A trip down memory lane to compare the relationships the devs have with their players in FFXIV vs. WoW.
Check out The Popoto Pub FFXIV Podcast I just launched here: https://youtu.be/A-mEPtgDHzk
Clips from Asmongold, Preach Gaming, ZeplaHQ, Jesse Cox, Larryzaur, FFXIV Live Letter, and various WoW Dev Q&A’s. Give them all a follow!
P.S. I do truly hope that WoW can turn it around. I spent 16 years there and would like to feel good about playing it again, but in good conscience I can’t support Activision Blizzard until they create a better work culture, start treating their employees with respect, and start listening to their players.
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Holy shit ive never seen jocats face before, but I know his voice anywhere
I came from wow to ffxiv but the wow devs shown here isn’t that bad. There’s much worse out there.
Ion looks like the douche that throws you under the bus when you miss a meeting. Then, when he next sees you, he goes "Yo! the boss was trashing you at the meeting… ouch."
I like how Zepla's interview was 75% memes and jokes. Yoshi P played along so well. Love that man
Ide rather watch grass grow than play wow
We're kinda giving merit to Square Enix as a company by proxy, but let's not forget the reason XIV 1.0 was a massive piece of shit was precisely because they as a company weren't that much different from ActiBlizzard today. If it wasn't for Yoshida-san, we'd still have a terrible game with no autoattack, no jump and disabled forums so we couldn't complain about it, among other, more egregious things.
Many people find off putting how much XIV players idolize Yoshida-san, but he and his team are single handedly proving the company that if you take care of the game and make it good and fun to play it's going to be much better both for the players and for the company itself, rather than throw in the highest graphic nonsense and hope for the best.
Ion is the embodiment of "I don't give a fuck" 😂
Hey, it is refreshing that Yoshi and the devs address every issue and communicates with the players. Refreshing that they are not afraid to apologize and explain the problems so we can know what is going on. Refreshing that they respect the players. That the game has a story that is worth to fight your way through. That the early and mid-gameplay is as fun as the endgame content and thats all without the soulless grind.
WoW Devs are on a high horse, full of themselves for no reason anymore. The game became a grindfest. The story… let's… let's not even talk about WoW story anymore. They are systematically retconning the lore into a nonsensical mess just to fit the new bullsh*t in. And when the players rise their voices to show how unhappy we are with the direction this is going to…. we are just treated with more bullsh*t.
Sometimes it feels like WoW is getting torn to shreds on purpose. It is painful. Even when the entire community is yelling at them to change things because it will be a disaster on the long run, they just ignore it and run headfirst into the stonewall what everyone tried to warn them about.
YoshiP speaking to Asmongold with all that empathy 💛
The stock price at the end is chef kiss
YoshiP is the best director ever and I wish to defend this man till the end of days
Ion saying "ebb and flow of specs" is not even a joke, wow players have a fucking spreadsheet how some specs have been constantly real good for several years while others are just soo trash that you should not bother with them.
Like, I have to admire the guy. I could never get soo much out of touch with reality, dude must be injecting psyhodelic musrooms each hour.
Oc they act like that, you can see the confidence he had for endwalker
I'm sorry… Did I just hear a Lead Game Designer say "sorry, your class & playstyle are not viable, deal with it"?!
How does a Japanese game developer who don't even speak English communicates better (even with a translator) with CCs, while devs who does speak English have trouble making clear sense?
WOW is the american way, entitled and trash.
bless yoshi P
This video is proof alone of why FF14 got the award for "Best Community". Not only is FF14's community friendly to one another, but the developers and staff actually play the game and interact with its community and streamers. This is why they deserve that award.
Demo mains will never forgive, never forget.
While not mentioned in a dev video, I'm reminded of WoW's removed emotes during Zepla's emote question here
That translator Yoshi-P has is the true hero here, holy crap, that is a next level translator
FF14 changed my life. It’s so amazing. WoW is so bad. Ff has the best story and gameplay ever created.
And still Yoshi can't do housing worth a shit.
When dev makes their game for human in mind, the humans will treat, the dev like human beings, its called humanity.
The FFXIV dev team is amazing. Absolutely love them.
Not just Blizz lately it feels like if an Eastern Dev was actively hostile towards other core playerbase that would come as a shock to people. Whereas when a western or specifically American based developer is open and positively responds to player feedback and suggestion that is what shocks people. I've never seen another industry where you are rewarded for being openly hostile towards your own consumers besides the western games industry. You had Blizz devs calling people sexist for not liking Sylvanas, Bioware devs publicly celebrating the death of Total Biscuit and Naughty Dog calling you racist if you didn't enjoy TLOU2.
Imagine if every expac a Job was unusable in high level play. "Sorry, it's Machinist's turn to be the worst DPS job." Lmao, can't believe that's intended design in WoW
In a nutshell…..When Ion laughs its at his community…..Yoshi P. laughs with us….
warfraft crew is adversarial, defensive and patronizing. Terrible attitudes and enough negative energy to bring down any social interaction.
To be honest, I'm having a hard time with ff14. The switch from wow to ff14 is hard. But seeing videos like this makes me wanna keep going with ff14, Just for a chance of something better.
For now I saw only final fantasy devs licking streamers ass. Streamer isn't anyone more important than ordinary player, he doesn't pay more or is not more important.
out of all the people that quit blizzard recently and we still have ion bitchboy assokastaz