Yoshi p & FFXI

[darkstarpoet1]

to the people claiming that yoshi came over from head of xi you are sadly mistaken. in yoshi's initial producers letter he stated he has never been on the front of any game in the past. he was a programmer in dragon quest and stated himself he had not even played xi on another occasion.

per yoshi:

"No doubt there are very few, if any, among you who have ever heard the name Naoki Yoshida. To be sure, I have never been in the fore on any of the titles I have worked on in the past."

http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...574cb9c3991c9f

i'm not saying yoshi is bad or anything like that so keep your flames to yourselves, but wanted to stop the lies that i've already seen in this thread before people start with he's been in charge of every single final fantasy ever and made all of the music for them as well.

[Delsus]

The people saying how SE "brought the producer/director from FFXI" are probably just a lil mistaken, because before Tanaka came to FFXIV he was the producer/director from FFXI, just putting that in there.

I think its nice that we have someone who hasnt played FFXI, the devs probably did (we know some worked on it) therefore they can give input from FFXI, and Yoshi-P knows how other MMOs work so he can bring those ideas in. FFXIV will be huge with this mix, I guarentee it

[VytasBismarck]

Some people care too much about developers... Like these kind of questions are really importaint enough to get Yoshi to take the time and post the answers... How about we stop spamming forums with stuff like this and let the guy do his job....?

[Dusk_Shardveil]

I agree with VytasBismarck in some ways. If you dont have something positive to say, or give thanks where it is deserved, or a suggestion to help the developers key into what would make the game better. It does no good. Its pointless to whine and complain if you dont have something constructive to add with it.

And yeah... I want this... I want that.... do you remember?... I want that too! hehe it can be very tempting to bring up those things we loved in past FF games. I am pretty sure Yoshi immersed himself into the genre and mythos that is Final Fantasy when he took on this job.

No-one is perfect. That said. I've liked the improvements to XIV so far. I was on XI for a little while a couple years back but left for XIV when it released.... regretibly in some ways... happily in others. I left XIV for a year and then returned finding it is now a game worthy of my hard earned dollar.

XIV is not XI and in some ways I dont want them to be alike. Tho I do like some of the small allusions to it as it is a Final Fantasy world after all. There are some things I miss. Level Sync and a real "follow" function. But we may be seeing some of the good things we saw back in the day, along with lots of new stuff, in 2.0

So keep up the good work, Yoshi. I applaud you and your team's hard efforts so far. I look forward to 2.0 and I hope things continue to improve and become more enjoyable. You cant please everyone, but you arent supposed to either, keep the game challenging and keep it on the course of having that less broken feeling it had in those early days. Thank you.

[Webster]

Dont get me wrong i think Yoshi is doing an awesome job. I was just wondering what he (or the community) thought would be worth carring over from ffxi. I really enjoyed the open world NM's - the uniqueness of the zones and the story line. I dont expect him to anwser...Im sure this is a very busy time with E3 and 2.0 and im sure we will all have a better understanding of the direction soon.

[Scherwiz]

So what I got from this thread was...

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