Creative Studio 3 is working on multiple projects at once.

[Galvuu]

Totally agree

Let's also just ignore the fact that Yoshi heavily criticized this sort of development when he took over 1.x and saw that the Miqote, Roegadyn, and Highlanders also weren't finished with having only one gender. Let's just ignore that Yoshi himself said it wasn't acceptable to cut corners on development and the fans deserved to have a full game, but you know, whatever I guess... we just forget and don't hold good ol' Yoshi to what he's said before.

Adding to this, I wish this game picked a damn lane.
Sometimes I see the poor state of job design and encounter balance justified as "raiders are not the main target audience".
But if it's more casual people/people who rp/people who glam/etc, then having two very incomplete races (not even mentioning the hideous rigging on female Hrothgar shoulders and whatnot) is a huge issue.
It's like everyone loses with XIV lately. I was playing on a Viera alt I made a while ago today (and never bothered playing) since I need another alt at 100 to help friends clearing Savage, and I was trying a random cute witch hat and took me a solid 15s to realize that the reason why the gear preview "wasn't working" was because Viera have no hats. Time to use my free Fantasia, won't catch me playing without my cute witch hat.

[Lazariah]

It is not a lie. It is limited to some of the players who play Viera and Hrothgar.

What was the point of pushing the developers to add a race to the game that has unique head features if all you wanted to do was turn around and hide those features under headgear?

Have a little pride in the choice you made and show those features off instead.

It is a lie and your argument is ridiculous, as many others have pointed out. Or do you have hard data on what you claim? I bet you don't. The onus is on you to prove it but you'd rather just spout nonsense to tick people off.

[Avoidy]

Adding to this, I wish this game picked a damn lane.
Sometimes I see the poor state of job design and encounter balance justified as "raiders are not the main target audience".
But if it's more casual people/people who rp/people who glam/etc, then having two very incomplete races (not even mentioning the hideous rigging on female Hrothgar shoulders and whatnot) is a huge issue.
It's like everyone loses with XIV lately. I was playing on a Viera alt I made a while ago today (and never bothered playing) since I need another alt at 100 to help friends clearing Savage, and I was trying a random cute witch hat and took me a solid 15s to realize that the reason why the gear preview "wasn't working" was because Viera have no hats. Time to use my free Fantasia, won't catch me playing without my cute witch hat.

This is indeed the funniest/saddest thing lately to me as well. If you want to make the argument that raiders are the ones this game is designed for, then it's a hard argument to make because raiders basically get 4 encounters to run once a week and that's it. But if you wanna say casuals are the primary audience, well, that's another tough argument to make because housing blows (never enough space, increases to housing limits "soon", borderline impossible to even get a house on certain servers, limited and unknown number of people allowed inside), casual content lacks replayability, the msq was a slog, the quests are mostly unvoiced, there's barely a reason to go out in the open world, FATEs are so few and repeat so often that you start to feel the monotony after 30 minutes in a single zone, there hasn't been a haircut, glam or mount that I've really truly wanted in years, and the market's perpetually screwed unless you get in on the literal first day that new content drops.

I genuinely don't know who this game is for right now.

[bic12]

Wonder if those projects will even receive the light of day before their entire company collapses LOL

[XtremePrime]

I don't think it's healthy to have YoshiP be game director for so many projects at once without sharing the workload with others. It feels like they're using his reputation as the "savior of FFXIV" just to prop up upcoming games.

[Jeeqbit]

I don't think it's healthy to have YoshiP be game director for so many projects at once without sharing the workload with others.

Which is exactly why he is sharing the workload with others. I doubt he is the director of the other games so much as the producer or supervisor.

"So nowadays, not only am I working on game creation, I am also involved with some of the company-wide tasks as well. So I feel that I won't be as prominently involved in some of the other projects outside of FF14. That said, I do belong to Creative Studios 3, and as you may be aware, we have recently announced Final Fantasy Tactics - The Ivalice Chronicles. So there are projects that are moving within our studio, so I will probably act as like a gofer, maybe side jobs, helping them out, but I think my primary focus right now will be on FF14."

[Hallarem]

Its kinda funny when you think of it. They are clearly trying to reach the phase where Final Fantasy was on top of the world. By trying to develop a plethora of projects.

But quality not quantity is what got them there back in the day. And they are alienating an already devoted old fanbase and shooting themselves in the foot. How many disgruntled fans do you think will buy their new projects and not just pirate them after they siphon submoney and do nothing to ffxiv with it for multiple years? Make ffxiv great, iron it out to perfection with full focus and THEN consider new projects.

[Kaurhz]

Its kinda funny when you think of it. They are clearly trying to reach the phase where Final Fantasy was on top of the world. By trying to develop a plethora of projects.

But quality not quantity is what got them there back in the day. And they are alienating an already devoted old fanbase and shooting themselves in the foot. How many disgruntled fans do you think will buy their new projects and not just pirate them after they siphon submoney and do nothing to ffxiv with it for multiple years? Make ffxiv great, iron it out to perfection with full focus and THEN consider new projects.

This is exactly it...

Like, when you look at the roadmap established for Dawntrail it actually looks really good on a glance.. But then you some of realize how streamlined the gameplay is in every capacity, like, I've done Eureka several times, and gotten all relics, and I could easily do it again, and there's always fun little snags to find out and discover... But I couldn't spend longer than 3 hours in OC without being bored to death... It honestly felt like LFG Z3 vibes all over again from Zadnor.

There have been some great additions but for the most part... It feels like putting a good system, on top of a bad system, to try and appease a crowd that they have long abandoned by trying to streamline absolutely everything... Expert recipes here are a perfect example for me.. Now I don't speak for everyone but literally... Expert recipes could be so good if they didn't turn the crafting system into one that is as boring as sin... Now I realize that is a contentious point in itself.

It's also funny, because seeing how hard they've been pushing some facets of the game... It just makes you realize what utter contempt they have for the broader game.

[TeresaFortell]

Its kinda funny when you think of it. They are clearly trying to reach the phase where Final Fantasy was on top of the world. By trying to develop a plethora of projects.

But quality not quantity is what got them there back in the day. And they are alienating an already devoted old fanbase and shooting themselves in the foot. How many disgruntled fans do you think will buy their new projects and not just pirate them after they siphon submoney and do nothing to ffxiv with it for multiple years? Make ffxiv great, iron it out to perfection with full focus and THEN consider new projects.

It's also likely a management decision to allocate the team to work on other projects as well. Though I understand they want to expand their portfolio, they seem to have too much on their plate at the moment.