Interview with Yoshi-P

A magazine I follow just posted an interview with Yoshi-P in their culture section online: http://dot429.com/articles/5978-the-...al-fantasy-xiv.

He answers questions about the Ceremony of Eternal Bondage Bonding, Heavensward content, revisiting ARR areas, and personal favorites.

That was a fun read, thank you for posting that. Yoshi interviews are always a delight.

I don't think I've seen an actual interview before - just the live letters. At the bottom there's a link to an unedited version where his emoticons are still in there, lol. :D I did a total double-take when I saw them.

WHAT!?


NY: This question is the most difficult out of all of the questions you’ve asked!

We’ve received lots of feedback from around the world with regard to new jobs. Red mage and samurai are particularly popular requests. With a job that is simply a support role, raising its effectiveness would force the job to become mandatory in a party. On the other hand, if the support power was weakened, it would be difficult to contribute to the party. Therefore, that type of job is very difficult to balance.

If we were to ever implement a red mage job, I don’t think it would simply be a support role. In terms of the blue mage, I think it may be great to make it a special job geared specifically toward solo play, almost like a unique type of playable content in and of itself. In any case, I am not able to definitively reply about the next new job at this time, but regardless of what job we do implement, I promise you that players will be surprised and enjoy playing it!

In his response, he didn't talk much about why Samurai wouldn't be hard to do, so it's a possibility that it could be the next job. However, I'm thinking it won't be because he said it would be surprising to the players. Blue mage and Red mage seem to be ruled out. Now it's time for everyone's speculation......notice the use of the word time.....Time Mage confirmed along with Half-Life 3.

jk