Is YoshiP still in charge or is corporate taking over?

[sharknado]

YoshiP said it many many times. Their feature planning is all based on profitability. They won't redo Crystal Tower just because they can, they will do it when it's super necessary (they have to add trust because DF died or something like that) or when it will lead to sales (new expansion, new zone graphics, new music, savage/ultimate for the addicts). They added some new pretty animations for jobs and that's what is expected in the sale package of a new expansion. Wherever someone "likes" new Astro or other new buttons is irrelevant if the expansion has already been bought. Plot watchers are there for a month everyone else is addicted and will sub back and forth.

I wouldn't be surprised if the next expansion will be exactly the same as the last 3 - we go to 110, there are job group quests, there are DoH/DoL job group quests, more emphasis on more proactive MSQ, more emphasis on extra changes to job skill animations, healer strike addressed by changing glare animation with pianos dropping on top of mobs and screen shakes. The end...

[1313]

yoshi p is corporate now smh

[IvoryHawk]

YoshiP was de facto moved to the boss of whole CS3 (formerly CBU3). While it's certainly a good move for SE as a whole, the immediate downside is that he has no longer as much time to spend on FFXIV and instead must oversee a lot of corporate matters that have nothing to do with the game.

Therefore, he probably had to delegate a lot of stuff he did in FFXIV and in particular, he no longer has the time to play the game thoroughly (like he confessed doing with SHB). From that point on, mess is inevitable because it's now younger people doing it and... well, you know the rest.

I believe that, aint no way he'd leave BLM in the state that it is if he was actually around.

[Aldath]

Not to suggest SE isn’t a standard ‘greedy’ company like the others, but the CEO who was obsessed with NFTs doesn’t work at SE anymore; he was replaced. Afterwards the swore off NFT, probably because even they aren’t stupid enough to think that was an appropriate business model

Correction. The new CEO also said NFTs and AI were the future of SE's business plan and made quite the statements. It was ONLY after both XVI and Rebirth made them lose money that he had to say they won't be prioritizing it to the investors.

[Payadopa]

Me and my mates are playing GW2 now. The game where you can participate in the other's MSQ, starting zones can potentially kill you, and you get to customise your class in terms of abilities.

XIV at this point is just a visual novel and the rest got deleted for ease of access or a better parse.

[Aldath]

Me and my mates are playing GW2 now. The game where you can participate in the other's MSQ, starting zones can potentially kill you, and you get to customise your class in terms of abilities.

XIV at this point is just a visual novel and the rest got deleted for ease of access or a better parse.

Look, I have my gripes with GW2, especially since group open world content is just "Follow the leader, press auto attacks, win", and the average player makes the Limsa AFKers look like Savage Raiders... But I don't know how a smaller and more financially limited studio like Anet, and especially under the wing of such a crap company like Nexon has managed to do more with the game than a big company like SE in a decade. This is further exacerbated when you take into consideration that Anet is infamous for being disorganized and having an almost chaotic approach to game design, where they have these big ideas integrated into the game without regards to future proofing and then get gutted or abandoned (Living Story, Dungeons, Raids, Hunts, Guilds, Competitive PvP, WvW... The list goes on), yet the core gameplay is solid enough that despite this, people still but the expansions.

FFXIV also has solid gameplay in terms of encounter, but it's becoming more and more evident that it's lacking in terms of everything else. Heck, even WoW has less boring questing and exploration content. You can see how poorly designed the rest of the game is when the story alone is what have it mixed reviews that were dangerously threading into negative territory. 21 hours of your gameplay time is spent in cutscenes and walking on empty maps that function as padding. The combat content is amazing but ironically it's the smallest part of the expansion and most of it will be power crept to hell and back and forgotten in a couple patches.

But hey, fixing Au'Ra Female faces is their priority because what makes cash for them is the IMVU part of the game.