Korean FanFest Yoshida Interview

[AnimaAnimus]

I recall lots of ppl mad at the "bow mage" and my main job at the time

Well that was due to how silly of a design that was, not because it was too difficult to play. Who plays a ranger, sorry "bard", and wants casting bars added to basic pew pew attacks? Esp considering archer/bard did not have them in 1.0 or 2.0 which made it a shock and completely changed the way the job was played, and not in a good way.

They have a tendancy to make extremely bad design choices, that anyone who has played rpgs at all would look at and say, 'that is not good, don't do that' and then blame the players for negative feedback and act confused by what we want.

[Doragan]

Well that was due to how silly of a design that was, not because it was too difficult to play. Who plays a ranger, sorry "bard", and wants casting bars added to basic pew pew attacks?

Me, actually. I really enjoyed that slidecasting part of the job back in the day, but having almost-total mobility in ARR to being anchored in the span of two years wasn't a good idea. I significantly prefered it on MCH when you just had to charge the 1st shot, and the current PvP kits where you can move while shooting. Even if you get to move slower, it is great imo. I want more of that.

[Archeron]

It takes money to make money.

It's quite obvious this game needs more staff, and more talent. A custodian team solving issues they've left in the game for years would be a major first step in solving the communities grievances. But the second step I think they need to take is more clearly communicating with the community, and not just giving us snipets of information in highly curated interviews. There is a clear disconnect between the developers, and directors (Yoshi P) and the general sentiment of the communities who play this game. The raiders aren't being listened to, Healers aren't being listened to, PvP players aren't being listened to, it seems like they only care to pander to the casual audience of this game who started the game within the last 3 years and still are catching up with much content left to do. Everyone else is no longer that target audience, and thus they do not care what veteran players think so long as they have new players to replace them. Fill the game with an extremely casual audience, and keep replacing those who reach the end of the content cycle.