Interview with Yoshi P

[Shougun]

Some interesting stuff in all of them, thanks for sharing- of course everyone would love to have more thick details on the expansion but that's going to be answered by themselves when they want to answer it themselves lol (not by someone asking them for it).

I chuckled for this one though because the forums, community at large, what have you, loves to make it a team death sport, like the rest of everything to be fair (not this game unique, just a weird human thing to do):

You’ve mentioned before that when redesigning Final Fantasy XIV you looked to World of Warcraft as an example of a successful MMO. What aspects of the WoW model did you end up bringing to FFXIV?

If there was no World of Warcraft – which is a game we look to as a great ‘mentor’ of sorts, and respect deeply – FFXIV’s strong recovery wouldn’t have been possible.

Naturally this doesn't mean copy paste, but inspiration, yet showing again that WoW, among other MMOs (which he is aware and references many others, and shows them respect too), has had influence and it's not some grand sin to reference since Yoshida himself views games as a learning opportunity (as he should, its free high quality research- you'd have to pay significant money to get this level of market and prototype research and it's all free, I'm glad he looks out to other games because not doing that would be like trying to do a marathon with one leg). Of course I also feel this is how SE works with us, often I feel our feedback is represented in design with their own twists (especially when you make a time scale of about 6 months to a year, if not longer depending on request). Inspiration, good.

On the whole inspiration and journey of crystal balls to funnels thing, I wonder if we had any influence on that - there was a thread on unique weapon concepts and I had posted both LoL champion with the swords that float behind her, FFXV's noctis, and then kael'thas with his crystal orbs, pushing for a weapon concept that involved floating objects, and then later posted Geoknight which used crystal pylons (floating behind the back). Of course it could just be circumstantial but it was a bit.. "wait a sec. . . " lol.