I just want a FF11 modern game.

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My thoughts on this are that FF11 could just be put into the FF14 engine so that it's more playable. I've thought about how that could be done and I don't believe it would really be that difficult if they use the right method and only change the client by molding it to interpret FF11 data, especially given FF14 and FF11 share similar concepts like linkshells, autotranslate, guilds, etc.

A lot of conversion work would need to happen such as creating FF14 actions for the menu actions in FF11, converting quests, upscaling textures, but probably a lot of that could be automated in 2025 with convert programs or AI. We can right-click targets in FF14 so it's not impossible that could be adapted to contain all the battle actions rather than just Attack, for people who prefer it. As for character customization, there are a number of ways that could be gone about but just choosing an FFXIV version of each part selection would be the least work, even if the races are ever so slightly different.

telling the playerbase on more than one occasion: "Please look forward to it" despite giving absolutely zero details on what they should be looking forward to.

They do give a lot of details on new "systems" and even enter the new content to show you how they work. What they don't give a lot of details on is usually story-related or battle-related, since they are meant to be surprises. Despite that, they do spoil some of it to give you a sense of what to expect, and even in Dawntrail's case the spoilers they did give to create excitement were enough to give a sense of the plot, aside from the time travel part.

I'm not sure why you'd want full and complete spoilers tbh. May as well just wait for the whole thing to release if you want that, then decide whether to subscribe.

The thing about Japan is that there are cultural phrases you likely don't understand. When I was playing with Japanese players on the cloud test DC, they all spammed "Let's do it!" at hunts. It came across very impatient, as if they wanted hunts and FATEs to be instantly pulled. I assumed it must not be impatient from their perspective but rather a cultural expression like how we use "o/". I explained that to a Japanese player and they said it's not meant to be impatient and that I should use it too. "Please look forward to it" is probably a similar thing that doesn't come across the same way when translated.

YoshiP was informed to wrap up his speech on Anime expo 2025 in two minutes because he continued to talk a lot about himself.

He's worked with limited time before. Pretty sure I recall him saying he had limited time at PAX. Sometimes at events like this, a previous event takes up more time than they were supposed to, leaving the next person with less time than they were told about, so it's possible he had less time than he was supposed to have and they were just informing him of that.