52 Minutes of Yoshi-P unleashed :D Here's my interview with our fearless leader

[Abriael]

As some of you may know, I got a chance to interview Yoshi-P at gamescom.

I apologize to those whose questions I didn't manage to ask, but I had to share Yoshi-P with two others, so the number of questions I was allowed wasn't super-high.

Here is it:
http://www.dualshockers.com/2014/08/...and-much-more/

Still, some pretty interesting stuff IMHO, including the tease that the expansion is gonna come sooner than players expect.

Yoshi-P talked a lot, laughed a lot, and was pretty much unstoppable, like our usual Yoshi-P.

You can also hear me making a complete fool out of myself by thinking we were gonna get another class/job besides ninja/rogue before the expansion. I'm not sure where I picked that up... but I guess my memory is faltering. I'm not getting any younger

[Morzy]

Awesome!!!!!!!! I didn't watch it all, i might not watch the rest. Think I'll just wait and see what happens as i usually do. BUT I was going to write down the questions/answered that were transpired. but as i said, i got bored and stopped. enjoy what I have.

Please note some might not be accurate. i did the best i could. Thank you for the video.

Q1: What is new these days. what is the most exciting part of final fantasy XIV for you?

A1 I'm a huge MMO fan and a PVP fan. Having these 3 large groups fighting against each other and sharing experiences is something i really enjoy. one thing that is good about pvp is you enver have the same sitation happening. each time you participate you have a different scenario. And seeing people from all over the world having fun really makes me happy as a developer, as well as a player. I'm really enjoying myself. nearly 250 battles i've participated in The Frontlines. To be honest, I haven't proceeded with the main quest line. So I'm really enjoying frontlines.
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Q2: So, uhh, very soon we will have Ninja and Rouge. Would you say there are more classes coming before the expansion? And if so will one be a tank. Can you ensure anything about it? at least the philosophy(i think..) behind it?

A2: I just want to clarify, because there might be some misunderstanding. There won't be any new jobs or classes added during the 2.0 series. 3.0 is the expansion what we are calling so before 3.0 there won't be any new jobs or classes other than Rouge or Ninja. The reason behind that is 3.0 will be comign very soon. i think sooner than the players anticipated.

A2.5 So of course with this new expansion pack 3.0 we want to make sure tehre are many surprises waiting the players, including the deep stroyline and many new "feels", a lot fo content and uh, there will be new classes and jobs. but that kind of information we would like to save for later expecially the festival will be happening soon in the 3 big cities all over the world. so until then please bare with me. In the mean time the ninja and rouge jobs and classes i decided to bring in because i always saw the scout class, the rouge class was missing from FFXIV and thats why i wanted to bring this job and class in now. And this is gonig to bring really new experiences to PVE and PVP. And with the frontlines we're going to add this "stealth" uh, actions for this class. so that will bring new tactics and new way of fighting in the frontlines. So players will be able to experience a new type of battle for both PVP and PVE. So before I talk about other jobs coming in the future i really hope you iwll enjoy this new ninja and Rouge class.
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Q3: Are there going to be stealth trains at the main gate? I know you know what I mean.

A3: that being said if everyone is going to be ninja then no one will get their outpost so maybe you will lose the battle so you will need to have good balance.
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Q4: Ok kool so I wanna come back to PVP for a moment. We see Frontlines being very popular. So have you given any thought to perhaps opening up any point of "world PVP" or even having PVE and PVP on two different servers(<--I believe this is correct.. but I was not completely sure.). Having a whole world that is just PVP.

A4: I don't have any plans at the moment, uhh but, uhh it all depends on the FEEDBACK I RECEIVE FROM THE COMMUNITY. Because I'm sure there are a lot of FFXIV players who are playing because it is a "Final Fantasy" game. And to those players if we open up their field for the PVP they might think "oh, this is not the Final Fantasy I was looking for..". so that's the reason I am very cautious and I'm very careful at making that type of decision but maybe if the players say "oh you're being overly cautious, it's fine. if you can open up but one server for PVP we WILL enjoy it!". So if I do receive a lot fo feedback from our players then yes we may consider it but it all depends on the feedback we receive from the players.
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Q5: As a PVP clan(<-- I think. not positive), would you like to be?

A5: Yes, I definitely like the idea.
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Sorry, but as much as I love to provide information, I'm not just about to spend the whole night transcribing 52 minutes of audio. I'm sorry for those that can't hear, but it simply isn't feasible, and I'm sure that those that can hear can easily make the minimal effort necessary to understand the (perfectly understandable) audio of the video.

This was my initial thought after trying for about.. 15 mins. it just takes too long. If you want to try like i did go right ahead. Hell I even reserved 2nd post for my would-be transcript. ._.

[Shake0615]

Ninja will have stealth in Frontlines? No thank you.

[Elven]

Did you ask when or if it's coming to Xbox?

[Abriael]

Did you ask when or if it's coming to Xbox?

Yes, I did. And Yoshi said he'd love to do it right now and they're ready to do it whenever, but for now Microsoft's being stubborn, so it won't happen until they accept cross-platform servers, and Yoshi thinks it won't happen at least for this year.

[Stridentzephon]

This is seriously not that had to understand and/or follow. They are very clear and even with the back ground noise its very clear. Even with the title it gives a basic overview of the interview.

He likes frontlines pvp.
No more new classes before 3.0.
3.0 is "MUCH" closer then players expect. Which I hope is like Feb or March since most say June next year.
Xbox One port is already pretty much designed but they are waiting for Mirco. to agree.
He points out and expresses that ps3 is good but PC and ps4 are better choices for the game.
In Asia console is 50/50. Usa is 25% console so the market is their for the port to xbox one.
They ask will a FF character that died in a previous FF series will they make a return they said no. I only got to 26 mins.
Dx11 is "looking" good and pretty but you can not see a big change besides in the water. Unless you have high end pc and card.

[Shougun]

Q: We did a survey with our readers on which FF character they'd like to see- the results weren't clear because everyone wanted to see everyone... except Lightning.

Silent laughs passed around the table.*

I seriously lol'd.. XD



*They're not that silent as Abriael pointed out, but at the mention of Lightning Yoshida was already smiling XD

[Ilitsa]

a transcript would be amazing. Thanks for posting this and everything, always appreciate the articles you've done for this game, thanks again, Abriael, and though he'd prolly never see this, Yoshi-P and his entire team for the amazing work they all do here.

Edit: Wow this thread blew up while I was watching =O I'll see what I can do about getting it written out, if everyone would like, I have no problem at all spending the time to do so.

[Welsper59]

The hunt response is VERY important for people to hear from 39:25 of the video. Those of us that believed that things were not intended to be the way they are now, even with proof from before, now have after-the-fact confirmation that things are not being done as intended now. They were not to be intended for so many people to be killing all of them. Bs were intended for the solo player to just go for and not worry about other people, and so on.

[Dotsusama]

Those of us hoping for a transcript or a summary can always just wait and see if Secrets of Eorzea gets a chance to interview him again, though it doesn't seem like from a casual listen that this has anything new that he didn't cover in last month's Japan Expo interview (which has a full transcript and no lengthy video to sit through).