Regarding that Finaland Interview...

[Hestzhyen]

Yoshi pls. This is pretty blatantly ignoring a super popular request for no good reason. At least give a direct answer if you can't deliver on unlocking glamour.

As to the apartment comments... lol. Can't even get mad because of how ridiculous that statement is. Sure, an apartment room is totally equivalent to a house! No place for outdoor furnishings, a garden, a stable, shared facilities, exploratory missions... 100% identical!

[Alleo]

Bruh, you sound like a typical forumer just now. It's not even sidestepping the issue, this is straight up crossing the street to change sidewalks just to avoid someone except it's done with some sass.


/rant

I find it sad that this is his answer to it...especially since the timer did not exist from the start so there were enough people that bought a house in the belief that they will forever keep it (especially when they said that a timer was an outdated system and would never happen in the game). Also lets not forget that these houses had cost way more in the beginning thus its not that easy just to give them up.

But I really should not be surprised anymore. x)

About the glamour answer: Its so strange when we talk about a game where you can glamour so many different silly outfits onto you yet job specific ones would be a deal breaker? I mean people still have their weapon and a nice little tag next to their name that hints what they are...even if some players might behave a bit strange we are not dumb. We will know who plays what..and saying that some might see it as ridiculous: Since when does a glamour police exist in the game? The only thing ridiculous was the taste of Not-Roe Bro in the Gold Saucer.

[Fredco191]

...Can't you do that with most of ARR's healer/caster robes though? >w>

Oh yeah. I would love to use the High Allagan healer robe though.

[Canadane]

They've taken a hard stance on their decisions for both glamour restrictions and housing.
You can't expect an interview to ask about it and him to respond with "Yeah well tough luck."

This is his way of politely telling you tough luck.

[Kirsten_Rev]

I very much think FFXIV would be better off if Yoshi-P were to step down.

I mean, really, the Glamour response? It's frustrating everyone, on both sides of the issue. I know that tons of forum-goers - and likely a majority of the playerbase - want more Glamour options, fewer restrictions. Myself, I want fewer options, more restrictions, because for me, a lot of the outfits do look ridiculous. This middle ground though? What gives? If you're going to allow chicken suits and bikinis, just throw open the floodgates.

The housing answer is predictable shameful. I can barely even get mad anymore. SE has doubled-down on a broken system for years now, without even admitting that they screwed up. It's so blindingly obvious that their infrastructure wasn't able to properly support housing in the past, isn't able to today, and likely won't be able to in the future. We still have people who can't buy a house at all. We still have ridiculously low caps on the number of objects we can place outside. We still have demolition timers. Can we at least get an apology for all of this, and a public commitment to continue working on it until it's in an acceptable state?

Yoshi-P simply lacks vision. Every time I read his interviews, I feel like I'm listening to a customer service representative reading a script. Where are the big ideas? Where is the drive, the ambition? Where is the recognition of existing problems, and the plans to fix them?

Get rid of him already, SE. He seems to be a fine director when it comes to salvaging broken projects, but he appears to be utterly incapable of growing said projects once they're in a stable state. You don't want a status quo guy leading an MMO, and that's exactly what Yoshi-P appears to be.

[Bright-Flower]

I very much think FFXIV would be better off if Yoshi-P were to step down.

I mean, really, the Glamour response? It's frustrating everyone, on both sides of the issue. I know that tons of forum-goers - and likely a majority of the playerbase - want more Glamour options, fewer restrictions. Myself, I want fewer options, more restrictions, because for me, a lot of the outfits do look ridiculous. This middle ground though? What gives? If you're going to allow chicken suits and bikinis, just throw open the floodgates.

The housing answer is predictable shameful. I can barely even get mad anymore. SE has doubled-down on a broken system for years now, without even admitting that they screwed up. It's so blindingly obvious that their infrastructure wasn't able to properly support housing in the past, isn't able to today, and likely won't be able to in the future. We still have people who can't buy a house at all. We still have ridiculously low caps on the number of objects we can place outside. We still have demolition timers. Can we at least get an apology for all of this, and a public commitment to continue working on it until it's in an acceptable state?

Yoshi-P simply lacks vision. Every time I read his interviews, I feel like I'm listening to a customer service representative reading a script. Where are the big ideas? Where is the drive, the ambition? Where is the recognition of existing problems, and the plans to fix them?

Get rid of him already, SE. He seems to be a fine director when it comes to salvaging broken projects, but he appears to be utterly incapable of growing said projects once they're in a stable state. You don't want a status quo guy leading an MMO, and that's exactly what Yoshi-P appears to be.

Regardless of Yoshi I think SE is more interested in just making FF XIV a cash cow than they are taking risks and investing to improve the game overall. Feels like they're more interested in milking it to fund other projects.

[Melichoir]

For the sake of giving Yoshida the most credit possible, his responses are a very indirect way of explaining certain things.

