Yoshi-P's vision for FFXIV

[Quesse]

As thorough as it seems, just reading this one letter on its own is more than a little out of context when compared to ALL of the other letters he has written and course he took with 1.0.

As someone who lived through 1.0 from the beginning and saw Yoshi's vision start to be realized, and read and digested all the letters he has written so far, its not hard to see he has a complete vision for the game that's not yet been realized.

At times I don't necessarily agree with his vision but I definitely don't think its going to be anything half-baked or watered-down. He will and has always intended to turn this game into something full of interesting and unique content with lots of depth for all groups.

[ZakarnRosewood]

As thorough as it seems, just reading this one letter on its own is more than a little out of context when compared to ALL of the other letters he has written and course he took with 1.0.

As someone who lived through 1.0 from the beginning and saw Yoshi's vision start to be realized, and read and digested all the letters he has written so far, its not hard to see he has a complete vision for the game that's not yet been realized.

At times I don't necessarily agree with his vision but I definitely don't think its going to be anything half-baked or watered-down. He will and has always intended to turn this game into something full of interesting and unique content with lots of depth for all groups.

Exactly. We, as avid followers from Yoshi-P's rise to Producer to now, we can see all the context and understand what is going on better than most of the vocal people on the forums. Even coming in from patch 1.21 you would have missed some very interesting letters and poll results that would tell you exactly what kind of game he is making. All that information is there, ready and available to anyone who wants to read it. Problem is, no one seems interested in understanding when they can just take a cursory glance and complain. I can't wait till the game is in the state Yoshi-P wanted it to be.

[HiirNoivl]

I have a character on a JP world and while I have had problems with the DF, all of them are english speaking (usually NA) players.

There are people on the NA side who don't have a problem with it either. Even though the problem is worse on the NA side, I agree, JPs seem to be requesting the same things the NA players do when it comes to Duty Finder. So JPs aren't completely happy with it.

I created a dire-prediction thread on Crystal Tower Duty Finder. Crystal Tower worries me because he was held back and modified to increase it's compatibility with Duty Finder. Yoshi P STILL thinks Duty Finder can work at endgame. It cannot work at 8 members. It will not work at 24 members. LFP might be able to work so long as you can see and choose who you want to join your party, so long as you can see you DON'T want and can refuse or even black list them if they're really awful, and you have your vote kick feature ALONG WITH the ability to replace party members mid-dungeon in the same way: according to your own criteria.

I'm not optimistic. @Velhart Yeah I'm getting a bad feeling about the direction of Duty Finder. When it comes to CT, it's akin to fear. I feel like it needs a lot more features that they're dragging their feet to implement. Come on, implement the loot-roll limitations already. We already have a token system, right? Vote-kick is great! Now let us "invite" people mid dungeon without having to roll the dice again with DF.

What is taking so long? D= I don't undestand ;____;

[EmiliM]

His vision is a flawed and broken one. You can't have a one fit meets all strategy. It does not work. Not saying at the end of the day FFXIV will not be successful, but it's not something that's going to be remembered for greatness either.

You're confusing vision with strategy. If your vision only goes as far as what you feel is realistic, then you won't get very far since you'll never push your comfort zone. Turning that vision into reality is obviously the big challege, but I'd rather have someone with Yoshida's vision in charge instead of someone who simply settles for what your average Joe thinks is realistic.

I'm not a Yoshida "cultist" since I don't agree or believe in everything he's said, but I do recognize his dedication and passion for this project and personally I feel it's better to have a leader like him than someone who simply does his job well but in the most boring way possible. As long as he's around, the game will continue to grow and change (no doubt sometimes for the worse), but at least it will not stagnate and die.

[Avalon_Albrook]

Duty Finder was most definitely the powerful matching system that he was talking about in the first letter. We devoted an entire Beta session to it. Not only did it shatter spectacularly at early access and launch, it's useless for about anything BUT the easiest of content.

My success with it, up to and including beating Titan HM in a one-shot after solo queueing in DF, disagrees with you.

[Aleksandr]

Exactly. We, as avid followers from Yoshi-P's rise to Producer to now, we can see all the context and understand what is going on better than most of the vocal people on the forums. Even coming in from patch 1.21 you would have missed some very interesting letters and poll results that would tell you exactly what kind of game he is making. All that information is there, ready and available to anyone who wants to read it. Problem is, no one seems interested in understanding when they can just take a cursory glance and complain. I can't wait till the game is in the state Yoshi-P wanted it to be.

Everyone who complains is invested in this game. They paid their hard earned money and they do not like what they paid for. They are not paying for the future vision they are paying for what they have today. Square-Enix is not a charity, it is a business so if they do not deliver a good time now, well most people are not going to pay several hundred dollars so a few years from now the vision is fully come to past. They game needs to be enjoyable now, next month, and continue forth as the vision grows. I have had fun up until this point, in the future when I do not I will quit.