy it.

• For players that think the PS3 and PS4 version look the same, he doesn't think it will make a difference.
  The graphics are done, but there's some coding that affects the performance that needs to be optimized and they're getting help from nVidia engineers. DX11 client will be ready at the end of year at the earliest.

• Yoshi has indeed read articles and such about subscription model MMOs being on the decline, but FFXIV is doing fine as a subscription game. He doesn't think F2P is the only future of MMOs and it's about making the right choice for the right games and business models. He has no plans to shift to F2P currently.

• He does not have any plans for a longer free trial or a tiered service where the lower tier is closer to F2P. However, Yoshi is getting feedback from the community that they would like to buy previous seasonal event items, so there is the possibility they will offer that in the future.

• Yoshi has noticed a tendency for players to prefer to pay for things they have enjoyed and know they enjoy now, rather than put down money for something they might enjoy.

• If Yoshi ever were to change the business model of FFXIV, it would be to bring in more players so more people could enjoy FFXIV. He doesn't think F2P and subscription are the only options. But whatever the business model, he wants to make sure fans can enjoy the game.

• (Very long question about hunts, community division issues, etc) 2.35 will make many adjustments to The Hunt.
  The intent was for hunts to be something for a different audience of players. For example, the B rank hunt wasn't meant to target "server players", but individual players, and give them a steady flow of seals. For S ranks, the expectation was for ad-hoc party forming through /shouts. And the A rank somewhere in between.

• They don't want hunts to be something you have to party up in advance for. They want it to be more for casual players. They believe this is not just because of Sand/Oil rewards, but because all hunts rewards seals and only the amount changes.
  Yoshi doesn't want to detail the changes before the patch because he worries that it might cause more conflict in the community now or after the patch is applied.

• Yoshi isn't planning to do an exclusive claim system because he is concerned (from what happened in FFXI) it will favor players will multiple accounts and lots of time and money disproportionately.

• Technically autoscaling most UI elements is not that difficult. However, because they support the PS3, PS4, and PC, each update pushes about 50,000 UI files. Although they use macros to assist with preparing the files, it still takes them a week. This makes it difficult for them to identify which elements would have the option of autoscaling and which would not. They are working on it, please bear with them. He will definitely make it happen and understands resolutions are getting higher and higher.

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Thank you so much for this. I hope the OP will add this to his OP and the article, With your permission of course! Thank you for your work on this and Thank You Abriael for your interview. You had an opportunity that many of us wish we could have had, you met with and talked to YP himself. You rock!

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Originally Posted by Shougun

[...]In Japan there is very small PC culture, almost 50% of the player base is on consoles [...]

-A lot of Japanese players are playing on consoles. North America not so much.

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Either this is mistranslation or Producer Yoshida is making a mistake with basic math. Maybe it's a PR wording or something. The proper aproach would be to say, that in all regions more people play on PC but in Japan consoles are somewhat popular. The option that is >50% prevails and is majority over option that is <50% and is minority. It's nice that devs feel sentiment to the consoles and want to give them special attention, but console players are minority in this case.

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Originally Posted by Wildsprite

correct me if I'm wrong but wont people who have DX11 capable video cards notice a performance increase due to things being done in hardware on the DX11 client even if they dont notice a lot of visual improvements?

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DX12 is coming...
http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2014/03/20/directx-12/

Am I the only one who feels like I'm being pressured to click the link. Hell as an article writer myself I know what it's like to get people to actually click your article...but it just feels a bit disingenuous to say you don't have a transcription because it would take too long.

Wouldn't it serve you better to have a transcription of any sorts? Hell a cliffnotes would even suffice like people in this thread have done for you. Keep it on your dualshockers page if you must, but it just feels "Click-bait" when you present it like that.

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Abrial I'll just leave this here for you.

Whether the game masters feel it's off topic or not isn't my concern. I see your a little upset with any post to mention the mere thought of a transcription. I doubt anyone is unhappy that you posted the video or had the interview.

Stooping to personal attacks isn't helping you defend yourself but I'll leave that for you to decide what a professional should act like.

I don't write for FFXIV, nor would I ever want too. But for the love of god don't try and defend yourself when you’re called out on something so obvious.

As for the forums GM's feel free to delete the post if you feel it's off topic I feel it it's perfectly on topic for a translation/video interview to have a discussion on transcription be able to take place as long as we are not resorting to personal attacks.

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Originally Posted by Jynx

Am I the only one who feels like I'm being pressured to click the link.
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Wouldn't it serve you better to have a transcription of any sorts?

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You need it translated from English to ???

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Originally Posted by Zirael_Foxfire

Either this is mistranslation or Producer Yoshida is making a mistake with basic math. Maybe it's a PR wording or something. The proper aproach would be to say, that in all regions more people play on PC but in Japan consoles are somewhat popular. The option that is >50% prevails and is majority over option that is <50% and is minority. It's nice that devs feel sentiment to the consoles and want to give them special attention, but console players are minority in this case.

