When will fans turn on Yoshi P?

[gotaname1]

Well atleast he some what of an excuse due to language barrier.. wow doesn't and deliberately ignores players lol

*puts on tinfoil hat* what if, in a world with a mostly english oriented internet and with plenty of sources/people that can translate, the language barrier is just an excuse to ignore a portion of the players? >

[Alexandre_Noireau]

*puts on tinfoil hat* what if, in a world with a mostly english oriented internet and with plenty of sources/people that can translate, the language barrier is just an excuse to ignore a portion of the players? >

Like giving latin americans a proper datacenter.

[Ronduwil]

That disdain is well-earned. In fact, setting aside recent events, it's largely disdain that's bred from disdain.

Can you imagine if SE decided that Aetheryte Crystals were destroying the open world and making it feel less alive, so they unilaterally deleted most of them without any warning or feedback so that they could arbitrarily have only one per zone? I don't think anyone who exclusively plays this game can even imagine that happening. Blizzard pretty much did this a couple of years ago when they removed a ton of portals from WoW. When players complained on the forums, they doubled down on their stance that they did it to bring the open world and the major cities back to life. I see far more people in the open world in FFXIV than I ever saw in WoW. It's funny how a game that allows flying without time gates and provides cheap instant teleportation still manages to feel alive. It's almost like if you actually provide stuff to do in the world, people will engage with it. Forcing engagement by removing convenience is about the laziest design philosophy I've ever encountered.

[Divinemights]

Ffxiv is a cool game and all....but it’s quite a stretch to say Yoshi listens to us, lol. Unless a post has an absurd amount of up votes, chances are he won’t listen. And even if it does get a lot of up votes, it’s not even guaranteed to happen.

He listen to players that is logic, sane, and understand for the most.
No one will listen to dumb, illogical, or out of place request.

[Noumenon]

It’s possible that they won’t get an expansion right. If that happens, the fans will turn on the face of Final Fantasy IV, Yoshi. It happened with WoW, will it happen with FFXIV? There will be more years of the game, yes, but will he still be in touch with what the players want?

Not yet in Endwalker, but who's to say. It seems like it's finally starting to turn.

[Turtledeluxe]

It is happening already imo since his biggest fans only have one solution and that is to unsub, which I'm definitely doing right after the new patch because honestly, it's what everyone else is doing. When I see what some people are saying about the game and how it's going in a great direction it makes me realize it really isn't for me and I'm definitely not that person. I got into the game because I like FF, not because I'm an mmo fan. Seems weird that I'm the one calling for it to be less single player but that's what the core audience enjoys aside from cheating their way through Ultimates.

SE is frantically trying to attract new players to replace all the displeased people and Yoshi P is paralyzed by his cult, so it's a lose lose situation.

[Kaliesto]

I don't know if its Yoshi P that is problem, but more who are the developers co-working with him that could be the problem? Battle Designer? Code Designer? Etc?

Because isn't Yoshi P just the figurehead? How much input does he really have?

[Jojoya]

I don't know if its Yoshi P that is problem, but more who are the developers co-working with him that could be the problem? Battle Designer? Code Designer? Etc?

Because isn't Yoshi P just the figurehead? How much input does he really have?

If he was just the Producer like he is for XVI, then he'd mostly be just the figurehead as far as players are concerned. But as Game Director also, he has to make sure that all the different teams' work come together for what's released. He does have input though he's not directly responsible for creating the content as such.

[Jeeqbit]

I don't know if its Yoshi P that is problem, but more who are the developers co-working with him that could be the problem? Battle Designer? Code Designer? Etc?

They could possibly be the ones saying it has to continue to have all these issues with inventory being carried with you into duties, lack of instanced housing and UI issues (I still remember how the UI person's response to all our questions was "impossible" then subsequently went back on some of it proving that wrong).

isn't Yoshi P just the figurehead?

Absolutely not. He has a huge amount of input and it is very much him that is responsible for everything.

When the story isn't very good or a cutscene isn't very exciting, he tells them to make it better. When a savage raid is boring or too longwinded, he tells them to redo it or shorten a phase and add something else. He played through the Endwalker MSQ several times just to decide what time the sidequests should become available and then delayed the Endwalker release date by a week to add in a cutscene at the end.

You can see through past through interviews, that his perspective on things such as job uniqueness and complexity shifted over time and once it had shifted enough to the casual direction of "jobs don't necessarily need to be hard to play just fun", that's when everything changed about them, because it's he who decides and approves this.

A battle designer did recently give the impression in an interview that things such as the 2-minute burst window or the larger hitboxes was their idea, but a lot of their team would have been involved with making these changes so it was more likely a collective decision.

Yoshi-P is the person in charge and obviously approves everything and says no when he disagrees, so it is 100% correct to say the buck stops there.

[AnnRam]

When SE blocks mods / Mare and removes DC travel.