The Community Teams interview Yoshida in Japan!

[northernsky]

For those who can't wait, a quick overview of the French interview

Q:Is PS3 release still planned?
A: Yes, at all cost

Q:What's a typical developper's day?
A: There are several sub-teams, i-e the leaders, scenario, quests, world parameters, economy, combat, grand companies, lodestone, UI, tools, characters, animations etc.

Typical day depends on individual, Yoshi arrives at 10am and has meetings until 9pm, and replies to 230 emails a day. He lurks on the forums and leave office at 2-3 am.

Q:What type of game do you like?
A:RPG, action, FPS, combat. He likes assasin's creed, fallout, red dead redemption, and plays super street fighter 4 during his breaks. He loves MMO's like DIablo and diablo2, UO, dark age of camelot and WoW. DAoC was his fave for 6 years. Now he is interested in RIFT.

Q:Console or PC?
A:Both

Q: Do you play FFXIV as a player or only as a producer?
A: (sentence hard to understand with a double negation) not much, a bit during his free time, we may have seen his character, but he won't tell his name!

Q:What race?
A:Lalafell, they are so cute! And once we have PvP, they will be harder to target!

Q:Are you still afraid of planes?
A: Yes

Q:Mog house?
A: Not necessarily a 'mog house', but definitely private player housing. This will come along with major map redesign.

Q:When will we have new transportation?
A: airships and chocobos in 1.19. More details in august

Q:Can you sleep well with all this work?
A: Not really! but don't worry I'm fine

Q:Tea, coffee or hot chocolate for the dev team?
A: depends, but coffee wins! Probably one third of my blood is cafeine!

Q:How many sugars in coffee?
A: black coffee, but at 10pm, I may need sugar, so sometimes, 2 sugars!

[Seirra_Lanzce]

For those who can't wait, a quick overview of the French interview

Q:Is PS3 release still planned?
A: Yes, at all cost

Q:What's a typical developper's day?
A: There are several sub-teams, i-e the leaders, scenario, quests, world parameters, economy, combat, grand companies, lodestone, UI, tools, characters, animations etc.

Typical day depends on individual, Yoshi arrives at 10am and has meetings until 9pm, and replies to 230 emails a day. He lurks on the forums and leave office at 2-3 am.

Q:What type of game do you like?
A:RPG, action, FPS, combat. He likes assasin's creed, fallout, red dead redemption, and plays super street fighter 4 during his breaks. He loves MMO's like DIablo and diablo2, UO, dark age of camelot and WoW. DAoC was his fave for 6 years. Now he is interested in RIFT.

Q:Console or PC?
A:Both

Q: Do you play FFXIV as a player or only as a producer?
A: (sentence hard to understand with a double negation) not much, a bit during his free time, we may have seen his character, but he won't tell his name!

Q:What race?
A:Lalafell, they are so cute! And once we have PvP, they will be harder to target!

Q:Are you still afraid of planes?
A: Yes

Q:Mog house?
A: Not necessarily a 'mog house', but definitely private player housing. This will come along with major map redesign.

Q:When will we have new transportation?
A: airships and chocobos in 1.19. More details in august

Q:Can you sleep well with all this work?
A: Not really! but don't worry I'm fine

Q:Tea, coffee or hot chocolate for the dev team?
A: depends, but coffee wins! Probably one third of my blood is cafeine!

Q:How many sugars in coffee?
A: black coffee, but at 10pm, I may need sugar, so sometimes, 2 sugars!

I'll wait for our idol, Rukkirii come back with the official translation <3

[Sigmakan]

For those who can't wait, a quick overview of the French interview

Q:Is PS3 release still planned?
A: Yes, at all cost

Q:What's a typical developper's day?
A: There are several sub-teams, i-e the leaders, scenario, quests, world parameters, economy, combat, grand companies, lodestone, UI, tools, characters, animations etc.

Typical day depends on individual, Yoshi arrives at 10am and has meetings until 9pm, and replies to 230 emails a day. He lurks on the forums and leave office at 2-3 am.

Q:What type of game do you like?
A:RPG, action, FPS, combat. He likes assasin's creed, fallout, red dead redemption, and plays super street fighter 4 during his breaks. He loves MMO's like DIablo and diablo2, UO, dark age of camelot and WoW. DAoC was his fave for 6 years. Now he is interested in RIFT.

Q:Console or PC?
A:Both

Q: Do you play FFXIV as a player or only as a producer?
A: (sentence hard to understand with a double negation) not much, a bit during his free time, we may have seen his character, but he won't tell his name!

Q:What race?
A:Lalafell, they are so cute! And once we have PvP, they will be harder to target!

Q:Are you still afraid of planes?
A: Yes

Q:Mog house?
A: Not necessarily a 'mog house', but definitely private player housing. This will come along with major map redesign.

Q:When will we have new transportation?
A: airships and chocobos in 1.19. More details in august

Q:Can you sleep well with all this work?
A: Not really! but don't worry I'm fine

Q:Tea, coffee or hot chocolate for the dev team?
A: depends, but coffee wins! Probably one third of my blood is cafeine!

Q:How many sugars in coffee?
A: black coffee, but at 10pm, I may need sugar, so sometimes, 2 sugars!

Hmmm . . . these interviews need to be less about Yoshi and more about the game.

Also, I can imagine the Economy-team's meetings being very entertaining, as no such thing currently exists in the game.

[Perrin_Aybarra]

Q: Do you play FFXIV as a player or only as a producer?
A: (sentence hard to understand with a double negation) not much, a bit during his free time, we may have seen his character, but he won't tell his name!

He says that since his free time is almost non-existant, he only plays FFXIV while at work on his breaks. He says that when things calm down he thinks he will be able to play from home.

Q:How many sugars in coffee?
A: black coffee, but at 10pm, I may need sugar, so sometimes, 2 sugars!

and you got the time wrong 19h00 = 7pm

[northernsky]

He says that since his free time is almost non-existant, he only plays FFXIV while at work on his breaks. He says that when things calm down he thinks he will be able to play from home.

Yeah that's what I got too but the ''je ne peux uniquement jouer quand je suis au bureau'' was misformulated so I preferred to not interpret it.

Ah and you're right about the time, I did it really quick lol

[Chezen]

I trust Yoshi-P to manage his own sleep. As long as he doesn't kill himself or cause permanent damage, I have no right to question his judgement on how he handles it.

It's not a matter of questioning his judgement, it's about having a humanitarian concern for his health.

Besides, try running that line by a doctor. I can imagine a Spock eyebrow in answer.

[Abriael]

Conclusion: Yoshida is one hardcore fellow, Rukkirii is one of the most charming community managers I've seen in a long while

[Perrin_Aybarra]

Yeah that's what I got too but the ''je ne peux uniquement jouer quand je suis au bureau'' was misformulated so I preferred to not interpret it.

Yup it's not a good french syntax, either they need to remove the "ne" or put it like this : "Je ne peux uniquement jouer que quand je suis au bureau".

[giftforce]

Conclusion: Yoshida is one hardcore fellow, Rukkirii is one of the most charming community managers I've seen in a long while

Why don't you just marry her.

[Abriael]

Why don't you just marry her.

because my girlfriend wouldn't appreciate.