Yoshi-P is just Ion Hazzikostas with a good attendance card

[WeebPolice]

Holy crud, this thread is based LMAO.

[Tanis_Ebonhart]

There's a huge difference between the two. I forgive you for being naive to the facts, TC. You don't play WoW, so you don't know all the damage Ion has done and his open hatred of the players. Much of the bad choices from BFA and SL are from Ion.

[Shinkuno]

There's a huge difference between the two. I forgive you for being naive to the facts, TC. You don't play WoW, so you don't know all the damage Ion has done and his open hatred of the players. Much of the bad choices from BFA and SL are from Ion.

Nothing makes me feel more respected as a player than YoshiP telling me to just play ultimates if i want to enjoy healers /s

[TheMightyMollusk]

[Tanis_Ebonhart]

Nothing makes me feel more respected as a player than YoshiP telling me to just play ultimates if i want to enjoy healers /s

He never said that you can only enjoy healing in ultimates, and clearly a lot enjoy healers as they are. Especially since the easiest healer, Scholar, is played far more than the harder healer job like Astrologist.

That also doesn't even compare to Ion telling High Elf fans to roll Horde or quit as the Alliance was never gonna get High Elves. Then he forced out Void Elves who could only be Blue and was angry and spiteful that fans didn't praise him. Then after he was forced to add in High Elf skin tones, due to the massive backlash, to the Void Elves that he made sure that Void Elves never got anything ever again after that. They're excluded from every Void storyline that has happened in WoW since Legion and their Void Elf customization topic thread has been going on for years and not one thing was ever added in or considered despite many of the options being easy additions as they already use assets already in the game.

Then there's the Flying controversy and how Ion wanted it removed and when fans quit over it in large numbers he backtracked then added in Pathfinder out of spite which plagued the game for years. With Battle for Azeroth Pathfinder being the most brutal and only just got removed a few months ago in Dragonflight. Two expansions later. If BFA and SL didn't cause mass exodus from WoW then WoW would still have Pathfinder.

Then there's him admitting that they designed Raids and M+ around Weakauras/DBM/GTFO/other addons and told players that didn't use it that they were out of luck.

[Renalt]

[Renalt]

Let's be real...all jobs are easiest.

[Tanis_Ebonhart]

Let's be real...all jobs are easiest.

If that was the case then there wouldn't be a big difference between Scholar and Astrologist in the healer role.

[Avoidy]

I don't know who Ion Hazzikostas is, but I often wonder if Yoshi is just a PR genius. What he's accomplished is actually really impressive. He's so charismatic to his fans that any critique of Final Fantasy XIV becomes a critique on its idolized lead developer. We saw this most prominently during the EW delays, where Yoshida wept on a livestream while announcing the change of date. Imagine if Blizzard had delayed an expansion like this. Their good will is so spent; their fans would've burned it all to the ground. But over here, the head of the development team has a face and a personality and it's a lot harder to be highly critical because of it. Even for me, someone who loves complaining online, it's hard to do because I "feel" like Yoshi actually cares about the game and its fans and it feels less like criticizing a nameless corporation and more like criticizing a fun game-loving former-mmo-enjoying uncle or something.

I catch myself feeling this way and wonder "what if it's all by design?" a lot. For example, when Yoshida told everyone to quit when they're bored, while being an ex-mmo player who knows exactly how difficult it is to really walk away from an mmo and also implementing housing demolition. With all of that in mind, it feels like "just quit" might be similar to a drug dealer telling the junkie to just stop. Like, you've implemented systems in your own game to make people feel bad about stopping. And you've played MMOs in the past so you know how it feels to be on the player side. I wonder if it was just a bluff for him to say that, and whether or not he knew how much it'd pay off for him. Because now, thanks to that statement, the game can go several months with no content and anyone who asks why this is the case gets yoshi's words echoed back at them by yoshi's fans. In hindsight, it was a brilliant move. Maybe it was calculated. Maybe it was luck. I don't really know.

[Mcg55ss]

Wrong, Ion can at least make decent raid content. Yoshi P is more of a Vanna White of FFXIV.

Lol yes make Raid content that on release he has to nerf 75% cuz he overtuned it so much such good content. Though to be fair it has been a while since he's done that, now if only he can make interesting content for the rest of the game eh maybe after Microsoft fires him and replaces him with someone else retail might actually be able to compete with a 20yr old version of the game.