Melbourne International games week Interview about content

[IvoryHawk]

So recently Yoshida had an spot at Melbourne International games week and mentioned they're making content that will take time to complete, and to please "please not retire guys", here's the link if anyone is even interested at this point.

https://ff14net.2chblog.jp/archives/61859467.html

[Supersnow845]

I mean I’m glad they figured out why this games population craters constantly (about damn time) but saying “please don’t retire it’s coming” is just so tone deaf considering we’ve been offering this feedback for years now. Like this isn’t a new problem that was caused by DT’s bad story, this was EW’s most common casual complaint as well

[Archeron]

"Pwease give us your sub money! Pwetty pwease! We pwomise that there will be something for you guyise to do!111!!1!!"

Ain't buying it. It's time for them to show us new content, not tell us about it nonstop while doing nothing to alleviate the painful long content lulls this game has.

[Kes13a]

yeah, watched it on Twitch when it was live.

I was shocked that after this long they figured out that *le gasp* making content takes time. imagine that... it doesnt just spin out of aether in an instant. shocker.

[Maltothoris]

It is interesting that last section of him saying "Don't retire." How bout giving reasons to redo the criterion savages from EW? I still find it utterly baffling how they ever thought those first set of rewards in Rokkan and Sidah were ever going to make the community engage with it.

[Hausti]

"Please dont retire" sounds to me like they're stretching the timegap between patches even more... :/

[Raven2014]

I don't know if any of the teams playing some of the F2P games on the market currently. I'm playing Wuthering Wave right now and after allocating a monthly budget similarly to FF14 (15$/month), the value honestly do not even compare. One of the thing it makes me realize is just how ... dated FF14 is. Writing, graphic, cutsceen, voice is either on par or a step above FF14. And the world exploration really make FF14 open world play feel like a game from 20 years ago.

One of most significance difference is just overall how ... smooth everything is. Transition from zone to zone, dialogue to cutsceen ... comparing to FF14's where you constantly going into a 2-3 seconds black screen when you need to switch from one thing to another. I didn't care much until the beginning of DT where the constant cut to black-screen became apparent due to how many unnecessary cutsceens there was. But now that I'm getting used to the smoothness of modern game it really hits home how bad the engine FF14 is. In a way FF14's cut to black now feels like the Starfield's loading screen meme.

And this is not something I think they can fix even if they want to. There is no deniable how limited the game engine of FF14 is. They really should have not rushed to conclude the Hyadelin story line. Between Omega, Garlemard, Zodiac they probably had enough for 2 expansions after end walker. They should have used that time to sunset FF14 while working toward a new MMO's engine for the next story. I don't think FF14 is so old now that it won't have what it takes to carry for another 10 years.

Also. you get new content every 1.5 months

[ovIm]

So recently Yoshida had an spot at Melbourne International games week and mentioned they're making content that will take time to complete, and to please "please not retire guys"

Reads to me like he is finally getting the message people have been saying for years on end.

Though at the same time, his wording worries me. "content that will take time to complete" in FF14 speak usually meant awful grind (like kill 1000 S-Ranks / Play 5000 PVP Matches grind) up until now.

A few days ago, I read somewhere on the forum that players wish for Yoshi-P to make "content where you lose track of time", which I found a nice way of saying things.

[Stasya]

that will take time to complete

"we did not even start on making things promised for dawntrail, please continue sub"

[SeriousPan]

I wish they could have done an interview in my country when things in XIV were going well and things were mostly positive. Kinda sucks to have them down under when my enthusiasm's at an all time low. I guess it's nice they remember Australia exists - maybe they can start actually selling physical stuff on the SE store to us though?