Video: FFXIV Hiring New MSQ Writer

I saw this video from a small channel just now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kp-3N7o-e0

Looks like they are hiring a Scenario Writer currently. Hoping they find someone great and this may be a good sign they are understanding some of the feedback and reception towards the most recent writing.

That job has been there for ages and ages. I check regularly.

They recruit scenario writers regularly too.

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Originally Posted by Jeeqbit

That job has been there for ages and ages. I check regularly.

They recruit scenario writers regularly too.

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Thanks for immediately killing any sense of hope for the future.

I think that job specifically is for sidequests.

Yes going to the job posting it was posted "30+ days ago" and may even be hiring a temp. Probably trying people out and seeing who sticks, which isn't promising.

The job requirements are pretty low too, when they really need someone high profile to turn this around.

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Originally Posted by ZephyrMenodora

Yes going to the job posting it was posted "30+ days ago" and may even be hiring a temp. Probably trying people out and seeing who sticks, which isn't promising.

The job requirements are pretty low too, when they really need someone high profile to turn this around.

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I bet it's creatively a really stiffling place to work at anyway, I bet Yoshi runs a super tight ship with his formula and barely allows anything through the cracks-... Though I am 100% sure he did not play through nor really check through Dawntrail himself, so I guess that might've gotten through. Japanese have this weird habit of making everyone talented into supervisors and hiring some nobodies to take up their mantle.

Kinda ironic they have "creative" in their name, when they seem to be rigid as all seven hells and Japanese business rigid cultured af.

More like Creatively Bankrupt Unit III.

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Originally Posted by Hallarem

Japanese have this weird habit of making everyone talented into supervisors and hiring some nobodies to take up their mantle.

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It is true a lot of their team from Heavensward became supervisors. There are good reasons to do that, to train new staff and give them opportunities to learn and grow. The very thing everyone is asking SE to do (hire people).

But it would be ideal if those supervisors were working on the game again now FF16 is done.

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Originally Posted by Jeeqbit

It is true a lot of their team from Heavensward became supervisors. There are good reasons to do that, to train new staff and give them opportunities to learn and grow. The very thing everyone is asking SE to do (hire people).

But it would be ideal if those supervisors were working on the game again now FF16 is done.

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Oh sorry, we're talking in the SE-praise language again. Ehem.

Ah yes, fellow supporter, they can do no wrong. It is a good thing to promote people with talent into meaningless supervisional jobs while hiring people with 0 experience to take over a well-established franchise that requires care and respect to toss people with 0 experience straight into the fire that may or may not bankrupt their company. It is truly revolutionary planning and a grand example of how true diamonds are created in the most pressurecoated of situations.

Remember to smile, and support FFXIV and SE. Perhaps with a few cash shop purchases.

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Originally Posted by Jeeqbit

It is true a lot of their team from Heavensward became supervisors. There are good reasons to do that, to train new staff and give them opportunities to learn and grow. The very thing everyone is asking SE to do (hire people).

But it would be ideal if those supervisors were working on the game again now FF16 is done.

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Trying to be "sensible" and "balanced" when the CEOs obviously don't give a shit about you and will milk you to your bones is bizarre.

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Originally Posted by Hallarem

I bet it's creatively a really stiffling place to work at anyway, I bet Yoshi runs a super tight ship with his formula and barely allows anything through the cracks-... Though I am 100% sure he did not play through nor really check through Dawntrail himself, so I guess that might've gotten through. Japanese have this weird habit of making everyone talented into supervisors and hiring some nobodies to take up their mantle.

Kinda ironic they have "creative" in their name, when they seem to be rigid as all seven hells and Japanese business rigid cultured af.

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To be fair talking from personal experience in the industry here, it's a bit like the opposite of what I've been used to in western companies, where supervisors will always be producers and people with literally no training nor qualifications for the actual creativity of the jobs they supervise, are literally overpaid clueless buffoons that should have no business taking creative decisions, and when you get one manager that actually comes from your background it's such a breath of fresh air that it doesn't even begin to compare.

The problem I can imagine in the case of CBU3 is the lack of suitable replacements when promotion happens and the lack of actual supervision of the new talent, if anything, but I could be wrong, I don't exactly work in their building.

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Originally Posted by Jeeqbit

That job has been there for ages and ages. I check regularly.

They recruit scenario writers regularly too.

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the job specified the wanted writers for a post quest called Dawn something, unless that quest was death unto dawn, which it wasn't. then this recruitment is still DT revant

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Originally Posted by sindriiisgaming

the job specified the wanted writers for a post quest called Dawn something, unless that quest was death unto dawn, which it wasn't. then this recruitment is still DT revant

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That was not mentioned, but it is obvious they will be working on content for Dawntrail and after since they don't go back in time and work on past expansions.

The example quest they have to write is the same example quest given in all previous versions of this job that were advertised for years. They recruit scenario writers frequently. You can see this via archive.org (for as long as that website exists).

"The main task is to write scenarios for new content added for each patch" - content could be anything, but it's unlikely they'd put a new employee straight onto the MSQ without letting them work on sidequests first.

It really wouldn't be difficult to fight any writers to beat out DT story.