Yoshi-P Game Focus Interview translated summary

[JunseiKei]

the patch 3.1 from HW release was a little over 5 months, cuz they took a break and how dare they! :P Children in Azeroth have to wait for over a year to get stuff.....you insensitive bastages :P

http://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Category:Patches
Patches with their release dates and content. Okay- 3.0 and 3.1 was 5 months, yes. However, again, patch 3.01 and 3.05 were still content patches and contained new content. Are you guys trying to imply there was nothing new between 3.0 and 3.1? So while a break may have been taken, there was no break in pushed content. Which had been my original reply to iluvOP's comment of no new content for 6 months.

[Gumbercules]

http://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Category:Patches snip.

Ahh i see where you are coming from. People tend to ignore the "minor" patches as content, myself included i wont lie XD Since these namely lend themselves to late/gated implementations and balancing/bugs. Using your Alexander example for instance, that was still technically release content it was jsut time gated, and had a minor patch introduce it. My overall point is that they were at most only behind schedule by a month, since they had already stated that 3.1 was 4 months away instead of the usual 3 and then they had to take a vacation, even on this one Yoshi said he was becoming concerned for his teams health lol. So the delay was most definitely nowhere near 5 months of them chillaxing on some beach lol

[ErryK]

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As far as patches go for me, I lump the #.xx patches with the #.x patch. I just wasn't seeing that the other person's post specifically said "literally no new content", they're just uninformed.

[Texa]

even on this one Yoshi said he was becoming concerned for his teams health lol. So the delay was most definitely nowhere near 5 months of them chillaxing on some beach lol

The situation would have had to have been pretty bad even by Japanese workplace standards for him to make that statement too. One would have to wonder what point it had to reach for him to speak out about workplace conditions in a country where spending 10-15 hours in the office a day is considered normal.

[Gumbercules]

The situation would have had to have been pretty bad even by Japanese workplace standards for him to make that statement too. One would have to wonder what point it had to reach for him to speak out about workplace conditions in a country where spending 10-15 hours in the office a day is considered normal.

Yeah XD I mean he obviously said it with a humorous undertone but even then its very outta the norm for Japan. Reminds me of when he was talking about losing all the people he had during the 1.0-2.0 transition, again in a humorous undertone but i was like "eep! stop you gonna get canned!" XD

[JunseiKei]

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Now you understand my confusion! xD I didn't understand why people were saying no content for 5/6 months when... t-there was! However, yeah, the team got pushed hard and I think a lot of players forgot that. From putting in rogue, ninja, astrologian, dark knight, machinist (which Yoshi himself had said the team wasn't too happy about the pressure on adding in so many classes/jobs in so short of a time frame when 1 class has roughly the develop cycle of 1 year), plus 3.0 and all the content brought, flying, Alexander (even though it was in a patch later, the main meat of it still needed to be done) and all of the new skills and job balancing act.

To be fair, the team that has been working on FFXIV has been doing a marvelous job, especially when you know how long things take to develop until you get it before your eyes as playable content. To say they needed a break was probably an understatement.

[Yasuhiro]

"Yoshida's favorite Final Fantasy character is Sephiroth"

That's pretty interesting, I knew he was a Final Fantasy VII fan so it makes sense, always thought he was a bigger fan of III though will all the playable content that comes from that game.

[Shurrikhan]

The developers understand that Final Fantasy XIV’s first half isn’t that fun, but something they wonder about is whether it’d be a good idea to introduce complicated skills and systems to new players from the get-go.

I'm fairly surprised they are actually aware that the first half of ARR is kind of boring.
It makes sense what he explains as the reason, but still, I feel it is a bit of a weak response to just ignore how that makes the MMO veterans feel who join the game.

This is the part that's gotten me thinking, too. I feel like they too often see these two larger ends of the spectrum at inherently in conflict, even when there are myriad elements that make up whether something in considered overly complicated, dull, or both, to a specific player at a specific time. A player should feel like entering ever growing domains over the leveling experience, ever excited to find out more about what makes up the systems involved, and XIV just doesn't really do that — certainly less so, as far as I can notice, than most single-player FF games. But improving interest for player A doesn't have to come at the cost of confusion for player B. It just has to be done right.

[Korbash]

As a female, one of the reasons I often play male characters is because in MMOs female characters often have slutty armor not covering much, so to avoid that I end up making male alts.

[Belhi]

As a female, one of the reasons I often play male characters is because in MMOs female characters often have slutty armor not covering much, so to avoid that I end up making male alts.

In FF14's defence, most of the sets people would think of as 'slutty' are that way for both Males and Females. This game has no issue with scantly clad men. :P