TIME: Interview with Yoshi

[Acyd]

The fact he mentioned Red Mage on his own, kinda like a teaser. Made me soooooooooo happy =)

[Alipoprocks]

I don't know if I'm happy or sad about the mention of the spec tree.

[Ulathskullsplitter]

He mentions he is currently into Game of Thrones. Might explain the darker turn the main story took. And the big death and possibly deaths of other major characters. Blame GRRM for the deaths. He's not happy just killing off his own characters anymore.

[HeavensSword]

I don't know if I'm happy or sad about the mention of the spec tree.

I'm the same way. I read that and just paused a bit, trying to figure out how I would feel if that became a thing in this game. I'd really rather they just try and design the support/hybrid roles.

[Drako]

The fact he mentioned Red Mage on his own, kinda like a teaser. Made me soooooooooo happy =)

Ya all I saw in that whole article was Red Mage. If they bring it to XIV, I'm hanging up my other jobs! <3 RDM.

[Waliel]

I don't know if I'm happy or sad about the mention of the spec tree.

Final Fantasy XIV’s core concept is to have the freedom to play each role through the Armoury System, so we may explore new directions through a skill tree, in which the player’s job will be determined by what actions have been obtained.

How I understood that is instead of choosing job X and getting Y skills, you choose Z number of skills and get job X based on that.

[Starlord]

4 million accounts? I doubt that, maybe 4 million characters.

Edit I should have said 4 Million ACTIVE accounts? Who cares about Registered Accounts. Cause I know a lot of people who played the free trial and that was it for them. It says 4 million Registered account, Registered and Active accounts are two different things. There could be 10 million Registered accounts but if only 1 million are Active that's a big deal. I mean even with less than a million subs SE is still making enough money. SE is shady when it comes to releasing this info, I remember last year around this time there was only like 500k active subs.

While there probably isn't 4 million "active" subs. there is probably at the very least 1 million of those users active. Which is still great considering what Yoshi-P was aiming for 250-300k.

The game is a great success.

[Blueyes]

I don't know if I'm happy or sad about the mention of the spec tree.

I honestly wouldn't worry about it too much. The way he describes how it could work sounded strikingly similar to the concept of having classes split off into two jobs; a concept that was abandoned pretty quickly. Personally I don't see it panning out. What might be more likely would be having a system similar to FFXI's Merit system which allowed minor customization with a handful of optional abilities catering to specific play styles.

How I understood that is instead of choosing job X and getting Y skills, you choose Z number of skills and get job X based on that.

That actually isn't far off from the original 1.0 concept which had a much stronger focus on the use of cross class abilities with the idea of having players "define their own class." I can't imagine they would ever go back to that considering classes are more or less ceasing to be developed further as of late. I took his response as more a hypothetical "if we were to do that it would probably work something like this" and not something that is actually being planned to happen.

[Iromi]

Yoshida said RDM was his favorite job...haha

In the past he said DRK and Machinist were also his favorite..that is how I guessed and predicted the jobs So..looks like, if it follows his trend..RDM will be next hehe hurray

[Bluevann]

I look forward to seeing all of our players enter the land of Ishgard.

with voice overs in many of the cut scenes.

I take my hat off to our script writers, localization team, and sound team.

we introduced non-combat-focused elements such as player housing (...) for players to enjoy.

I'll agree to disagree.