You do realize Yoshida was talking about Final Fantasy XIV right? Not every "final freaking fantasy", but this MMORPG that is currently running. What would turn based combat for a job in an MMO even look like? How would you compress every job into a sub game? How much effort are they going to flush down the toilet to make that work just for another one-off minigame that barely anyone one will play after a week? And this is just considering how they would add a single player turn-based system to an MMO. Making it social with a party has the potential to be a god awful afkfest. Have you ever played a civ game with other people? Imagine that all the time. That's turn based gameplay where you need to wait on multiple people.

I'm all for calling BLU the awful shallow minigame it is, but cool it with the hyperbole. It doesn't serve any purpose and undermines the actual problems with Blue Mage.