Yoshi-P At PAX (Officially Translated)

[RokkuEkkusu]

Crazy how y’all praised him for so many years, and now he’s the most wanted human on earth. Like, the man still human and is allowed to make mistakes you know? The devs are also listening to the feedbacks.

By the way, feedbacks they always listened to, which guided us to the 2 min meta, easy game and so on. Community tend to really forget they’re the first responsible for turning the game to whatever it is these days in terms of gameplay and such. Because they actually cared about feedbacks.

I remember the 2 min meta resulting from what players preferred back in high-end content during HW. Namely the healers and Ninja. AST - AOE Balance or GTFO. SCH - It's success with AST in the high-end content made WHM the laughing stock. It success also caused SMN to suffer a bit (despite SMN being the king of AOE at the time). Ninja - It's utility and comparable DPS to other melee made MNK rather unfavorable.

PF attitudes back in HW and SB did not help things for those who wanted job uniqueness in the long run.

A lot of these preferences contributed to why all the roles are homogenized as they are today. People tend to take their things for granted to the point where they don't know what they've got till it's gone.

He perfected his role as the devoted selfless producer, don't fall for it.

May I ask what exactly I am falling for from his sol-called role as devoted selfless producer? He just answered the interviewer's questions.

[Vanfrano]

Crazy how y’all praised him for so many years, and now he’s the most wanted human on earth. Like, the man still human and is allowed to make mistakes you know? The devs are also listening to the feedbacks.

By the way, feedbacks they always listened to, which guided us to the 2 min meta, easy game and so on. Community tend to really forget they’re the first responsible for turning the game to whatever it is these days in terms of gameplay and such. Because they actually cared about feedbacks.

I never, ever liked him ever since he took over during 1.0 and others had already foreseen what a joke he was and still is. And I don't like Soken either.
One of the first thing he did back in 1.0 was adding himself as a NPC in the game and starting his ridiculous PR letters from the producer...

[Carin-Eri]

I never, ever liked him ever since he took over during 1.0 and others had already foreseen what a joke he was and still is. And I don't like Soken either.
One of the first thing he did back in 1.0 was adding himself as a NPC in the game and starting his ridiculous PR letters from the producer...

Simple question: Why?

A quick look at your post history here demonstrates that you are perspicuous regarding your dislike of him, but I didn't see anything that really elaborated on why he offends you to such a degree.

[Astronema]

Simple question: Why?

A quick look at your post history here demonstrates that you are perspicuous regarding your dislike of him, but I didn't see anything that really elaborated on why he offends you to such a degree.

when I played anarchy online the one game director would hide inside a bar in one city. Another one would log in sometimes and just wander around and do stuff. People would have close interaction with them the way you would the mayor of a small town. You actually had the opportunity to speak with the person in charge and exchange ideas etc. I don't even think yoshi knows anything about his game outside the jpn region.

[Carin-Eri]

when I played anarchy online the one game director would hide inside a bar in one city. Another one would log in sometimes and just wander around and do stuff. People would have close interaction with them the way you would the mayor of a small town. You actually had the opportunity to speak with the person in charge and exchange ideas etc. I don't even think yoshi knows anything about his game outside the jpn region.

Fair enough.

On the other hand, the game director of a game I played before I discovered FFXIV was outright antagonistic toward the playerbase of that game. He outright avoided any and all interaction, was pathetically easily offended and preferred to let the Community Manager play middle-man rather than directly addressing anything himself. This might not have been quite so bad had the CM hadn't had a fairly confrontational mindset toward the community.
This meant that the CM's livestreams included a Q&A session where the CM - having no answers to any questions put to him - would say "I'll look into this thing".... and then nothing further ever came of it.

In fact I'll never forget one particular long-running example of this. A group of players, including myself, asked for this particular thing over a period of eight years. We got promises like "all in good time" and "be patient". Polls were created - one in 2017 and another in 2020; the item we were asking for won both by a significant margin. They ignored the results. During a CM livestream this was pointed out in the Q&A session - the CM simply told us to "stop being jerks" about it. Again, said item did finally appear after eight years of begging but at that point it felt like it was less to do with players asking for it and more the fact that they'd run out of other options. Heck, even the promotional guff that they put out pre-release contained a thinly veiled insult regarding how this item was everyone's "second favourite".

I didn't persist with the game for long after that anyway - sadly, getting something you want in a game which reduced it's content output to one 45 minute 'episode' every six months (due to turning their focus on gambleboxes) and let powercreep reduce it's more difficult content into a joke that could be cleared in 12 seconds didn't really feel like much of an achievement in the end.

Sorry - YoshiP may have his faults. He may not be the saint that some perceive him to be. But regardless of those faults, he engages the community in a positive way. He gives us feedback. He has been known to take feedback onboard. He's clear on where the game is going.

[Sani2341]

when I played anarchy online the one game director would hide inside a bar in one city. Another one would log in sometimes and just wander around and do stuff. People would have close interaction with them the way you would the mayor of a small town. You actually had the opportunity to speak with the person in charge and exchange ideas etc. I don't even think yoshi knows anything about his game outside the jpn region.

Question, were those directors ever playing on a server not in the same region as they live?

Because from what I picked up, YoshiP does indeed play his own Game, iirc he's even got pug logs up on that one Site. It just is that he plays on servers he's got good ping on and can fluently speak the same language as Most other Players there.

[Astronema]

Question, were those directors ever playing on a server not in the same region as they live?

Because from what I picked up, YoshiP does indeed play his own Game, iirc he's even got pug logs up on that one Site. It just is that he plays on servers he's got good ping on and can fluently speak the same language as Most other Players there.

that game had only 2 global servers back then with the director based out of Montreal Canada, before that they were from Norway.

[FuturePastNow]

I never, ever liked him ever since he took over during 1.0 and others had already foreseen what a joke he was and still is. And I don't like Soken either.
One of the first thing he did back in 1.0 was adding himself as a NPC in the game and starting his ridiculous PR letters from the producer...

Ah, you're one of those players still carrying the torch for 1.0. Have you considered that, after 12+ years, maybe this game just isn't for you?

[JadeCurtiss]

I never, ever liked him ever since he took over during 1.0 and others had already foreseen what a joke he was and still is. And I don't like Soken either.
One of the first thing he did back in 1.0 was adding himself as a NPC in the game and starting his ridiculous PR letters from the producer...

My dude why are you even here? So you can seethe about every little thing?