New things from German interview with yoshida

[MagiusNecros]

As for the reaper thing...that's pretty obvious.

Scythe attacks
Voidsent oGCDS
Player+Voidsent is just that "symbiote" mode that I assume is a dps burst phase.

It reminds me of Berserker Guts, Hollow Ichigo, Eddie Brock/Venom and what have you.

I'm looking forward to learning more about both Sage and Reaper and what lies beyond what they've shown us.

[KizuyaKatogami]

I’m hoping for them to give more info on sage. Seems like they just devoted a lot of time to explaining Reaper and all we got for sage was “augments self attacks and shields”

[ItMe]

So... reaper was inspired by Death Note and Bleach, and not Bloodborne then?

[Shibi]

Q: A lot of players enjoy making new characters, but get scared of having to redo everything. Are there any plans to make Achievements, Minions and Mounts or even Glams account wide?
Short A: No
Longer A: There is NewGame+ if you want to play the story again, there are Fantasia if you want to change your looks and if you want to make a new char for RP get a level boost on the Mogstation

That's breathtakingly greedy (or ignorant) response for a game that insists on a full sub price. Oh well, their loss, I don't buy single character stuff from the cash shop. Guess I'll stop buying the account wide stuff as well.

Mostly, this an interview given in Japanese, translated to German, then translated again into English by Reddit.

There really is no guarantee that the subtext you find "ignorant" is a fair translation of Yoshi's words. After all, do you really ever expect Yoshi to say "Short answer: No?" In fact, if you run the article through google translate, it doesn't even say that, This is more like Reddit inserting shit.

What he says, according to google translate is:

Yoshi-P: To use the term alt (note: alternative character), in Final Fantasy 14 we want to make it so that players don't need alts. In Final Fantasy 14, there is a feature called NewGame+ that allows you to replay story sections you have already experienced. So even if the character's progress is already in the latest update, they can go back to A Realm Reborn and play here, for example, or even replay the entire Heavensward scenario. All of this can be done with the simple press of a button.

Of course, we also understand that players will want to change their character's appearance from time to time. For those players, we have the Fantasia potions that allow you to change the appearance and race. We offer this as a service to all players who are interested. We also understand that there are players who like to create a new character for role-playing, for example. Here we have the adventure stories where you can skip content and jump right in where you want to. And as I mentioned before, I highly recommend using the NewGame+ mode. This is a very quick and elegant process that every player should try.

Completely different to what Reddit said.

[Juzjuzz]

So... reaper was inspired by Death Note and Bleach, and not Bloodborne then?

It's all of them lol bloodborne is for the artifact gear.

[Raiya]

To be fair, I don't think he's necessarily wrong about such being the inspiration behind their design...

The addition of male viera has allowed the race to move away from that stereotype somewhat, but let's not forget that Yoshi-P himself is on record stating that he would be reluctant to add them because, in his own words, 'a male rabbit might be kind of weird'.



He's since changed his mind and the interview in question is from 2013 but still...

Yoshi: Male Might look kind of wierd...
Dev Team: We got this boss!
*Many months of dev time later*
SE: Sucessfuly Develops good looking Male Viera.

[ReynTime]

I mean, none of those are new. Except the unfortunate mention of Bleach as part of the influence.

[Yencat]

I feel like the angle of the ear bases means that hats would have to be quite big to line up with them? Which might look fine over hair, but it's hard to tell. They tend to have very bulky hairstyles as far as I can think.

The ear base isn't actually as big or as long as it looks there, the cut-outs in the hairstyles look like this (normally they're bald spots and not filled in, but this is the only image I could find showing the shape) everything around it is just fluff from the ears and not actually part of the base.

[WoW]

Honestly if people just blame the female hrothgar until they add hair fixes to both of the new races, I am going to be really salty. I find comments like these kinda baseless and annoying. We have no idea what is drawing on their resources unless they tell us openly about it.

You have no idea because you don't read what Yoshi P says. The man himself said it will take a massive amount of resources to make them. And even more once they're added. They're now working on female hrothgar. So good luck waiting for headgear till they're added and probably an expansion after adding them. And don't bring up COVID card, the pandemic only caused a delay, not a cut in content. They probably started working on the males since 5.1, which explains the decline in the amount of content since then. Bojza was even delayed to 5.35. So yes, the addition off male viera has caused loss of content and female hrothgar will cause even more.

[Theodric]

My personal view on the matter is that I'd have strongly preferred the existing playable races to be revamped with an expanded character customisation system and improved textures. I keep joking to a friend that some of the new housing furniture looks a lot more detailed than the likes of Highlander men, especially where their faces are concerned.

It was common enough feedback over the years, too - but for whatever reason the development team decided to add not one but two new playable races at the same. Not only did they do as much, they ended up having to add the missing genders in addition because naturally when people only get half of something, a lot of them want the full thing.

The situation would probably bother me less if it weren't for the fact that at least two rival MMO's have completely revamped their character customisation fairly recently and there's a couple of upcoming MMO's on the horizon that allow me to design a character more to my personal taste.

It is what it is, I suppose. I guess only time will tell if the older playable races will get some more love and attention...