New things from German interview with yoshida

[RyuDragnier]

I’m hoping for them to give more info on sage. Seems like they just devoted a lot of time to explaining Reaper and all we got for sage was “augments self attacks and shields”

It may also be because they're trying to figure it out currently themselves. Remember, they haven't had to take a good long hard look at balancing healers since HW. For them, this may be the time they're actually learning how the healers actually currently play in content, and it may lead to an actual well balanced healer state like with the tanks.

[GeminiReed]

Q: A lot of players enjoy making new characters, but get scared of having to redo everything. Are there any plans to make Achievements, Minions and Mounts or even Glams account wide?
Short A: No
Longer A: There is NewGame+ if you want to play the story again, there are Fantasia if you want to change your looks and if you want to make a new char for RP get a level boost on the Mogstation

That's breathtakingly greedy (or ignorant) response for a game that insists on a full sub price. Oh well, their loss, I don't buy single character stuff from the cash shop. Guess I'll stop buying the account wide stuff as well.

[Puremallace]

Short A: No
Longer A: There is NewGame+ if you want to play the story again, there are Fantasia if you want to change your looks and if you want to make a new char for RP get a level boost on the Mogstation

Thank god. I have been worried they would change the core fundamental systems of this game to fit people that was to roll alts for the sake of a different look or whatever. Glad they are not wavering from this.

[Sathona]

Thank god. I have been worried they would change the core fundamental systems of this game to fit people that was to roll alts for the sake of a different look or whatever. Glad they are not wavering from this.

Honestly i cant even be mad at that answer, its not even greedy, and ure right, fundamentally the game is anti-alt friendly, people forget FFXIV is still a bussiness but /shrug
sometimes i wonder if people are mad because they really are mad or because they FEEL like they should be

[Callinon]

If we allowed every head gear piece, it would lead to clipping or other errors.

Yeah... sure would be a shame if there were clipping problems with headgear.

Meanwhile I can't find a hairstyle that doesn't clip through head AND body gear half the time.

[Lanadra]

Yeah... sure would be a shame if there were clipping problems with headgear.

Meanwhile I can't find a hairstyle that doesn't clip through head AND body gear half the time.

Pretty much why I stopped using the hime cut despite how much I love that hairstyle, because the clipping with so many glamour sets was driving me up the wall.

[SaberMaxwell]

I would have thought the hard lessons learned with 1.0 would have stuck. I guess not.

I know little about Avengers but aren't they a separate studio under Square? Due to Square's hiring requirements I know they struggle finding people so I'm not super surprised that didn't get their A team. Shame, I had some interest in that. As a matter of practice I stay away from new MMO's until the studio can demonstrate they know how to deliver a solid experience.

Mankind is completely off my radar.

The real tragedy is they took the team that made Human Revolution and Mankind Divided, both top quality immersive sim games, and made them make a marvel skin for destiny. Adam Jensen's trilogy was CANCELLED FOR MARVEL. I'll never not be salty about that.

[Amnmaat]

Don't doubt YoshiP.
This line is very promising as far as hats/helmets for Viera/Hrothgar goes.

Nevertheless, we are aware of player feedback and we are definitely not the kind of dev team that ignores their players feedback.
There were a few things we said would be impossible to do, but we worked hard on it and made it possible in the end... I hope to have some good news soon.

So while it might be taking a while just the fact that he wants to fix this problem is good.
The hairstyles however, that's something they should fix on the shorter term, in terms of development time and money just giving them 1 or 2 existing hairstyles per patch, at the very least, would be appreciated.

Yeah... sure would be a shame if there were clipping problems with headgear.

Meanwhile I can't find a hairstyle that doesn't clip through head AND body gear half the time.

Yeah, nevermind how Au ra horns clip through some hats/helmets in the very same way that Viera ears would clip through. Same with tails, tails can clip through everything but that's fine, the line just has to be drawn when it comes to rabbit ears. Like I've said before, if the clipping on a specific headpiece is really bad they can angle it, resize it, or just don't add it. The majority of the hats/helmets however work fine with the ears from what I've seen from a mod that ticks hats "on" within the game for female Viera.

[Shougun]

In a world of hroth / Viera but restrictions or no hroth / Viera I'd choose the first everytime. Of course between both races no restrictions and or with restrictions I'd also choose the first again.

I'm not one to make many alts but I know others love to. I imagine part of it is their data structure issues again though, just like they have troubles making all things mog shop account wide, or think glamour, house, and other issues like that. Would be nice to hear SE investing against that. That said some of the reasons one would have an alt in say WoW don't exist at all for FFXIV due to our job system.

[Theodric]

I really hope we see some serious competition where rival MMO's are concerned. I hope at least one between Blue Protocol, Ashes of Creation and Pantheon manages to step up in that regard. With a proper rival, I think FFXIV would quite quickly come to resolve many of the issues that are arguably holding it back.

If Viera and Hrothgar were going to cause so much trouble, I really don't understand why they bothered adding either - especially when enhanced customisation for the existing playable races has been a common request for quite some time. Now we have two playable races who can't use most of the hairstyles present in the game and of the new hairstyles we do get, most are quite clearly designed with female characters in mind first and foremost even if they're technically 'unisex' - with little regard for those of us who play male characters and who wish for masculine hairstyle options.