Yoshi P's Ominous Statement About the Future of XIV

[Rithy255]

I'm not going to judge and jump on a bandwagon too early.

Game needs changes thats for sure, I don't like the current direction of the game and I'm 100% ready to be disappointed by 8.0 but at the same time what would be more scarier then a new direction is stagnation this game is currently suffering because of bad choices and there does need to be some drastic shake ups.

Will it be good? who knows, Is it just PR speak? Likely, I just hope the game doesn't go down its current path no matter how scary innovation may be, we can't pretend what's going on right now is currently working.

[Daralii]

It's not even the same company developing the mobile game, its made by Lightspeed who fall under Tencent, SE just supervises.

Yoshida's been pretty involved with it on a personal level, and he's been talking about making the main game more like a mobile game as of late. At least as far as public corpo statements go, his main takeaway from the population decline is that the main game demands too much time from people when it comes to character progression, and that adding things like automated pathing to quest objectives will fix it.

[Rithy255]

Yoshida's been pretty involved with it on a personal level, and he's been talking about making the main game more like a mobile game as of late. At least as far as public corpo statements go, his main takeaway from the population decline is that the main game demands too much time from people when it comes to character progression, and that adding things like automated pathing to quest objectives will fix it.

Its funny because the play rate is down because theirs nothing to actually do, The only thing that I'd make take less time is the MSQ, Going through ARR to DT takes too long for any new player.

I think instead of automation they need a new starting point, I don't see how this is hard to understand.

[ViinaS]

"...we are fully committed to delivering new experiences and fresh surprises in the years ahead"

Absolutely hilarious.
New experiences? Fresh surprises?

We can literally map out an entire expansion, dungeons and bosses at this point cause it's so formulaic and they keep doing the same thing over and over.
And they expect us really to believe that?

[Cygnia]

You're tearing me apart, Yoshida.
Humour (however lame) helps allay the dread that arises whenever game companies start discussing styling their console/pc games after mobile ones. Follow the advice of the Ghostbusters and don't cross those streams, man.

[Astronis]

If Yoshi P tries to pivot this game to more mobile gamers, I fear he's going to lose a lot of us who have been here for years. If I want a moblie game of FF14 ((Which I don't)) I would play the mobile 14 ((Which I won't))

I would be out so fast heads would spin. So I shall fervently hope it isn't that.

[Lufir]

"As I said, the world is changing, and FFXIV must be ready to change alongside it—reflecting the demands of an evolving market, as well as the ways you live and play."

To me, this screams implementing some kind of use of AI in FFXIV. I doubt it has anything to do with mobile.

[CaptainLagbeard]

"As I said, the world is changing, and FFXIV must be ready to change alongside it—reflecting the demands of an evolving market, as well as the ways you live and play."

To me, this screams implementing some kind of use of AI in FFXIV. I doubt it has anything to do with mobile.

If it is AI, and before anyone gets angry at the idea of AI... I just want to ask would they rather have AI or more wuk lamat. Because AI can write better than whoever wrote her.

[Veritas-Ancora]

To me, this screams implementing some kind of use of AI in FFXIV. I doubt it has anything to do with mobile.

They can barely afford to fix the spaghetti code.

You think they'll pay for AI on top of everything else? Our subscription rates would skyrocket. Square would never invest in AI.

[Valence]

"...we are fully committed to delivering new experiences and fresh surprises in the years ahead"

Absolutely hilarious.
New experiences? Fresh surprises?

We can literally map out an entire expansion, dungeons and bosses at this point cause it's so formulaic and they keep doing the same thing over and over.
And they expect us really to believe that?

If we go by their "new creative and exciting encounter design" they promised for 7.2, then I'm not exactly hopeful for what's to come for sure.