What is going on with Square Enix and the 14 team?

[Kaurhz]

Did Yoshida ever say to "just unsub"?

No he eluded to that, by using the leaps in logic here -- Really,. He just said if you feel a content drought, then it's ok to play other games because it will just stop the demonstrable stress -- and that it was the best answer he could think of in order to maintain motivation. The amount of people that see this as some sort of malice response is shocking.

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海外ゲーマー
ミスター吉田、俺は『FFXIV』が大好きなんだ。でも、ずっとプレイし続けるのが辛くなってしまって、いまはゲームを休んでいるんだ。すまない。何かずっとゲームを続けるためのコツや、モチベーションがあれば教えてくれないか？
"Hey YoshiP, I love FFXIV, but it's hard to keep playing your game (because of the lack of content) and now I'm taking a break here. Sorry for asking this but is there a way or a reason to keep playing? or anything that can you teach me how to keep my motivation for playing your game?" - A player asking Yoshida during Gamescom

Yoshida's answer
無理して毎日やらなくていいよ。ゲームなんだし、辛いならやめればいい。むしろ、いまはたくさんゲームが発売されるから、ひとつに絞るのはストレスだよ。だから、メジャーパッチがでたら一気にプレイして、飽きる前にパッとやめて。ほかのゲームをやればいいよ。またメジャーがでたら戻ってくる。僕はそれがいちばんうれしいし、結果、それがいちばん長くゲームをプレイするコツだと思う。
Yoshida "It's alright not to play it everyday. Since it's just a game, you can stop forcing yourself if it's hard on you to keep that up. Rather, it'll just pile up unnecessary stress if you limit yourself into playing just that one game since there are so many other games out there. So, do come back and play it to your heart's content when the major patch kicks in, then stop it to play other games before you got burnt out, and then come back for another major patch. This will actually make me happier, and in the end, I think this is the best solution I can answer for keeping your motivation up for the game."

[IdowhatIwant]

No he eluded to that, by using the leaps in logic here -- Really,. He just said if you feel a content drought, then it's ok to play other games because it will just stop the demonstrable stress -- and that it was the best answer he could think of in order to maintain motivation. The amount of people that see this as some sort of malice response is shocking.

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I wouldn't say is a malicious response, but I wouldn't really say it is a good response either. But it is overly used on the forums.

Honestly? I like Yoshi-P but salvaging 1.0 into something playable wasn't that impressive a feat and neither was it something accomplished by a single person. Many of the same people who praise him for it have nothing but contempt for the ARR era these days which is to me an admission that actually things weren't all that great after all.

One group that really doesn't get any recognition in that process was the FFXI dev team. I heard they played a very large part in redesigning the game.

[QUOTE=Theodric;5939583]Honestly? I like Yoshi-P but salvaging 1.0 into something playable wasn't that impressive a feat and neither was it something accomplished by a single person. Many of the same people who praise him for it have nothing but contempt for the ARR era these days which is to me an admission that actually things weren't all that great after all.

To a large degree, I'd say it's more so the 'Final Fantasy' name that caused many people to give the game a second chance. Coincidentally, many of the other MMO's that are still chugging along these days also lean heavily on player nostalgia. GW2 has GW1 to tap into, ESO has the various Elder Scrolls games to work with and WoW did very well for itself whenever it referenced the Warcraft games.

I played the alpha for 1.0 and gave my feed back of "I would not recommend releasing this game in its current state, it needs a lot of work before it should be released". I ended up getting ARR cause WoW sucked at the time and a friend talked me into it. I remember hating the MSQ and not caring about it for the most part. I quit pretty quickly once I hit 50, and came back after second leviathan was released and starting progging through all the stuff to get to Coil. Personally I enjoyed it, I leveled everything to 50, raided with almost every class, had met really cool people that I still play games with today. Sadly most of them no longer play FFXIV for many reasons that I tend to complain about, I ended up becoming FC leader of my now dead FC where I met everyone that I used to play. It sucks.

But, yeah, the whole 'go play other games' never sat well with me because many of us do that already. It doesn't change the fact that when someone is up to date with FFXIV's patch cycle then there's often a lack of things to actually do that aren't just a tedious grind for the sake of a tedious grind. More content like Crystal Conflict that is easy to just jump right into with no setup would be wonderful.

I agree, the biggest problem to is when you mention you think FFXIV needs more content, people immediately assume it's just raid content or certain content. I think most aspects of this game needs more content or even new content. When they show that whole HW vs EW content stuff, I think it is actually sad that there has only been 1 new type of content released in all these expansions and I am honestly not even sure what it is.

[Kaurhz]

I wouldn't say is a malicious response, but I wouldn't really say it is a good response either. But it is overly used on the forums.

It isn't a good response, I wouldn't say. It could have opened up the chance for Yoshida to create a poll of what content they would like to see in the game, and then follow-up with said response in that people shouldn't feel as though they need to force themselves to play the game, because it is ultimately an unhealthy mentality. Regardless of whether a sub is or is not present in the business model.

That being said, it doesn't change the fact that people are using wild leaps in logic to try and construe these words in a way that wasn't even intended -- and are in fact try to elude to some form of malice.