Mr.Happy Interview with Yoshi P

[Dyvid]

Considering they sell carbuncle housing items, carbuncle gear, & carbuncle mounts in the Mogstation, on top of also selling real world carbuncle merch... I think it's safe to assume they're not getting axed.

I was going to include a link of Ryan Reynolds chopping wood but I'll let you find it on youtube. Just remember, we're friends right? We're having fun.

[ForteNightshade]

Considering they sell carbuncle housing items, carbuncle gear, & carbuncle mounts in the Mogstation, on top of also selling real world carbuncle merch... I think it's safe to assume they're not getting axed.

I sincerely doubt they'll base the future of an entire job around whether people like carbuncles. They'll either be moved to a purely cosmetic function of some sort or could be the base catalyst for when we don't have a Demi-Summon out since they'll have to be some down phase. Either way, if Demi-Summons are the direction they're going and that means no more Carbuncles. They'll make that sacrifice.

[CKNovel]

Kinda disappointing by both of these interviews.
At least it's not at the level of "We WilL flOAt oN tHe MoOn?" or information about if there is oxygen in space.

About Frosty's interview
I hope we don't get to see anymore 48 man content, I know they want more largescale content but the clear rate is so low, rewards are bad and getting 47 other players together, hell no.
Kinda amazing how they focus so much on making sure the melees don't miss 4 GCDs, hope it means they'll focus aswell on making the physical ranged, Yoshida completely dodged the topic. I can feel they want to babysit the community so much they'll remove positionnals.

About challenges on savage such as some clear time, it's a good question. Kinda wish we'd have unreal for savage, that you must clear once to get the reward.
About pvp and small scale content... I love responsibilities, that's why I choose physical ranged. Anyone dislikes being an important part of a small team and would rather like to be an insignificant member of a big group? Let's be honest, it's about carrying the masses that feel that the game is too hard. However about the pvp question, next liveletter is in a week, why not simply wait rather than ask a question Yoshida will avoid? New reward system is neat thought.

Chocobo racing and gold saucer... Honestly I don't care about the question, but it's relevant to the MMO-JRPG part of the game and the community that does anything else than battle content. Same about the other mini games, it's "why not" questions.

About Mr.Happy interview
I think Yoshida talked about how 6.0 will end straight away unlike previous expansion, was it necessary to ask about the challenges the team will meet? Nothing will change except the MSQ.
Ultimate development can be fine, I guess. But appartment enhancement...? At this point why not ask about housing? Question about Egi-glamour is weird, I mean at this point we all figured that it was abandonned for SMN rework or at most post-poned. You get 10 questions, why ask something anyone with 2 functionnal brain cells can figure out?

Fates and CE, good question. I love CE, problem is that we won't have Lost actions for it or going in with a chocobo might need extra work.
"It took me 92 kills of Emerald weapon before I saw a MNK weapon!" Pretty please, that's why tokens exists. Update on the loot can be a good thing as long as they include mounts purchasable from the beginning.
Collab like MH, good. Quests number, ARR was revamped and I don't see anyone claiming there's too much HW quests.

Overrall... I don't know if they actually choose the questions. Thought, Yoshida sometimes avoid questions, other time he adds details that can interest the community.
No questions on how ShB contents was received and evaluated by the Devs, did the team learned something from Bozja front, Ishgard restauration? Is there mistakes from these content they want to absolutely avoid in the future?
I'm sure BRD players would take a scrap of information at this point, even something as light as "We're on it" from Yoshida. Or even about the Infuriate copy-paste to other jobs such as DRK.
Not great questions apart from a few and the way Yoshida envisions challenging content is really scary.

[Sotaris]

Not to mention, most if not all question was probably vetted by SE PR ahead of time.

[DontReadThis]

I really hope that we, if they go away with pets, are still able to somehow summon our carbuncles. I just love them and it would be sad if they are gone. After all I choose that job because I love pet jobs and because the carbuncles looked so cute.

I could see them reworking carbuncles from combat pets into something you summon just to give yourself some kind of permanent buff. Something like Aplhinaud's carbuncle in trust dungeons that gives you a damage buff.

[DrWho2010]

do you really think they're just going to answer any question given? all questions have to be approved ahead of time.

[Xeronia]

I somehow don't see the pets fully getting removed due to how much re-writing it would take in ACN/SMN job quests and in regards to the MSQ with Tataru in ARR.

I personally would rather see then Demi's be shifted onto the egi assualt/egi enkindle system and become permanent as it solves a lot of the ghosting issues in SMN due to Demi's while retaining them as upgrades to the base egi's. It also removes a ton of SMN's rotation length down if say Bahamut becomes a permanent upgrade to Ifirit and Phoenix becomes a permanent upgrade to Garuda. All that is needed then is a third new "big" egi for Titan to upgrade into.

[ForteNightshade]

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For some clarification, Happy said he submitted these questions several months ago hence asking about the struggles with Covid. It was more relevant when he was actually asking than now. Both he and Frosty, apparently, submitted a handful of questions which Yoshida chooses. Happy's said he tends to avoid too many controversial questions because they won't answer them. The Egi-glamour is more a meme on by his stream community since he and Twitch chat frequently joke how it'll never happen. To be fair, Yoshida gave a much better answer than I would have expected; more or less confirming a serious SMN overhaul.

[StriderShinryu]

Happy's said he tends to avoid too many controversial questions because they won't answer them.

Exactly. It's easy to say "Why didn't they ask this super specific hardcore question?!?" but then would complain if YoshiP just answered it with "We can't talk about that" or "Just said 'Yes' or 'No' with no explanation. There's already enough complaining about YoshiP dodging questions already. And of course the questions were vetted ahead of time too. First off, the first time you tried to pin YoshiP down for some sort of controversial hot take question is the last time you'd get a chance to ask him any questions at all and secondly, YoshiP isn't going to answer any questions he doesn't want to anyway. So why waste your chance at asking a question just to try to feel like a big man?

[Sotaris]

True but feels kinda self-censored in a way not allowed ask anything we as players may want to know. Not much they can do about it, SE decides and can put them on a "blacklist" at any point.