YoshiP “Torn" Over What to do with the Scions (Interview)

[OdinelStarrei]

It feels yoshi-p possibly didn't play test dawntrail and left all responsibilities to junior staff and told them "have fun and try to be creative" while not overlooking anything and being too trusting that junior devs would make something good/playable. And it also felt yoshi-p was more out of touch then usual or corporate putting him on way too many projects at once while trying to maintain ff14 but also putting more responsibility onto others.

Remember when Naoki Yoshida delayed an expansion because he "just couldn’t contain his desire to further improve Endwalker’s quality"? (an attempt was made)

Remember when Naoki Yoshida took massive risks rebooting 1.0 instead of writing the entire game off as a loss like how Square Enix executives wanted? (risky, dangerous, unheard of, groundbreaking)

Remember when Naoki Yoshida would practically micromanage projects to ensure that it met the high standards of his life's work? (personal investment and responsibility for the ship he is steering)

Where did that guy go? Who is this Public Relations Representative that has his skin?

[BakoolJaJa]

Yet another interview - yet another complete miss. It's not even funny anymore. Not even the ffxiv sub is managing to defend that absolute crap.

Best case scenario, Yoshi P didn't play this expansion like some of you are theorising. Worst case scenario, the team lost the plot completely. He should stop doing these interviews. He's making things worse.

Also this is the last interview I read. I'm taking a break for now. This stuff is making me actively cringe. I keep on getting Destiny 2 vietnam flashbacks.

[Infindox]

I still think he's going to be involved in the Beastmaster limited job quests, personally.

Actually I wouldn't be against that. But only Beastmaster, nothing else

[Nebelheim]

Remember when Naoki Yoshida delayed an expansion because he "just couldn’t contain his desire to further improve Endwalker’s quality"? (an attempt was made)

Remember when Naoki Yoshida took massive risks rebooting 1.0 instead of writing the entire game off as a loss like how Square Enix executives wanted? (risky, dangerous, unheard of, groundbreaking)

Remember when Naoki Yoshida would practically micromanage projects to ensure that it met the high standards of his life's work? (personal investment and responsibility for the ship he is steering)

Where did that guy go? Who is this Public Relations Representative that has his skin?

It does feel like we have a completely different yoship this time around even compared to the release of just one expansion ago. I don't know if corporate put him and a portion of the ff14 dev team onto too many projects at once since it's rumored his division is working on 2 other secretive projects other then ff14 currently and he doesn't have the time to oversee and put all his time on ff14. Or if there are other reasons things turned out how it did with dawntrail.

[Rueby]

I still think he's going to be involved in the Beastmaster limited job quests, personally.

I'd be disappointed if Lyon rem Helsos isn't our beastmaster mentor....

[Hallarem]

I'd be disappointed if Lyon rem Helsos isn't our beastmaster mentor....

We're in the New World and we have seen like one Whalaqee so far? In the cooking questline. Wouldn't be surrpised if they just sidelined Lyon and Papaga for some new unrecognizable mentors.

[CidHeiral]

I don't have any particular problem with the Scions but it does seem like they're a bit played out at this point. It would be refreshing for them to not appear for the next expansion and come back later with some sort of character growth or change.

[Fawkes]

I'd be disappointed if Lyon rem Helsos isn't our beastmaster mentor....

Pagaga too pls

[AnimaAnimus]

I was really hoping they would go the FFXI route. Give us a new expansion, that had a new cast and new lands to explore all while still doing call backs and still having us travel to old maps and talk to the scions on occasion. It worked wonderfully in FFXI and each expac was exciting and felt fresh. I had really hoped that they rushed the Hydi/Zodi series to a conclusion because they wanted to adjust course and do something wonderful, like they were able to do for 12 years with FFXI.

I didn't want the Levelleur guided tour of the world. I didn't want a group of boring, white haired, scholars telling me what to do, I didn't want to have conversations that were just exposition dumps followed by everyone nodding and agreeing. I wanted my character to have more agency and be able to go on an adventure and discover for myself the dangers, figure out the trials, meet the people and negotiate with the villians. I wanted to be able to be free to go out and discover the world on my own instead of being told absolutely everything and having my hand held throughout the entire adventure. I really wanted to get rid of Alphi and Graha, the 2 scions that I wanted to slap and kick off a cliff more than any other.

Then we got DT. Not only did it not check any of the boxes I had hoped it would, but it actually made me miss going on a guided tour with Alphi and Graha. I feel like SE has been creatively regressing for years now. I really hoped with the change of CEO and the promise of quality over quantity was actually real. But I am losing more and more faith in SE as time passes and new release after new release cataclysmicly bombs. Ppl don't want this game to turn into WoW, but Blizzard paid attention to their players, listened to the discussions and considered the nuances of what they have been saying, and The War Within has been met with amazing praise. Yoshida needs to take a meeting with the current team at Blizzard and hopefully they can drive a few things home in him. This game doesn't need to be more like WoW, but they need to learn the new approach the devs at Blizzard are taking.

[DiaDeem]

If he really wants to try a story without them, them stop bringing them along like tokens that stand around and do nothing. And don't get me wrong: I love the twins, but I have no idea why they came to Tural.