To Yoshi P

[JunseiKei]

That I had heard of a story of you standing up for the players of your game against what you were being told by the executives of Square Enix. I do not know if that story is true but I could definitely imagine that it was. I was happy for you when I heard your hard work was being honored by you becoming an exec and that more trust was being placed in you.

I was very excited during the first day of the recent Fan Fest and a little bit worried about what “limited job” could mean. Then that excitement turned to disappointment when I heard what the concept actually is and you reasons for it. It made me feel that you were shying away from the challenge and that I had already seen the best work you’re capable of. Or worse yet, that you viewed this as a situation to take care of three requests from your players and boost subscription retention. That it was a decision made by an exec of the company and not the game director that I was telling my online friends about.

I still have some belief in you and want to have full trust in you once more. I understand that us players ask a lot from you and your team. I saw it as most of us believing you were capable of delivering on what we ask for or that you would get there with time. That is the way I want to feel again and not to feel that this game is heading in the wrong direction.

Okay, bring on the hate. This isn’t intended to be another thread to be debate in but I’m guessing it will happen anyway. I just wanted to vent some feelings I felt didn’t fit in those other threads.

Time and again, Yoshida has said he doesn't think Blue Mage could work in Final Fantasy XIV. Bold for emphasis; XIV has a very stern trifecta of tank, healer and DPS and content balanced around it. For what BLU can do and what it is, regardless of the iteration (even if you tried to transpose XI's BLU here) still has a system tied to it that does not adhere to the mold that is XIV's system. It's fine to be worried about what the limited job system will bring, but can we at least let the thing come out before passing judgement and pushing a desire? We still don't know for sure if BLU's exclusion from current content is permanent, if it'll always never meet level cap or if this isn't meant to be a long term feedback (possibly years) and implementation to try and deliver what players want from the classes they will deem limited. As others have pointed out before me, yeah, a class that can't at least meet current level cap, limited to dungeons and fights I've already done a couple hundred times, isn't exactly something I'm looking forward to, even with it's little carnival mini-game.

Other people above me have brought up other valid points or differing perspectives. Of course there's going to be a back and forth on this kind of a topic. We've also already gotten a couple threads on the subject already, minus the life-story. Before I get pounced on for this, we're both similar ages; we both know just about everyone's got health problems and there are things we latch onto to make our sufferings seem not so bad. Don't use it as a tool to push something.

[jon041065]

Other people above me have brought up other valid points or differing perspectives. Of course there's going to be a back and forth on this kind of a topic. We've also already gotten a couple threads on the subject already, minus the life-story. Before I get pounced on for this, we're both similar ages; we both know just about everyone's got health problems and there are things we latch onto to make our sufferings seem not so bad. Don't use it as a tool to push something.

I've already said I'm not going to debate limited jobs here as I'm doing that in the threads intended for that.

If I was attempting to use my MS to push for what I want, I would have mentioned it a lot more than just in the second paragraph while I was explaining why the game is important to me.

But I can't change how people perceive things just as I won't change my original post because some people are taking it in a different way than the way I meant.