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http://youtu.be/qEwraANVxBU?t=14m36s

Literally says "almost 50%" lol, I don't know what to say otherwise XD. (Of course the statistic is PS3 and PS4, so two platforms vs one . lol)

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Originally Posted by Wildsprite

correct me if I'm wrong but wont people who have DX11 capable video cards notice a performance increase due to things being done in hardware on the DX11 client even if they dont notice a lot of visual improvements?

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This is correct. DX9 does some things less efficiently than the DX11 binaries, so unless they go crazy with the new shaders you should notice an increase in performance with DX11 cards.

Why does no one talk about how you can't change jobs while in a duty? This seems like an overlooked feature that they should be adding. Just I googled it and no one is even talking about this.

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Originally Posted by 1magicman

Why does no one talk about how you can't change jobs while in a duty? This seems like an overlooked feature that they should be adding. Just I googled it and no one is even talking about this.

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This was in the 1.0, but from all they have said about the duty finder and how hard it is for them program for it, even if they wanted to add this, I imagine it would take about a year or so for them to figure out how. They are still trying to figure out how to let you que up for duty finder with your chocobo out, and they have been working on that since beta.

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Originally Posted by AttacKat

You need it translated from English to ???

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Transcription =/= Translation

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Originally Posted by 1magicman

Why does no one talk about how you can't change jobs while in a duty? This seems like an overlooked feature that they should be adding. Just I googled it and no one is even talking about this.

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It could mean either and likely both A. Trivializing content (not all of course), B. Requiring multiple jobs leveled to be a part of "serious" runs. There is a general balance between classes but it isn't perfect enough not to have preferences- also if it was perfectly balanced I imagine people could call the Jobs clones of each other and say boring.. tiny differences of pros and cons throughout the dungeon works out. Then you could also go in Tank but tell everyone you want to play BLM or rage quit.

In 1.0 you could actually switch on the fly, and this stuff happened all the time.. lol

Finally, loot rules would be crazy :P

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Originally Posted by Jynx

Am I the only one who feels like I'm being pressured to click the link. Hell as a article writer myself I know what it's like to get people to actually click your article...but it just feels a bit disingenuous to say you don't have a transcription because it would take too long.

Wouldn't it serve you better to have a transcription of any sorts? Hell a cliffnotes would even suffice like people in this thread have done for you. Keep it on your dualshockers page if you must, but it just feels "Click-bate" when you present it like that.

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I suggest you give a good read to this.

PS: an "article writer" should know how to spell "click-bait."

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Originally Posted by Abriael

I suggest you give a good read to this.

PS: an "article writer" should know how to spell "click-bait."

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If you're going to take a swing at his spelling, you might as well take a swing as his grammar too. "As a article writer myself". *shakes head*

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Originally Posted by Zirael_Foxfire

DX12 is coming...
http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2014/03/20/directx-12/

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... in late 2015.

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Originally Posted by Jynx

Am I the only one who feels like I'm being pressured to click the link. Hell as an article writer myself I know what it's like to get people to actually click your article...but it just feels a bit disingenuous to say you don't have a transcription because it would take too long.

Wouldn't it serve you better to have a transcription of any sorts? Hell a cliffnotes would even suffice like people in this thread have done for you. Keep it on your dualshockers page if you must, but it just feels "Click-bait" when you present it like that.

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I asked a question it was answered straight off the bat, I didn't click the link because I thought the whole interview was done in Japanese absolutely pointless to me upon reading further I discovered there was a translator. Great only problem is I only wanted to know that one thing.

Expansion is most likely gonna come out the start of 2015 since there's only 1 coil and CT left so pretty much after 2.5

I'm always interested in seeing how they treat the whole class/job system going forward. I think the developers see it as clearly as players do that the classes themselves are a relic from a system that has no place in the current game.

Hopefully they phase the classes themselves out of existence and focus on just the jobs themselves.

I'm just going to keep my assumption that 1st expansion will happen sometime after 2.5 since 2.3 is the mid point of 2.X contents

Funny they are changing hunts now, everyone who was serious about gearing their characters in the easiest way possible are done with their main classes and are now working on their second and third classes. I like hunts the way they are now if they change it I won't be too bothered, but I know a lot of people who only log in for hunts and coil, they'll see a good portion of their playerbase become Tuesday log ins again.

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Originally Posted by Nadrojj

serious about gearing their characters in the easiest way possible

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There's something about this that just doesn't seem right to me.

2 years for an expansion... i guess september will be the last subscription month i will pay. Cant take how long they taking between patches.

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Originally Posted by Abed_Nego

2 years for an expansion... i guess september will be the last subscription month i will pay. Cant take how long they taking between patches.

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Eh, took Blizzard around two years to get their first one out. And most likely our first one will be less than 2 years. And ~3 months per patch is actually on the short side.

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Originally Posted by Abed_Nego

2 years for an expansion... i guess september will be the last subscription month i will pay. Cant take how long they taking between patches.

