The Community Teams interview Yoshida in Japan!

[Eekiki]

Wow, a lot of creepers in the FF14 community. Not that surprising I guess.

And what is creepy about telling a pretty girl that she's pretty? I'm sure it takes some effort on her part to maintain that appearance, and I for one appreciate it. The world is a better place because she is in it.

[giftforce]

They are all beautiful.

[Abriael]

I'm not the only one who uses a fake character on the forums, to prevent my level being brought up every time I post. Tarryn Kinasha, Mysidia.

If your opinions had any shred of validity you wouldn't worry about showing your character levels.

Or maybe you'd actually play the game in order to form a valid opinion on it.

[Seirra_Lanzce]

I'm not the only one who uses a fake character on the forums, to prevent my level being brought up every time I post. Tarryn Kinasha, Mysidia.

Lol.. i'm just sayin' :3 you put a smile on my face on the name you chosen

[ShinChuck]

If your opinions had any shred of validity you wouldn't worry about showing your character levels.

Or maybe you'd actually play the game in order to form a valid opinion on it.

I think it's important to consider all viewpoints, from people who've got way more 50s than you to people who are just starting off - at what "level" do we decide an opinion is valid? I don't think people need to throw out all their experience for an opinion to have validity, nor does simply having the most experience automatically make your opinion superior.

And trinta just told everyone how to find their character, so apparently it's not really a huge worry to them anyway?

[Airget]

Wouldn't it be a novel idea if we could be rewarded by more then just gear. I mean really if it takes 6 months to produce something for a content rewards, to me it just seems like content wouldn't be coming out fast enough to ever make this game subscription base.

Yoshida if you're reading this instead of focusing on always rewarding people with gear there are other ways to reward people. You can unlock new areas to explore, reward them with abilities such as unique for certain classes, traits and other enhancements. Make use of the fact that we work on an ability point system instead of focusing purely on gear. While sure it's nice to have pretty looking gear but at the pace it's coming out now you'll never truly have unique looking characters because people will always be wearing the top tier gear.

Just take a step back and contemplate a reward system that will reward people with a wide variety of things then just gear. To me I think most MMO's fall flat cause the majority of rewards are always gear. Heck I"m not saying be like XI but not all of XI's rewards have always been gear.

In XI there were quest to obtain new weaponskills, quest to unlock jobs, missions to unlock new areas and content. Even abyssea we were rewarded with abyssite(enhancements taking effect in abyssea zones) and atmas(attirbute augments use in unison with Lunar abyssites) from defeating mobs or completing certain quest. XIV's main content of reward is gear. Honestly all you need are two members brainstorming how they can evolve classes with skill and tweaks that can be added to their class to allow customization through play style rather then how they look.

The best example I can give is creating a wide series of trait that enhance specific abilities such as a series of traits for Iron Tempest:
-You can make one that enhances it's wind damage
-Another can increase it's radius
-Decrease recast
-Increase recast with improved damage
-cut recast in half but reduce damage
-Turn it into a single target with improve damage
-A trait that allows you to attach Tornado to the ability but requires a casting period to be harnessed properly

But ya like with dungeon rewards you can create it where the player obtains a shard of the beast KI once defeated and you can exchange it to an NPC along with Guild Marks to obtain new traits and abilities for your class.

You can give the traits a main effect and a sub class effect where the effect are slightly lowered when attached to another class as the main.

Just think about it if you map out this idea you'll save yourselves a lot of headache with always thinking that you HAVE to produce gear to compliment the release of a new dungeon or game concept.

[KarisMak]

Chocobos in 1.19! Definitely my favorite part of this thread! Aside from all the obligatory fawning over Rukkirii, of course
HmmmHmmmHmmmHmmHmmHmmHmmHmmmHmmmHmmm

[Victor]

6 months does sound absurdly high to make a single set of gear, I don't know what to think of that...

[Laiferr]

And what is creepy about telling a pretty girl that she's pretty? I'm sure it takes some effort on her part to maintain that appearance, and I for one appreciate it. The world is a better place because she is in it.

Some people were being nice about it, but others were bordering on creepy. There are a lot of girls who play games but you wouldn't know it because some of us like to avoid the subject because once your appearance is brought up, people just cannot stop mentioning how you are a HUMAN FEMALE. It's nice to be judged on your personality and merit rather than just have people hitting on you and talking about your appearance. Respect to Ruki for having to deal with this! Enjoyed reading the interview, and Yoshi-P... please, get some sleep!

[Perrin_Aybarra]

Wouldn't it be a novel idea if we could be rewarded by more then just gear. I mean really if it takes 6 months to produce something for a content rewards, to me it just seems like content wouldn't be coming out fast enough to ever make this game subscription base.

Yoshida if you're reading this instead of focusing on always rewarding people with gear there are other ways to reward people. You can unlock new areas to explore, reward them with abilities such as unique for certain classes, traits and other enhancements. Make use of the fact that we work on an ability point system instead of focusing purely on gear. While sure it's nice to have pretty looking gear but at the pace it's coming out now you'll never truly have unique looking characters because people will always be wearing the top tier gear.

Just take a step back and contemplate a reward system that will reward people with a wide variety of things then just gear. To me I think most MMO's fall flat cause the majority of rewards are always gear. Heck I"m not saying be like XI but not all of XI's rewards have always been gear.

In XI there were quest to obtain new weaponskills, quest to unlock jobs, missions to unlock new areas and content. Even abyssea we were rewarded with abyssite(enhancements taking effect in abyssea zones) and atmas(attirbute augments use in unison with Lunar abyssites) from defeating mobs or completing certain quest. XIV's main content of reward is gear. Honestly all you need are two members brainstorming how they can evolve classes with skill and tweaks that can be added to their class to allow customization through play style rather then how they look.

The best example I can give is creating a wide series of trait that enhance specific abilities such as a series of traits for Iron Tempest:
-You can make one that enhances it's wind damage
-Another can increase it's radius
-Decrease recast
-Increase recast with improved damage
-cut recast in half but reduce damage
-Turn it into a single target with improve damage
-A trait that allows you to attach Tornado to the ability but requires a casting period to be harnessed properly

But ya like with dungeon rewards you can create it where the player obtains a shard of the beast KI once defeated and you can exchange it to an NPC along with Guild Marks to obtain new traits and abilities for your class.

You can give the traits a main effect and a sub class effect where the effect are slightly lowered when attached to another class as the main.

Just think about it if you map out this idea you'll save yourselves a lot of headache with always thinking that you HAVE to produce gear to compliment the release of a new dungeon or game concept.

I like these ideas but the sad thing with uncapped (being able to defeat a level 30 dungeon on a level 50 class/job)dungeons is that you pretty much can only reward with gears. Unless you cannot obtain shards when you are 10 levels above the dungeon level and then you got to get your shards from another dungeon in your level range.

If you don't then people can just farm their shards in lower level dungeons and then buy their abilites/spells enhancing effects without so much a sweat.