Why was Yoshi P at Blizzcon?

[Pinkie_Pie]

Does he play WoW as well and love blizzard products?

From a reddit post.

https://imgur.com/gallery/ahX7Q

[Belhi]

Probably partly business, partly pleasure. Not neccesarily WoW. Blizzcon covers a lot of Blizzard's games. He has said before he was a fan of Diablo. Its pretty common for game developers to check out and play other developer's games. After all game developers generally are game developers because they love games and looking at other peoples work can always be good a giving inspiration and broadening perspectives.

[alimdia]

Yoshida is still a gamer, believe it or not SE employees don't only play and follow SE games, he played many games before he became the producer and director of FFXIV and that didn't change just because he got a new job.

I also know of several people in charge of WoW development and community who play FFXIV.

[Pinkie_Pie]

Probably partly business, partly pleasure. Not neccesarily WoW. Blizzcon covers a lot of Blizzard's games. He has said before he was a fan of Diablo. Its pretty common for game developers to check out and play other developer's games. After all game developers generally are game developers because they love games and looking at other peoples work can always be good a giving inspiration and broadening perspectives.

Would love to see a live stream of him playing D3 lol :P

[Zhao]

Likely to meet with friends. *cough*cough* To secretly plan the future of MMOs and dominate the virtual world *cough*cough*

Joking aside, I believe Yoshi did say that FFXIV is designed to be following the WoW MMO generation, so theres a good amount of respect there.
Joking again, Yoshi also said that the next generation of MMOs are going to be something else entirely and he would love to experiment with new models. (But money and profits are always a concern) SE won't be letting go of Yoshi though!

[Zofis]

Yoshida is just a huge fan of Blizzard in general. It's very well-documented at this point.

[Aillith]

Having the devs of different games share their ideas and creativity is great for us gamers. Our games get improved, and devs have greater creativity when seeing what others are doing.

Its nice to see the devs arnt as divided as some fans can be.

[MaikoRaines]

Yoshi P + FFXIV Cosplayers at a Blizzcon event. Epic!

https://www.instagram.com/p/BMek9K4DPVZ/

[FoxyAreku]

Because he plays Hanzo in overwatch.

[Laerune]

Isnt Square Enix the publisher for Blizzard in Japan? I know that they are going to be the publisher for Overwatch in Japan.