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Don't let the door hit you and all that.

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I'm just going to keep my assumption that 1st expansion will happen sometime after 2.5 since 2.3 is the mid point of 2.X contents

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I'm expecting 3.0 to be a paid expansion, so not everyone will get it, and thus the 2.x line of updates will continue for as long as universal additions are made (such as hard mode dungeons, housing items, glamour, etc.). So when Yoshi says the expansion is MUCH closer than anyone expects, I think it's going to be released sometime between 2.4 and 2.5. It also explains why they aren't worried about releasing ROG/NIN on its own with no other classes/jobs until 3.0. :3

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Originally Posted by ispano

Eh, took Blizzard around two years to get their first one out. And most likely our first one will be less than 2 years. And ~3 months per patch is actually on the short side.

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I like how people think programming and managing an MMO is like making a burger in McDonalds or checking someone into a hotel. I believe everyone should be required to take programming in high school to know the developer's pain.

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Originally Posted by Wildsprite

correct me if I'm wrong but wont people who have DX11 capable video cards notice a performance increase due to things being done in hardware on the DX11 client even if they dont notice a lot of visual improvements?

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It's not such a huge improvement which is why he said it won't be noticeable because all it really is mainly is a graphical update.

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Originally Posted by Zirael_Foxfire

Either this is mistranslation or Producer Yoshida is making a mistake with basic math. Maybe it's a PR wording or something. The proper aproach would be to say, that in all regions more people play on PC

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It wasn't a mistranslation - There isn't a huge PC culture in Japan in comparison to the west - I'm also sure a Japanese developer would know this info :p

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Originally Posted by Exstal

I like how people think programming and managing an MMO is like making a burger in McDonalds or checking someone into a hotel. I believe everyone should be required to take programming in high school to know the developer's pain.

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Just an Fyi, XI's first expansion was out about now - Same team largely and definitely same company. It wasn't a tiny expansion either, when most people think of XI 'at launch' they think of Zilart era if they started in the west, which dramatically increased the size of XI's world.

Plus during ARR dev they said the first expansion should be out about a year after launch, so I don't think anyone thinks it's as easy as 'making a hamburger', it's more like the alternating update focus is what delayed it because they delayed the Crystal Tower in the first place.

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Originally Posted by Shake0615

Ninja will have stealth in Frontlines? No thank you.

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It's a key mechanic to the class. It's like asking a summoener not to use DoTs.

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Originally Posted by Lego3400

It's a key mechanic to the class. It's like asking a summoener not to use DoTs.

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You mean warlock - a summoner's key mechanic is their summons in the FF series. We have Warlock :p

(I get what you were saying though.)

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Originally Posted by Tupsi

Just an Fyi, XI's first expansion was out about now - Same team largely and definitely same company. It wasn't a tiny expansion either, when most people think of XI 'at launch' they think of Zilart era if they started in the west, which dramatically increased the size of XI's world.

Plus during ARR dev they said the first expansion should be out about a year after launch, so I don't think anyone thinks it's as easy as 'making a hamburger', it's more like the alternating update focus is what delayed it because they delayed the Crystal Tower in the first place.

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I see. Maybe they should have had expansion out faster given that 1.0 was done horribly wrong and, from what I've gathered, 2.0 is mostly 1.0 stuff redone with the new engine / look. Although, maybe if it was still Tanaka 2.0 would have been expansion for original XIV.

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Originally Posted by Tupsi

You mean warlock - a summoner's key mechanic is their summons in the FF series. We have Warlock :p

(I get what you were saying though.)

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There is no warlock in FF universe.

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Originally Posted by Risvertasashi

• He can't disclose specifics about what % of players are on the PS4, but it depends on the country. In Japan, however, consoles are about 50% of the user base; there is not much PC gaming culture in Japan. In the US, it's around 25%. A lot of console players in Europe too.

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Only 25% console players on US? I always thought it would be much higher.

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Originally Posted by Exstal

There is no warlock in FF universe.

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That's my point - up until ARR there wasn't, what we have as "Summoner" is essentially warlock more so than a summoner :p

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Maybe they should have had expansion out faster given that 1.0 was done horribly wrong and, from what I've gathered, 2.0 is mostly 1.0 stuff redone with the new engine / look. Although, maybe if it was still Tanaka 2.0 would have been expansion for original XIV.

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Pretty much - Heck a lot of what Yoshi got praised for was actually just him pushing out updates Tanaka's team started working on, Yoshi's ideals didn't truthfully come into play until 1.21 and then later ARR.

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Originally Posted by Tupsi

That's my point - up until ARR there wasn't, what we have as "Summoner" is essentially warlock more so than a summoner :p

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Please don't bring this argument in General Discussion. It's already enough having to see that in the DPS sub-forums.

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Originally Posted by Dwill

Please don't bring this argument in General Discussion. It's already enough having to see that in the DPS sub-forums.

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It's a harsh but true reality though. D: