Melbourne International games week Interview about content

[Raven2014]

Yoship going from "play other games" after complaints from players of feeling like there is a lack of content recently to essentially asking/begging people to "not retire and stay with the game" is like a complete flip he is doing. Him asking people to now not quit and give them a chance to prove upcoming content will be good makes me feel there isn't any faith in post expansion content that will be able to keep players. It somewhat worries me he is asking people to not leave and makes me think there is a bigger drop off of subs then the previous 2 expansions had on release but I could be worrying too much or reading too much into his statements.

Bleh, if you look at the entire industry this is actually a common trend recently.

Ubisoft: after SW Outlaw flop and AC Shadow delay - two games they were counting on being the next cash cow - they went from "gamers should be comfortable not owning their games, you must use our exclusive launcher, please pay double the price if you want extra side quest and early access" to "we will make sure your old game always work! We're coming back to Steam day 1! Everyone will get the full experience day one and pre-order will give you the first expansion for free".

Electronic art: they just came out today announcing DA not only gonna be on STeam, but also will have no DRM in the most "pro-consumer" language possible. EA? Pro-consumer? Right ... You know the only reason they're doing this is because if DA Veilguard flops, that's the end of Bioware.

I serious doubt Yoshi would be playing the same tune if Rebirth and FF16 beat sale expectation, he would probably even feel vindicated for ignoring and diverting attention/resource from FF14. But now he saw those game didn't make target, this change of tune is probably the same panic reaction like the examples above that they realize the cash cown they always take for granted may not survive if they don't feed them.

I'm not renewing my sub after the current one run out. I may come back later if most of his "current" promise are actual realized, and that is assuming in the mean time whatever remain of my interest in FF14 is not just completely killed off by playing others more modern, better live-service games because right now, that has a pretty high chance of happening. For what it's worth, I hope this is not too late, and I hope they do have the manpower and talent to turn this around. But that'll need an all hand on deck situation because I have zero confidence in whatever team that launched DT.