Just read the Novacrystallis interview

[Roris]

So no Musketeer until December, good, saves me even more spare change in a couple of months.

Skill Speed, more so on Monk, would be semi-OK if they actually made Army's Paeon as useful as Mage's Ballad. Why on Earth we still can't see party members TP is beyond me. This was an issue in XI, and they've still left it broken all the way into ARR... Is it incompetent to have not fixed an issue for over a decade? I feel we need a stronger word...

It's funny because they recently added that in XI, it feels like they're slowly adding a lot of the good 1.X features into the game, and even a couple from ARR like a recipe book which is great, item levels and gear invalidation not withstanding. Inb4 a snarky "well why don't you go play it then huh huh huh" used as an insult by silly people.

[SavageWolf]

The interviewer asked a lot of difficult questions. You can really tell Yoshi-P recognizes all issues surrounding each matter, which is very impressive for a developer these days. It really helps you see what a difficult job they have of keeping the game balanced. He sees the game through both the Casual players and the Hardcore player's eyes.

[NyneAlexander]

lol @ yoshi-p wondering if Blue Gartr peeps have jobs

[Ryans]

If you actually think about the examples Yoshida mentioned then you'd see there could be some value in skill speed. Should you stack skill speed on turn 8? Probably not, as you are always on the target doing damage. What about turn 7? There are times when you are aren't using skills, even if only for a second, and skill speed might make up for that down time. In the long run, though, it doesn't matter as the secondary stats are all minimal dps increases.

[Nalien]

If you actually think about the examples Yoshida mentioned then you'd see there could be some value in skill speed. Should you stack skill speed on turn 8? Probably not, as you are always on the target doing damage. What about turn 7? There are times when you are aren't using skills, even if only for a second, and skill speed might make up for that down time. In the long run, though, it doesn't matter as the secondary stats are all minimal dps increases.

Ugh.. I hope the developers don't start expecting us to have multiple sets of gear for various instances...

[HeroSamson]

Wait that doesn't make sense what he said about characters not showing up to a game because it would mess it up.

So why did they all appear here then? I mean even tifa is in the general thing when you shut off your tells and she says cloud eyes up here or something.

You see that's where your farplane comes in from FFX meaning if the dead want to not stay dead because they have a attachment to the world they will come back.

even the same weapons from your lore is here, magitek FF6 I mean I know, I know I am jumping the gun, maybe in future expansion cause you can't I like surprises myself.

[Gilraen]

Understand that Dissidia is a Final Fantasy fighting game that uses the Void as an excuse to have all those characters available. I mean, if you look at the characters available some of them really shouldn't be there because they weren't real to begin with (looking at you Tidus and Jecht). Writers will say anything to justify being able to kick much arse with Kefka or live out fantasies of razing battlefields as Shantotto (devs love insane). Yoshida clearly isn't going to be tossing in notable Final Fantasy personalities for the hell of it, he wants to give proper justification for their appearance.

"But we've had Lightning, Shantotto and Dragon Quest golems so far, justification my arse!" But there IS justification there. In the last two XIII games you have the character jumping through space and time chasing... what were they chasing again? Meh, it was a McGuffin anyway. In A Shantotto Ascension the mad professor causes untold problems when she goes and researches dimensional magic. And the golems were just... golems made using bricks instead of rocks. The puff-puff girls fit in so well in Ul'dah you could easily forgive that they were Dragon Quest references.

So far everything's been at least permissible within the lores of the characters involved.