After Dawntrails abject Failure of a Story, there need to be serious Consequences

[Havenchild]

Yoshi needs to go away, he saved ARR but that's all. His vision of making FFXIV as a single solo player with monthly subscription needs to go away immediately.

It's both hilarious and sad that there are several people on the forums who think Yoshi going away would make XIV better somehow. It's proof that these people are both disingenuous and incredibly naive.

[Carin-Eri]

It's both hilarious and sad that there are several people on the forums who think Yoshi going away would make XIV better somehow. It's proof that these people are both disingenuous and incredibly naive.

Forced to agree.

I'll confess, I actually fear YoshiP leaving because if that happens it seems pretty likely the Powers That Be would try pushing the game down the F2P route. YoshiP has made it pretty clear that he doesn't support that business model - to quote what he said in an interview:
"F2P is an unreliable source of income predicated on devoting a lot of development resources to monthly consumable or cosmetic items in order to maintain profitability, leaving little time for higher quality story and battle content, and a playerbase which changes dramatically in size and revenue from month to month"

And I'm speaking from experience here myself. I came to FFXIV late 2021 having burnt out on a once decent game that I'd played for 12 years but went down the F2P route and, over time, transformed from a decent, challenging, game into a boring P2W chore that was entirely dependent on selling gambleboxes, expensive item bundles (£300) and repetitive FOMO nonsense.
All at the cost of new content - because the Devs were/are so busy making junk to sell that there was (is) no time to make new MSQ content.

I'd hate to see that happen to FFXIV.