1)Housing

Houses are perks for people who are actively subscribed to the game. It essentially boils down to the issue at hand. The devs do not want a situation where people will buy a house then quit the game, which would hold onto that land and not have it in use for players who are actively subscribed. If you have an apartment, you are not at risk of losing your place. The issue with limited housing is a separate issue, but if I had to hazard a guess with that, its either they wnat to avoid "empty wards" or do not have server resources for infinite wards. Empty wards would be wards where there is just tons of empty plots of land with no one built on it. Since part of the game is reliant on 'theme' (I believe they have in fact stated this in the past), ti would mean they want housing wards to appear populated.

Also, server resources are limited and must be factored in. As of September, the rough estimate of active players in the US alone is 280k-ish. Every ward can hold a max 60 different land plots. They would need 4666~ wards to allow every active player their own place in a ward. That kind of server load is not reasonable, unless we change the housing system completely to be independent instances for each house. Even then, its still harsh. Even if we assume only 10% of hte population wants a house, thats 28k people in 466 wards. Its still a hefty amount.

It would be nice for the Devs to just speak plainly about the issue, but I hazard they dont do to either legal or financial reasons for the business. Meaning, theyre not going to say "Yeah, we dont have the server space cause this is our server size" cause that would be a company trade secret, or would be bad for the business broadly.

2) Open class Glamours
While I do personally believe that any class should be able to glamour, the game still is very broadly a themed game. They do not allow you to glamour any thing because there is still, at the end of the day, a design aesthetic they want the game to adhere to. They want this to give the world a certain 'feeling' and do not want to over pollute it with an "Anything goes" glamour system. What glamour they have now is probably the edge of what they want to get to. When Yoshida talks about taste, he is refering to peoples level of immersion. The biggest being that because the glamour system is semi limited, people arent jarred to much by odd glamour choices. But if you were to completely open it up, then you may get bigger issues with immersion. PERSONALLY, I think thats a misplaced position, and most of hte player base would be indifferent, if not positive to any glamour being on any class.

And this is just my own idea but the glamour system (as well as hairstyles) should be available to any character, regardless of class. So you should be able to get the variations of the hempen camise on every race. Every armor should be glamourable to any class. The caveat SHOULD be that you can only glamour armors, and that you are only able to glamour an armor of another class so long as you have reached that lvl. So you cant glamour lvl 50 PLD armor to a WHM unless you have a lvl 50 PLD already. Things that vary by race (like the camise, or hairstyles) should be available from Gold Saucer for MGP. The race you start with gets them automatically for free, but everyone else has to do Gold Saucer to unlock/buy them. The exception MAYBE would be storyline class specific armors (like the lvl 50 PLD armor from teh story quest, maybe).

[Dragoon4life]

It’s taken me forever to metal armor my bard out of cloth like gear.

[JunseiKei]

Finaland : I want to keep my house while not actively playing the game during down time between patch cycles!

Yoshida : If you don't want to keep up with the maintenance of a highly demanded feature, then invest in an apartment as they never get relinquished.

Fixed.

I've got nothing for the glamour bit. I almost feel like something was lost in translation. Is it because of the heavy-armor aspect being associated with tanks and why you don't really see just cloth (like BLM/SMN/RDM/SCH/AST/WHM) or leather (like NIN/BRD/MCH) for them? Then that's an argument of keeping a certain ... ah, I can't think of the actual word that I want ... silhouette(?) of the job, not ridiculousness of how it might look to another person. I'd love to have a mix of armor and cloth for red mage, considering they actually go toe-to-toe with foes - it's immersive to me to have more reinforced gear over my fellow casters.

I sincerely hope a lot of the answers to the questions in this interview are mistranslated. (~snip~) Either that or he's frustrated because people keep asking him about the same things and he has nothing new to tell them.

I hope this is the reason. You can see over the years, if you've paid attention, that he's slowly getting tired of answering the same things year after year, but trying to maintain a certain demeanor. I wonder how much Yoshida actually dreads the Q&As from players and game journalists that echo these same player questions? Seriously, how many years did we get to about asking for the male bunny set (and do you know how few people I actually see in either male or female versions after the initial hype over them was over)?

[Mesarthim]

1)Housing

Houses are perks for people who are actively subscribed to the game. It essentially boils down to the issue at hand. The devs do not want a situation where people will buy a house then quit the game, which would hold onto that land and not have it in use for players who are actively subscribed. If you have an apartment, you are not at risk of losing your place. The issue with limited housing is a separate issue, but if I had to hazard a guess with that, its either they wnat to avoid "empty wards" or do not have server resources for infinite wards. Empty wards would be wards where there is just tons of empty plots of land with no one built on it. Since part of the game is reliant on 'theme' (I believe they have in fact stated this in the past), ti would mean they want housing wards to appear populated.

Yeah about that. Ever since they reopened personal housing back in what, 4.2? Or whenever the personal ban for new buyers was lifted I found my newest neighbor across from my medium was actually a housing squatter. Aside from a few weeks the house has had a completely empty yard. Even my FC's house is next to a house that doesn't see any use.

There's certainly no shortage of people holding onto houses they've no intention on using other than keeping it purely to relocate to a larger house, or sell if they find some means to do so. Every plot may be owned on Leviathan but the housing wards feel very much dead, at least in my neck of the woods save for maybe one neighbor upstairs.