Greetings everyone!
As I'm sure you’re all keenly aware, Yoshida went on a whirlwind tour to four different countries soon after the announcement of FINAL FANTASY XIV Version 2.0 to speak about the changes with community sites and media. There have been a few threads posted for each of his interviews around the world, but we thought it’d be a good idea to collect them into one thread as much as possible.
What's really cool is even some of the interviews from France and Germany were translated into English by the websites themselves!
Of course, if we miss any, we’ll be sure to edit the below list and add them in!
English Interviews
Blue Gartr: FFXIV Naoki Yoshida Interview / Naoki Yoshida MORE Questions and Answers
Gamer Escape: Gamer Escape Interviews Naoki Yoshida "The Truth Is Out There!"
ZAM: ZAM Interviews Naoki Yoshida / Yoshi-P Gives More Answers
RPG Site: Final Fantasy XIV Interview with Producer/Director Naoki Yoshida / Final Fantasy XIV Interview with Producer/Director Naoki Yoshida - Round 2
RPGamer: An Interview with Final Fantasy XIV's Producer/Director Naoki Yoshida
Curse: Final Fantasy XIV Online's Overhaul: An Interview with Naoki Yoshida
Game Geex: Game Geex interviews FFXIV Game Director Yoshidasan
Massively: Our interview with Final Fantasy XIV's Naoki Yoshida
French Interviews
JeuxOnline: Interview avec Naoki Yoshida par l'équipe JeuxOnLine (French) / Interview with Naoki Yoshida with the JeuxOnline team (English version)
Finalfantasy14.eu: Interview N°2 de Naoki Yoshida pour finalfantasy14.eu (French) / Naoki Yoshida interview for finalfantasy14.eu (English version)
FFworld.com: Interview Naoki Yoshida (FFXIV) (French)
Mondespersistants.com: Interview de Naoki Yoshida, producteur de FFXIV (French)
German Interviews
Final-Fantasy.de: Interview mit Naoki Yoshida und Sage Sundi (German)
finalfantasy-wiki.de: Interview mit Naoki Yoshida (German)
jpgames.de: Unser Interview mit Naoki Yoshida (German) / Our interview with Naoki Yoshida (English version)
Yoshida also took a moment during his hectic schedule to pose with our community counterparts at the Europe office! Here he is with Sasunaich (left) and Youmukon (right). If you visit the DE and FR forums, I'm sure you're familiar with these two! :)
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Sasunaich, Yoshida and Youmukon
Yoshida's interviews around the world!
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11-15-2011, 03:26 AMBayohneYoshida's interviews around the world!
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11-15-2011, 03:26 AMPrettyPrincess
Most good.
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11-15-2011, 03:46 AMRemVye
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11-15-2011, 04:02 AMIrondude
A coffee and cigarette fueled around-the-world interview tour... Its like he must make a penance to the world by destroying his health before they will let S/E have a second go at this game.
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11-15-2011, 05:01 AMSanlord
Congratulations Yoshida You're the man :)
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11-15-2011, 05:23 AMNakiamiie
In a french interview (FFworld.com), Yoshi-P says he'd like to bring the ability to morph into a dragon. Dragoon is going to be awesome, if it's related! :D
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11-15-2011, 06:35 AMDuuude007Quote:
Originally Posted by Nakiamiie
Reeeally now? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Duuude007
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11-15-2011, 06:39 AMRentahamster
Every time I see it, I keep reading "Youmukon" as "Youkumon" like he's some kind of Digimon or something.
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11-15-2011, 08:07 AMJim
Thanks man great interviews!
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11-15-2011, 08:18 AMAkumuhttp://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vx12YxWiYI...s-Drooling.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by Nakiamiie
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11-15-2011, 08:32 AMRentahamsterLiu Kang wins!Quote:
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11-15-2011, 09:14 AMDuuude007Or Maybe Ryu?Quote:
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11-15-2011, 09:43 AMJennestia
Would be interesting in the regardless, since that would require more balancing than just giving them a pet lol. I wouldn't say Ryu (even though it would be cool), since they'd then have to balance elemental type dragons against various things and eventually PvP.
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11-15-2011, 09:59 AMPanTone
Thanks for posting these links Bayohne; now I can have just one bookmark !
