Famitsu Interview - YoshiP 3 Year Anniversary Interview

[Thayos]

Not on the topic of button mashing, but I also found it interesting where Yoshi-P talked about horizontal growth. He didn't appear to be talking about endgame, though... seemed to be talking about the early and midgame, as to keep the game inviting for new players.

Did anyone else interpret that the same way?

[Sandpark]

Not on the topic of button mashing, but I also found it interesting where Yoshi-P talked about horizontal growth. He didn't appear to be talking about endgame, though... seemed to be talking about the early and midgame, as to keep the game inviting for new players.

Did anyone else interpret that the same way?

Hi btw Thayos!

Yeah I did. I would welcome it. As fun as it is reaching the pinnacle, I enjoy alternate ways to progress when starting over. That is what I think he was talking about but was sort of vague.

Look at him. He looks happy and vigorous. I've seen him at times look mentally drained.

[zosia]

This interview made my stomach churn.

I really don't get this idea of closing this "gap" between player skill levels. Is SE's goal just to homogenize performance? Everyone already gets raid equivalent ilvl gear to keep the gap as small as possible, now we are going to lose rotational depth to further shrink an already small gap?

I just don't get it, why keep shrinking the gap? What's the point? If SE always caters to the lowest common denominator, and they want to shorten the gap between the skill ceiling and floor, does that mean this game's skill ceiling is moving closer to the floor (the lowest common denominator)?

This interview made me legit sad...

[aesteval]

They need to keep both but they would be one button. The icon should change based on the positional.

The sad part of this is that I disagree. ;_; When I was still messing around with DRG I used them being two different buttons to map them to hotbar locations that provide immediate clues to the positional and so didn't have to memorize the position of each.

That said, I dropped DRG as I played PLD more and picked up SMN. I probably won't be going back to DRG myself. But when designing the icon(s) it could be good to keep such a visual queue in mind.

[Riardon]

I hope I understood this wrong but to me seems like "hey let's nerf the hell out of this game make it flat for dummies so we can grab more subs". I hope we understood the interview wrong. His is planning to make everything much more flat and easier? What's next dungeons with no mechanics and 1 hit mobs? Unless he plans to make the combat more interesting by adding more engaging mechanics and more dodges I see this as a huge nerf.
Closing the gap between casual players and hardcores? This will end up with hardcores leaving and new comers getting bored fast. I really don't understand this. Wasn't the game casual enough already? Wasn't it easy enough to the point we got bored few weeks after every patch now he wants to make this a casual flat thing to match Facebook's F2P games lvl or what? I didn't like what he said there.
Still no word about end game. Hope he will not repeat the many month content draught after 3.0 with 4.0. Flatter gameplay with flatter dungeons is not fun Yoshi.
I pray I got this all wrong really.

[Moomba33]

My overall interpretation was he wants to make jobs easier to play so encounters will be more about learning the specific fight rather than learning to manage your buff timers around the fight.

Any change is going to have both its fans and detractors. Just looking at BLM in this very thread we have some who hate it at 60 and others who found it dull at 50 and appreciated the increase in complexity. I'm guessing that going by their data SE thinks more people fall into group 1.

I think they were going to have to overhaul rotations for 4.0 in any case. Most of my jobs now take 2 full hotbars on controller (Arcanist takes 3 if the pet is on manual control) and I wasn't looking forward to having to fit more abilities in come 4.0.

[Sandpark]

My overall interpretation was he wants to make jobs easier to play so encounters will be more about learning the specific fight rather than learning to manage your buff timers around the fight.

Any change is going to have both its fans and detractors. Just looking at BLM in this very thread we have some who hate it at 60 and others who found it dull at 50 and appreciated the increase in complexity. I'm guessing that going by their data SE thinks more people fall into group 1.

I think they were going to have to overhaul rotations for 4.0 in any case. Most of my jobs now take 2 full hotbars on controller (Arcanist takes 3 if the pet is on manual control) and I wasn't looking forward to having to fit more abilities in come 4.0.

The under emphasis on rotation perfection could open up the dynamics for more party synergy as well versus showboat God Of War.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

My overall interpretation was he wants to make jobs easier to play so encounters will be more about learning the specific fight rather than learning to manage your buff timers around the fight.

Any change is going to have both its fans and detractors. Just looking at BLM in this very thread we have some who hate it at 60 and others who found it dull at 50 and appreciated the increase in complexity. I'm guessing that going by their data SE thinks more people fall into group 1.

I think they were going to have to overhaul rotations for 4.0 in any case. Most of my jobs now take 2 full hotbars on controller (Arcanist takes 3 if the pet is on manual control) and I wasn't looking forward to having to fit more abilities in come 4.0.

That's my impression as well. We always have people here complaining about people being lazy or doing a poor job with their rotations, so maybe Yoshida decided to make jobs simpler in response.

[Zojha]

That's my impression as well. We always have people here complaining about people being lazy or doing a poor job with their rotations, so maybe Yoshida decided to make jobs simpler in response.

And I have the eerie gut feeling that this will go the way of increased base values while keeping the max values intact. So a True strike from the rear would still be 180 potency while one from everywhere else would be 165 or something. Damage while using Enochian remains the same, damage outside of Enochian gets buffed etc.

I'm curious how it'll end up working out. Best case we get a Fuma/Raiton situation with rotations where sometimes one is better to use than the other, worst case it'll end up being a little less engaging. Either way, as Ninja, I feel rather safe that my gameplay won't change too much.

[Renius]

I understood him saying that he would like more "casual" or time limited players to be able to enjoy hardcore content for the game play and not get so frustrated trying to stay alive that they never go back to end game due to its massive damage and constant buff management required at the moment. I personnally would do more end game participation if I did not have to pray and hope that I get a decent enouff party a couple of times so that I can have time to understand the mechanics in my limited play time.