If you could ask a single question to Yoshi-P, what would it be?

[Jeeqbit]

he didn't think F2P is a viable business model

He once said F2P wasn't a good business model for content and that the subscription fee is what allows all the content at its current frequency. At the time it seemed like other MMORPGs didn't get updates at the rate of 3.5 months like this game did, not to mention how it is trickled over sub-patches.

They have also said very recently that if the game released today, it would probably be F2P just because that is where the industry has gone, but they keep it the way it currently is because they know they would lose all their current players if they used a F2P model suddenly.

Would it be fair to say that the quality has gone down as the workload has increased?

The quantity of jobs has increased to where we have double what we had in ARR. You would think that might require more people to work on them, but there is not just job design to consider, but balance.

The more variables you have the harder it is to balance everything, so to keep the balance at ARR levels it seems that they are making 2 of every job per role play mostly the same with similar potencies.

Another factor is that if one job plays differently from another, people, including on these forums, start complaining that their job is at a disadvantage ie. "Paladin should get a gap closer" (which they did) or "Warrior shouldn't have to spend gauge to use gap closer" (which also got changed) or "DRK should get self-heals" (making it even closer to Warrior). The natural result of these sort of complaints is the very homogenization everyone complains about.

Yoshi-P also gave a specific example of how long it would take to make a Dragoon specification document in the noclip documentary (I don't know if this was a realistic example) but it was 2 hours to create a specification document for Dragoon. Given they have a whole 2 years and a half between 6.0 and 7.0, it's fair to say that a single person has plenty of time to make a document like this, so either they are juggling other tasks as well or they are just making controversial decisions in the specification document.

Plus it increases the chances of having a team member that's actually invested in the job or role

Given only BLM seems protected, I feel like anyone else on their team other than Yoshi-P maining a job has no impact. But sure, more concentrated focus on a job would be nice, it's just when you consider this one individual has 2 years and a half to do it, it really is a lot of time... I have played all the jobs to level 90 in that time and that was just at the start of the expansion...

Yeah, but people do get burned out when they do something for a very long time without breaks and rest and it might cause physical and mental health issues.

He creates a healthy work environment and forces people to take breaks before they get burned out. He also allows them to shift around roles if they are getting burned out with their current role. This was part of the reason for extending the break between patches from 3.5 months to 4 months plus holidays.

I remember reading he himself started sleeping properly relatively recently (I think he used to do the 4 hour sleep thing which is not healthy). It showed that he was doing that as well.

[Swordsman]

Also another good question would be: "do you have a better reason as to why Emet-Selch, Lahabrea, and Elidibus weren't sundered like the rest of the ancients?" That first answer he gave during the Live Letter was absolutely bogus.

[Aneshda]

Also another good question would be: "do you have a better reason as to why Emet-Selch, Lahabrea, and Elidibus weren't sundered like the rest of the ancients?" That first answer he gave during the Live Letter was absolutely bogus.

I was wondering the same. Why those 3 could survive the Sundering, why not many more?
They had every single possible way, with their Magic and Talents.
It is like "Help we are Godlike but to stupid to find a Way to save ourself".
There must be a better answer for this. Why those 3, why not 4, 5 or 10?
I don't believe that Venat shoved them in the right direction to let them get away to create all this destruction for 12000 years while she was just watching her "beloved" Children suffer and die.

[Local_Custard]

Will we ever get more lore on duskwights elezen and keepers of the moon miqote? Would love to see a sidequest related to this.