New things from German interview with yoshida

[Missbone]

These answer are not surprising because its all about money. It wouldnt be hard to make purchases account wide or implement an option that you can skip msq on a new char for example. But that would make them lose a lot of profit, for buisness its better if people just suck it up and buy stuff 2, 3 or more times, also if new chars could skip through everything that could maybe affect dungeon ques for new players and of course they dont want to change the fantasia addiction its a big money generator for them, i know people who buy fantasia 3-4 times each weak and look complete different each time.

At the end of the day Yoshi and Square are just another business company that want you to spent as much money as possible on them and not your friends.

[GeminiReed]

Mostly, this an interview given in Japanese, translated to German, then translated again into English by Reddit.

There really is no guarantee that the subtext you find "ignorant" is a fair translation of Yoshi's words. After all, do you really ever expect Yoshi to say "Short answer: No?" In fact, if you run the article through google translate, it doesn't even say that, This is more like Reddit inserting shit.

What he says, according to google translate is:



Completely different to what Reddit said.

What I said was: "breathtakingly greedy (or ignorant)". The parenthetical was me being charitable. While Google Translate's version is phrased much less aggressively it skews far more towards "greedy".

These answer are not surprising because its all about money. ... But that would make them lose a lot of profit, for buisness its better if people just suck it up and buy stuff 2, 3 or more times, ...

Businesses would love to squeeze as much revenue from customers as possible but amazingly customers aren't so agreeable. Consumers have this very bad habit of taking their money elsewhere when the value you provide isn't worth the payment you demand. The even have the temerity to give their money to your competitors when they feel they get a better deal or even feel that you've disrespected them.

tl;dr: Remedial Business Basics says: Sacrificing long term customer relations for short term profits is a fantastic way to not have long term customers.

[Wind-Krysvein]

Q: You announced that Male Viera will be added in 6.0. A lot of players are still waiting for additional hairstyles or the option to wear hats on Viera or Hrothgar, are these being worked on and potentially introduced with the addition of Male Viera?
Short A: Not yet
Long A: First off, the reason why Viera and Hrothgar can't wear hats right now is the following. We have very standardized specifications when it comes to head gear and the unique design with the long ears on Viera doesn't always meet these specifications. If we allowed every head gear piece, it would lead to clipping or other errors. The unique design of Viera and Hrothgar just prevents us from allowing these pieces, if we want to follow our specifications
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.

Is it just the translation, or did he just completely politiciandodge the hairstyle issue by focusing entirely on the hat thing?

I don't mean to sound ungrateful, because the fact that they're addressing these issues at all is good, but it sure would be nice if we got dev responses for both questions asked.

[Nanchi]

Is it just the translation, or did he just completely politiciandodge the hairstyle issue by focusing entirely on the hat thing?

I don't mean to sound ungrateful, because the fact that they're addressing these issues at all is good, but it sure would be nice if we got dev responses for both questions asked.

Just throwing that out there that he was WAY more elaborate in the interview than what was given in this thread and I hope that OP rewrites his opening sentence because now it seems like yoship doesn't give a damn about this topic when this is far from the true. He even said

"For this topic alone I was in a meeting yesterday and next week we will have another meeting about this topic. Players can be rest assured that we are actively thinking about it and I hope they can wait a little bit longer. Hopefully soon we have some good news to tell."

Also I dont know who said this was org in japanese, source said it's from buffed themselves and they held it in german.

[DPZ2]

Also I dont know who said this was org in japanese, source said it's from buffed themselves and they held it in german.

I suspect that Yoshi P does not speak fluent German, so there would be a translator present.

Japanese -> translated into German -> translated (sort of) into English -> summarized (with biases intact)

[Wind-Krysvein]

He even said

"For this topic alone I was in a meeting yesterday and next week we will have another meeting about this topic. Players can be rest assured that we are actively thinking about it and I hope they can wait a little bit longer. Hopefully soon we have some good news to tell."

Alright. That's a bit reassuring, at least.

Yoshi-P is a fairly competent developer for the most part, but at times it feels like he's under some ridiculously strict embargo to not discuss certain long-standing issues with the game (cough egi-glamour cough).

And it really doesn't help that Shadowbringers was clearly made under massive financial pressure from SE.

[Evergrey]

...Yoshi-P is a fairly competent developer for the most part, but at times it feels like he's under some ridiculously strict embargo to not discuss certain long-standing issues with the game...

Not really a direct comment to you, but that part made something click in my head.

Anyone, correct me if I'm wrong. but didn't he mention at some point that he didn't want to talk about things that aren't certain as if they did people would expect things and when it perhaps didn't turn out as he previously stated people would get upset?
If that is the case then I can understand why we don't hear about stuff more often than we currently have.

[KizuyaKatogami]

These answer are not surprising because its all about money. It wouldnt be hard to make purchases account wide or implement an option that you can skip msq on a new char for example. But that would make them lose a lot of profit, for buisness its better if people just suck it up and buy stuff 2, 3 or more times, also if new chars could skip through everything that could maybe affect dungeon ques for new players and of course they dont want to change the fantasia addiction its a big money generator for them, i know people who buy fantasia 3-4 times each weak and look complete different each time.

At the end of the day Yoshi and Square are just another business company that want you to spent as much money as possible on them and not your friends.

I just wish the money would be going toward the game and not being funneled to their other projects lol.

[RyuDragnier]

It was common enough feedback over the years, too - but for whatever reason the development team decided to add not one but two new playable races at the same. Not only did they do as much, they ended up having to add the missing genders in addition because naturally when people only get half of something, a lot of them want the full thing.

From what I recall (meaning don't take this as gospel truth, I'm going off what I think I remember), originally they were just going to do Hrothgar but for whatever reason decided to do Viera as well, leading to the current situation.

[ItMe]

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”

Us, healer, is a third-class citizen. We don't even get our special mount like a tank. ¯\(°_o)/¯
There's no new healer for 2 expansions straight. And now that it's coming they don't even get mentioned.
This feels almost like being a middle child. You only exist when you fail. XD

I haven't been around long enough to catch a pattern, how much do they usually tell us about the new jobs?
I don't remember them saying too much about DNC/GNB, especially when those jobs were 6 months out the old interviews I'm finding are on the same level of "augments self & has shields" and "fights with friend & build meter for combo attacks."
But yeah, it's a big shame the interviewer didn't think to ask about both upcoming jobs : (
Especially since one job's development just clicked, and the other had a more involved development process... you'd think they'd have fun things they'd wanna say about the job regardless.