Quote Originally Posted by Nonsensicles View Post
Yes. Lots of guessing on your part, but somewhere on the way you seem to have gotten lost and forgot it was just guessing.

'Conductor' to me means someone who facilitates you getting to where you want to go, but you still have to choose your own final destination and work out a lot of other details and detours on the way. And a public transport system is never the only option.



'Q: Going up against heavy hitters such as Blade & Soul and ArcheAge, how will Final Fantasy XIV stand out?
A: Final Fantasy XIV has a more unique game history and culture, which is a big factor *refers to Final Fantasy 8, Faye Wong singing “Eyes on Me”*. Korean MMORPGs focus too much on the game itself, but not about the real life culture surrounding it.'

Nope. Not seeing that in there at all. You're just wilfully misinterpreting things, aren't you?
With all due respect (i.e., no respect), there's not much wilfull misinterpretation going on. All I did was paraphrase his attitude into words. You can't just lump Blade & Soul and Archeage into one group (Korean MMO) and treat them as identical and as just one-dimensional games. Korean MMORPG isn't exactly a genre.

I think it really shows a lot of ignorance to treat them as the same, since they are diamterically opposed in terms of subgenre (one is a theme park, the other a sandbox). So when I say he waives them off, there is actually a lot of validity to that claim, since it's obviously what he's doing.

If you read some articles on game-design by Jake Song (the director of ArcheAge) and compare it to Yoshi's blase approach, then you will see how far Yoshi falls short, and it comes across as arrogant to people who are up-to-date on other upcoming MMOs when Yoshi makes a throwaway phrase about korean MMORPS being all the same.

Last time i checked, FFXIV didn't have non-instanced house-building, shipbuilding, siege warfare, swimming, non-instanced airships, and multiple mounts (which can jump AND fight with you). Archeage does have those things. So he should be a little modest in the future, that's all.