Thread: 4.2 Updates from Q&A with Yoshida

This train detailed at over 60 mph.

I'm digging a lot of the translation. Not so much the insinuation that they are holding off on long hairstyles because of clipping when every in-game video I've ever seen them post has some of the most blatant clipping imaginable, but I had a sneaking suspicion they weren't ever gonna give us actual long hair for awhile. This just adds to it.

In regards to raid difficulty, you can never please everyone. The smart choice is to maintain variety for everyone (including super hards like ultimate and such) but not gate IMPORTANT story behind it. Making a side story for it should be fine, just nothing MSQ. This way it reaches the most people with the most balance over all. And, I think they've generally been trying to do that with varying success. I cannot really comment further, I am definitely one of those that does raid content at least one xpac late, and it suits me just fine, no complaints here. ^_^

I think I had quit raiding during Gordias because it was a flaming mess that very few people could even do so no to that level of difficulty again lol, Midas was great until the fourth turn some of the statics I was in or subbing for would take days and even the whole week to get it cleared for the week...i think at that point it starts to get a bit ridiculous

Creator in my opinion was the best base line they had it was difficult but not over the top foolishness that only some people can do...so I'm all for raising the difficulty for a challenge but alot of raiders forget not all raiders are on the same skill level and you will essentially be killing your community and only leaving the extremely great players who are like perfect robots which are far from many

Hard is a concept that is viewed differently among communities learning a fight where the boss literally does the same thing 90% of the time I will never consider hard which is why I stopped raiding since coils. I honestly haven't been interested in raiding till they released ultimate which by the way was a smart move got twitch views and more. Wish they went to that alot sooner. All of these fights are hey mechs are happening I need to do this to avoid dying or im being a hindrance to the team. Rag on ffxi all you want the fact is you couldn't netflix on the side during "important" fights.

Another few questions when he was on other servers:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/7nmkij/questions_to_yoship_when_he_visited_masamune/


Some things from that:

-Please dont put it in there to show the names of those that kicked a person..that will just create lots of anger...I am not even sure why they are considering that..
- Diadem seems to be such a failure that they are even discussing if they dont just shut it down completely and put the minions and mounts somewhere else..well I truly hope that they learned from that disaster.
- Also they plan to add more retainers...if those are still just paid retainers I will be truly disappointed and it would just show that they arguments about server stability would be bad..since it would be fine if people buy them but not if they gave one to us for free.
- Someone asked if they can raise the HP of the older S hunts and he said that it would make it difficult for newer players to join in...this just shows to me that he has no idea how hunting is going right now..I mean they die so fast that new players already dont stand a chance at all..
- They also said that we wont be able to store all mog station glamour items in the chest..wasnt there an interview in the past that said that we will be able to do that with 4.2? I find it still a bit hard that they cant at least flag those outfits, since they cost real money. Instead he just says that we should store them in our retainers or chocobo saddle..thats just sad..(hey we take your money but we wont give you the chance to store them all safely away..)
- They dont want to tell us some informations about Eureka because people would misunderstand it...really that does not sound promising to me..
- They dont want to make healers weaker in the new PVP mode because people would not go into this as a healer anymore...

The most funny thing with these questions was the fact that we dont get quite some emotes because the Japanese player base likes to do something sexual with it..even going so far and putting SEs trademark on such screenshots to make it look like its possible ingame..and that we would get some options to hide informations about us if we change servers because again the Japanese player base likes to chase players they dislike..some comments mentioned that they track their data even if they change server and post it on the internet so that people can follow and stalk the person and even stalk them on discord and stuff like that...I mean its funny because people often like to paint the NA and EU player bases as bad and the Japanese players as saints and yet they seems to be quite worse in a lot of parts..so thanks to them we wont get emotes like sleep. x)

Originally Posted by Alleo

Another few questions when he was on other servers:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...ited_masamune/


Some things from that:
- Also they plan to add more retainers...if those are still just paid retainers I will be truly disappointed and it would just show that they arguments about server stability would be bad..since it would be fine if people buy them but not if they gave one to us for free.

Well consider this, how many people would get that 3rd free retainer? i would bet its all of the players making for like 100k extra retainers. how many paid retainers are there? considering the sentiment i see a lot i would say less then that, way less. This is just pure speculation though, you can also say that paid retainers help to pay for more/better servers. Shure i would like a free one extra i just dont say its pure greed without knowing the precise situation.

Originally Posted by Alleo

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EU doesn't need more servers at this point, there are several servers that are complete ghost towns, so unless this changes no extra EU servers.
What I do want is better hardware/quality servers.