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11-15-2011, 01:27 PMAirgetThat's quite the cool artwork for Ryu lol. In terms of morphing into a Dragon I would imagine the more humanoid version seen from Breath of Fire IV rather then actually morphing said character into a dragon dragon. If they turned into a dragon dragon I would imagine every race having the same look with different sizes to them, though if you made humanoid Dragon Forms it would at least allow room for each race to have a unique look when turning into a dragon even if it does mean a pint-size lalafell Dragon form lol. Also with the humanoid concept they could hopefully allow it where you could still see the armor on them lol. Heck they do wanna go for realism if one did turn into an actual dragon your gear would break during the process XD.Quote:
Originally Posted by Duuude007
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11-15-2011, 01:33 PMSephrick
It's very impressive that Yoshida is this proactive in promoting the game via this sort of traveling when he already has so much in his plate. Kind of puts it in perspective seeing them all in one post like that.
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11-15-2011, 05:39 PMVeltaine
*drools* thank you bayohne! you really are chasing yoshis tail to bring the goodies to us greedy players, and for that, our money will be well spend :)
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11-15-2011, 07:54 PMCatapult
Lookin' good, Sasu!
I'm not exaggerating when I say those two have their work cut out for them and do a great job, taking care of their respective forums on their own. -
11-16-2011, 04:45 AMChezen
Kodus to your patience with the subsciption questions, Yoshi-P. I'm tired just reading it. Jeeper sneepers.
A couple of things that caught my attention:
My first thought was that maybe you meant to reintroduce the complexity that the crafting was before (the system of more items required) for high quality, but if you did that it would cause problems in inventory again, right? I'm really interested in what you mean by this and I look forward to the details. ^^Quote:
And one of the things we're planning is two different crafting systems. One that's very simplified and that you're going just for the item you need without having to worry about High Quality, with a small chance of High Quality. Then there's the other system, where it will take more time and effort, but the chance of getting that High Quality item will become higher. So the people who want to spend more time and do it carefully will have the higher chance of a High Quality, and then the people who want to get it done, they have the consolidated system.
Back when FFXIV was first launched, I thought about how, in console FF games, the main story line tends to be a medium difficulty, and the side quests are what range from easy to very hard. I thought that maybe if the dev team approached the online game this way, it would make FFXIV accessible to more people, particularly for those of us who really just play for the story. How interesting that you seem to be doing just that.Quote:
One interesting point to note is that Mr. Yoshida claimed that players would be able to solo the main scenario with the assistance of companions and story NPCs. He stated that in Final Fantasy XI, getting a party together to defeat the Shadow Lord was a very rewarding experience for a group, so he wants to have similar content in Final Fantasy XIV, too. He wants main quests to be completable and balanced so that players can finish them solo, but side quests will vary. Some side quests might require a party, especially for gathering powerful items.
I'm glad to see your approaches for this game, in which there seems there will be something for everyone to enjoy, and different playstyle choices in which they can enjoy it. It's becoming a very intricate, interesting game. Easy to learn, but hard to master, if you wish to master it. I really like that. I'm looking forward to the future. :)
P. S. Of course, you can't do this all by yourself. Please give my thanks to your staff. :) -
11-16-2011, 04:54 AMBetelgeuzah
I just wonder what their intended difficulty for the main scenario will be when soloed.
Usually solo content in an MMO is designed for the lowest common denominator. As in "the braindead population".
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11-16-2011, 05:08 AMChezenOn that I agree. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Betelgeuzah
Personally, my path companion has made my current main scenerio battles a little too easy, so far. But it's early in the game too, maybe higher levels will get harder. Also, perhaps in the future, some harder solo side quests and dungeons will be implimented. However, I would agree that group content needs priority right now. -
11-17-2011, 02:26 AMBetelgeuzah
Going to post this here too. One of the interviewers posted regarding the differences between Yoshida and Kitase (XIII, XIII-2):
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He's really good at saying a lot whilst saying little, which is a mark of someone very practiced at the interview game.
The difference between interviewing him and Yoshida is funny, though. Kitase is a lovely, softly spoken man, but when answering, he'd look at the translator or look away. That's the norm, really. Yoshida, though, looked deep into your eyes as he explained and spoke, even in a language I understand so little of I need a translator, with absolute conviction. Yoshida is in that sense second only to Molyneux, who engages you so completely in interviews you fall into a trance and believe everything he says until you walk out and go "wait a minute.... IT IS ON RAILS!"
Interviewing the two exactly seven days apart with Arnie Roth for Distant Worlds the day after, the differences between the two were quite incredible.
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11-17-2011, 11:45 AMRaneInteresting. Thanks for posting that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Betelgeuzah
I assume that in the first sentence of the quote, where it says "He's really good at saying a lot whilst saying little...", the "he" refers to Kitase?