Maybe Yoshi is just tired of the game?

[yaba_gabagool]

Perhaps Square wants to keep ff14 alive, and Yoshi just wants to make a new mmo.

Maybe that's why he's so bitter about the state of class balance?

[Jeeqbit]

No, he said he would still play this game if he wasn't the producer and director. He would just complain to the developers instead.

[Limecat]

I don't know that bitterness enters the equation anywhere, but I wouldn't begrudge them being bored of it by now. It's like a manga that goes on hundreds of chapters after it should have ended with new stakes constantly being invented, because the IP keeps printing money. If anything it makes me appreciate XI more for being allowed to have a definitive ending, and well-encapsulated expansion stories that were their own things.

[Jeeqbit]

It's like a manga that goes on hundreds of chapters after it should have ended with new stakes constantly being invented

Well that is why they ended the arc.

because the IP keeps printing money.

Well sort of but it was also sort of the plan that an MMORPG would last a long time compared to a normal game.

[Oizen]

I'm pretty sure he's just a spokesman

[AnimaAnimus]

He did mention years ago that he would love to make a new mmo that was pure high fantasy and that he didn't really care for the tech but since they were introduced before he took over he had no choice but to keep them in game. He also mentioned things like he would have created different races instead of using the ones from FFXI. They also wanted to make XIV a lot darker with more Game of Thrones sort of intrigue, but the ppl above him were not happy with this and said that the game had to be more happy and fun so they had to rewrite a lot of the story arcs they originally came up with for HW and beyond. Which you can see not only in the ending of ARR but also the trailer for HW and in the lyrics to it's theme, which was already in production/complete when these decisions were made.

There was a few other things he mentioned but that was like 7-8 years ago he was talking about it, so idr the details.

[Saraide]

Perhaps Square wants to keep ff14 alive, and Yoshi just wants to make a new mmo.

Maybe that's why he's so bitter about the state of class balance?

Why would he be bitter about class balance? BLM is in a pretty good place from what I've heard.

[Jeeqbit]

He did mention years ago that he would love to make a new mmo that was pure high fantasy and that he didn't really care for the tech but since they were introduced before he took over he had no choice but to keep them in game.

That right there is why he wiped out the Garleans, leaving just a fragment (the ironworks) to explain away events like the FF15 crossover.

They also wanted to make XIV a lot darker with more Game of Thrones sort of intrigue, but the ppl above him were not happy with this and said that the game had to be more happy and fun so they had to rewrite a lot of the story arcs they originally came up with for HW and beyond.

It's also got to do with the laws in various countries. For a game that can be played in a lot of different countries, they don't want to get in trouble and that's why they don't show much blood or they show it as something else.

For FF16, they increased the age rating, but I think they know that people below that age will find a way to play it regardless.

[AnimaAnimus]

It's also got to do with the laws in various countries. For a game that can be played in a lot of different countries, they don't want to get in trouble and that's why they don't show much blood or they show it as something else.

For FF16, they increased the age rating, but I think they know that people below that age will find a way to play it regardless.

iirc it wasn't about blood and gore necessarily, like there wasn't going to be a red wedding, it was about dark themes and drama. The ppl on high, since Yoshida didn't have the same pull yet he does now, didn't like the thought of a dark FF title at that time. They wanted more happy, wholesome goodness in their mmo. So nothing could be too dark, good guy deaths had to be heroic and clean (like certain murders were turned into "nope it was just a sleeping potion teehee"), a lot of polical stuff was dropped, etc. He actually talked about things like the syndicate storyline that was set up at the end of ARR and being hinted at in the HW trailer, being dropped completely. And depictions of things like the Dragonsong war were lightened up considerably.

[Destati]

He did mention years ago that he would love to make a new mmo that was pure high fantasy and that he didn't really care for the tech

I'm assuming he must have changed his mind because... *looks at all the Allagan crap that has persisted through EW, the tech-themed gear that we've been getting (which don't get me wrong I don't mind it), the stuff with Omega and the Omicrons, the decidedly high-tech zone(s) that we're getting in DT, and Omega and the high-tech not-Allag civilization in FFXVI*