Yoshi P & other dev comments & statements

[Rufalus]

I don't see anyone knowingly lying. Some people just wanna interpret things that way. Yoshida isn't promising things to 100% be a certain way and staying that way forever. It's game development so he's just saying what they can reasonably do in that moment. They implement something and see how that goes re: player trends and server performance, then make changes if they are needed and technically feasible.

They could add lots more storage and housing wards right now but server performance is top priority, can't make the game experience more sluggish or error prone. All these increases are done gradually and carefully whenever they are confident about solving server processing bottlenecks.

[Axxion]

I don't know what this is about lying. I've not seen anything in the interviews that turned out to be a lie. Usually he tells us things that he is working on and then we see it within the following 3 years of that interview. He teased data center travel vaguely (and we got it) and he teased the captain rank vaguely (and we got it). The arguments about glamour dresser space were most likely explaining that it was difficult to increase storage space and that it can't be done without adding some more storage to the data center. There have been a number of hardware maintenance since every interview that this has been discussed so that the dresser space could be increased. Sometimes he says things that he believes at the time and changes his mind based on the feedback, such as displaying the powerful mark message.

These interviews are also subject to translation errors or can be misinterpreted.

you need to take in consideration of the live letters and/or fanfest . Take for instance back in hw and job balancing. Yoshi P himself claimed that pld was strong. But once you dabble with it and see what the other tanks offered it was false. And yes that is true that he will change his mind but for those that "breath" his words will lap that up

Cross-class was a poor man's version of taking a sub job in other FF games which only works if you have a job system that interacts with each other which it doesn't here. It could but it just doesn't.

I think the more critical members of the playerbase might be more understanding if they were honest about why they change things. Especially in their patch notes.

This i cannot agree more with. If they explain the changes like they are doing now it will be a bit easier to understand

what people forget is that Yoshi P is not their friend..

Anyone else remember the time that he helped someone pop the question during a fanfest?

[Tsiron]

Hopefully their next decision is getting rid of the stupid locked by class glam!

Was debating bringing up this very subject lol

[Payadopa]

Honestly a lot of these statements don't mean much.

We were never supposed to get more glamour dresser space, but it eventually got doubled.

We we never supposed to get more glam set slots, we got them.

Stuff that was said years ago can change tomorrow.

Or headgear and ears. *cough*

[Jeeqbit]

you need to take in consideration of the live letters and/or fanfest . Take for instance back in hw and job balancing. Yoshi P himself claimed that pld was strong. But once you dabble with it and see what the other tanks offered it was false. And yes that is true that he will change his mind but for those that "breath" his words will lap that up

Although it would have been nice if I could block magic then, I didn't have any practical problem doing savage as a PLD in HW.

It's exactly these sort of requests to "balance" it that led to what some people perceive as homogenization though, so they can't win whichever path they take.

[ReynTime]

Honestly a lot of these statements don't mean much.

We were never supposed to get more glamour dresser space, but it eventually got doubled.

We we never supposed to get more glam set slots, we got them.

Stuff that was said years ago can change tomorrow.

Yes ever since pre ARR days they have always said things that they end up changing their minds about.
Like housing for FC and individual players supposed to be completely separate with different pricing, or the combat supposed to reward effort and innovation, no plans for a playable race after Au'ra, no plans for challenging light-party content, etc.

[Iyrnthota]

Yes ever since pre ARR days they have always said things that they end up changing their minds about.
Like housing for FC and individual players supposed to be completely separate with different pricing, or the combat supposed to reward effort and innovation, no plans for a playable race after Au'ra, no plans for challenging light-party content, etc.

Makes sense I suppose. Hard to know what you might have the budget or scope for years later. Maybe your priorities get reconsidered based on user feedback. Some enterprising young coder comes up with a workaround for some previously thought impassable obstacle.

Plenty of reasons why they might "change their minds".

Seems more appropriate to translate "we can't do that" as "we won't be doing that for the forseeable future".

[Midareyukki]

They made a lot of these over the years on why X reason can or cannot happen or it still being planned for the future.

Or why X reason was added or removed.

I noticed sometime we get users here that are not aware of those comments (including myself), should there be a pinned topic to archive all this or is there a site that has compiled all of these?

You mean this post by Aniya_Estlihn on the 13th page of the thread "Glamours: Re-work the entire system"?

[ReynTime]

Cross-class was a poor man's version of taking a sub job in other FF games which only works if you have a job system that interacts with each other which it doesn't here. It could but it just doesn't.

I think the more critical members of the playerbase might be more understanding if they were honest about why they change things. Especially in their patch notes.

Cross class was a poor man's version of 1.0's job system, which was an unbalanced implementation of the job system from FFV.

[Kaurhz]

Pointless, really. People will just create their own little headcanon about what the developers do and don't do, as well as the issues themselves, or at the very least the cause/reason for said issues, regardless of what the developers say.

Personally, I'm also not interested in people playing Simon says with comments and further misconstruing and misrepresenting them.