Final Fantasy Game Director is a WOW player!

[Getmycov-gurubashi]

Real nice read and great respect for the most successful MMO in the world World of Warcraft

not only does he say WOW inspired him and gave him ideas on what( like implementing wows systems) to do to make Final Fantasy better but he is an avid wow player

enjoy

https://www.pcgamesn.com/final-fantasy-xiv/ffxiv-yoshi-p-interview-wow

[Kaurmine-area-52]

I think most people here already knew that.

[Caféaulait-burning-blade]

INB4

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[Baned-blackhand]

Nb4 !

[Rhielle-sentinels (Rhielle)]

@Kaurmine-area-52

I think most people here already knew that.

I am one of the few who didn’t! But I don’t keep up with devs or games I don’t play. Hell, I don’t even keep up with news or bios on devs of any game I do play. LOL

[Kaurmine-area-52]

I only knew about it because of this post I believe

If Blizzard treated their players like Square Enix does

That’s the key thing. They realize PvE is an element to their game but it isn’t for everyone. They didn’t throw their eggs into one basket. They expanded the world around it so the game wasn’t literally “raid or die.” Part of the development of XIV when Yoshi-P took over was making the team actually play World of Warcraft Cataclysm and MoP. Seeing what other games were doing and thinking on what systems would work, what they could improve, and what the downfalls were and not making the same mi…

I think someone linked an article where he said it in an interview a while back as well.

[Maleficious-wyrmrest-accord (Maleficious)]

They played WoW when you can get good gear with Valor Points that is (roughly) equal to tier and that’s pretty much the system they use, except instead of having tier sets they have the ‘token’ set and the ‘raid’ set where the only difference is the stat itemization and the rate of acquisition.

[Trissaleaf-moon-guard]

Yoshi-P also talks about loving Ultima Online and some other mmos too. In a very recent interview he talked about him and his team diving into New World as soon as FFXIV Endwalker launches and settles down. Hes very much a gamer and works hard at his character in FFXIV. He talks about earning the things he needs for his gear and how he and his team love casual players and hardcore ones.

[Swarf-proudmoore]

@Kaurmine-area-52

I think most people here already knew that.

I didn’t…

[Kaurmine-area-52]

Fear not brave Dwarf for you have now joined the most :]

[Rosenivy-area-52 (Rosenivy)]

This is the game that had a cross over event with Monster Hunter World so I already knew the folks there love a lotta games.

Hunting a Kulu Ya Ku with Chocobo music playing was fun. And Behemoth is still terrifying. ( That jerk monster killed a Dodogama. Evil. )

[Soulebreaker-hyjal]

Yep, Yoshi P has mentioned it a few times. And he said that he had his developers play WoW to see what to do when they did the FFXIV reboot.

[Krutz-bleeding-hollow]

@Soulebreaker-hyjal

And he said that he had his developers play WoW to see what to do when they did the FFXIV reboot

Nowadays, I’ll bet he has his devs play WoW to see what NOT to do.

He probably watches the WoW dev communications (or lack thereof) to learn how to not let a community down.

[Silverbelle-sisters-of-elune]

I recently heard that Yoshi P. has given 32 or so interviews that take an hour with various streamers. Zepla and Asmongold for instance, and no pre-submitted questions.

It’s actually quite nice to see that.

[Trustlvlfour-blackwing-lair]

@Baned-blackhand

Nb4 !

You really shouldn’t display women like that.

[Darkrose-eonar]

yeah and he also says he hates how some people are hating on those who don’t like fully commit to a game. Like how we get threads hating on Asmongold or whatever because they quit WoW.

[Kaurmine-area-52]

@Krutz-bleeding-hollow

Nowadays, I’ll bet he has his devs play WoW to see what NOT to do.

I’d be surprised
Anyone who values the quality of their work isn’t going to do some of the things Blizzard has done for years The one that I always think of first is Blood of Sargeras and Expulsom. There’s a vendor in Legion Dal that trades BoS for crafting mats and BoA order resources, there wasn’t at the start of Legion so if you were a double gatherer or just otherwise had no use for it then you had a way to trade it. Come BFA Expulsom has the same problem but no vendor, never added one I don’t think, why wouldn’t you have the vendor there on launch since you surely should have learned from Legion. I would imagine anyone working on a longstanding project would only make that mistake once.

Players can see the changes Blizz is going to make later and that’s why some players aren’t even surprised at the changes coming in 9.1.5, those are things that should have already been there.

[Duvainíl-moon-guard]

Fun fact…many game devs after 8 to 12 hour days…go home and play something else.

if only to not “take work home”. Or to see how other games do it.

for example I’d be guessing someone on the new world team also plays wow. and eve or some other mmo with a buy order system.

and said yeah…I didn’t like how wow lacks this. so, yeah, lets put in a buy order system. with the side not eve players like me are very happy with that. we don’t even go meh, you stole this from eve. By all means…be inspired and take that buy order idea.

I’d be happy if wow devs got inspired with buy orders too.

[Hezzlocks-khazgoroth (Hezzlocks)]

Yeah, imo it’s a huge contributer to FF14s success, and how it really should be for all head devs. He isn’t afraid to learn what makes other games good, and rather than just straight up copy those ideas, he looks to see if there’s any way to put an FF14 spin on it.

It’s much more preferable to the current Blizz way of “We know whats good for you so shut up and give us your money!” or other companies “I like your game, I think I’ll take it!”

It also really helps that we know he’s a gamer, we know he loves FF14 and wants to treat it right. When we look at Ions in we see… well… we see a shaman that has barely touched 90% of the systems in the game. Yeah sure he probably plays a lot internally, but we don’t know that, all we can see of his involvement is his barely touched shaman. He never shows any emotion over the game and, at least when he used to do interviews, just basically spouts out facts on what they are doing and why you’re wrong.

[Ândor-moon-guard]

Isn’t it interesting though? A game that seems to be loved is directed by a Dev who plays and cares about Wow, unlike Wow devs who don’t play it and seem to hate it.