Yoshi-P E3 2014 Interview about Ninja/Rogue

[Orta]

Keynotes of the interview:

- Rogue is basically like the Thief class in the series
- Rogue's combat pace won't be faster than other classes
- Yoshida tended to describe Ninja as a unique class instead of a difficult class
- The introduction of Rogue and Ninja is to coordinate with the implement of new PVP content in 2.3 and 2.4
- They did consider to bring in the Musketeer class
- Yoshida wanted players to image how the Ramuh and Shiva battles would look like
- Yoshida felt players' temporal departure was a natural thing


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[Tupsi]

Interesting little bit where the interviewer said "2.3 coming later this year."

[Orta]

Interesting little bit where the interviewer said "2.3 coming later this year."

It's bit ambiguous, I believe that 2.3 is coming soon after E3.

[Xatsh]

Yoshida said having limited content to where players are forced to play another game will encourage them to continue to play XIV longer.....

That statement almost seems like a complete disconnect from reality, as it is the main reason ppl leave mmos for other ones.

[Tempting]

Yoshida said having limited content to where players are forced to play another game will encourage them to continue to play XIV longer.....

That statement almost seems like a complete disconnect from reality, as it is the main reason ppl leave mmos for other ones.

Its so hard to balance it.
#1 Its too easy, and people rush and have nothing to do = Quit.
#2 Its too hard, people do it for a while but say screw it = Do something else or potentially Quit

I personally would say #1 is the worse of the two just because if nothing at all to do there is no point paying for a subscription.

Ontopic: It sounds like Musketeer might not even be coming for 2.4.

[LlenCoram]

Ontopic: It sounds like Musketeer might not even be coming for 2.4.

I'm honestly starting to wonder if we'll ever get it at all. The recent aethernet change from Coral Tower to Marauder's Guild was sort of a giant slap in the face for those of us waiting for MSK.

[Kitru]

I'm honestly starting to wonder if we'll ever get it at all. The recent aethernet change from Coral Tower to Marauder's Guild was sort of a giant slap in the face for those of us waiting for MSK.

I'm pretty sure that change was simply put there to make it easier for people not intimately familiar with Limsa to navigate the city via the aethernet, just like they added which zones the various gates lead to. Furthermore, there isn't a MSK guild there at the moment, so the only thing there is the MRD's guild so it makes sense to name it the MRD's guild. If/when they add MSK, if the guild is also inside Coral Tower, I could easily see them either calling the aethernet node "Coral Tower (Marauder's Guild and Musketeer's Guild)" or "Marauder's Guild and Musketeer's Guild". This is, of course, operating under the assumption that the MSK guild will actually be in Coral Tower instead of a new building entirely (maybe connected to Coral Tower but not in it).

[jwilliams133]

I'm honestly starting to wonder if we'll ever get it at all. The recent aethernet change from Coral Tower to Marauder's Guild was sort of a giant slap in the face for those of us waiting for MSK.

I think it's interesting players are getting upset about certain "promised" content not having a set release date within an MMO. Games within this genre last years. This version of this game isn't even a year old, yet. Let's chill out a little...

[Nayto]

I think it's interesting players are getting upset about certain "promised" content not having a set release date within an MMO. Games within this genre last years. This version of this game isn't even a year old, yet. Let's chill out a little...

tbh that 'muskateer' guild has been out for more than a year...
To have that class scrapped after 2-3 years for ARR (Arcanist is totally different from what it was thought to be in 1.0) and then come out with a class that didn't even have a guild in the first place has pissed off more than you can imagine in your 'one year'.

[LlenCoram]

I think it's interesting players are getting upset about certain "promised" content not having a set release date within an MMO. Games within this genre last years. This version of this game isn't even a year old, yet. Let's chill out a little...

As Nayto said, it's been a lot longer than one year. It's been four years. It doesn't matter that "this version" of the game is only a year old. What matters is that the Coral Tower is still in game, still houses the Musketeer guild, and we continue to get hints and teases that we may one day see a gun class.

Then they go and give us a different class entirely that wasn't in the game at all.

It's insulting.