"Do The FFXIV Devs Play Their Own Game?"



Bellular & Matt are feeling the burnout! They talk about FFXIV, Yoshi P & If they devs play their own game.

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45 thoughts on “"Do The FFXIV Devs Play Their Own Game?"”

  1. Yoshi wants all this negativity gone and everyone to have fun playing their favorite games again. I wouldn't be surprised if Yoshi speaks with some WoW devs occasionally and knows there's a couple holdouts trying to steer the game back into the right direction, but I don't have any hope for the game. Yoshi was fortunate with ffxiv where the company understood the damage not fixing the game would cause. Activision-Blizzard only see's WoW as a cash-cow, they don't care about the player, just how they get the money from them.

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  2. Just to say too, yoship mains black mage and is pretty dang good at it, one of the few jobs that lock you to a position cause of its laylines mechanics, so he does what he says he does about learning raid mechanics.

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  3. There's a story about Yoshi P playing FF14 and one of the RMT whispered him about selling Gil. Ever since then, he implemented a shortcut that sends notification to the GM on RMT. This alone proves why it's important to have devs play their own game.

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  4. heh, i saw that title and the first that came to my head was "now damnit, i've seen full on livestreams with Yoshi P on his Lalafell black mage…" lol.

    I think Ion raids… period… sometimes…

    yea… slight difference there.

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  5. This sounds like something that should be obvious.
    But the developers SHOULD be the ones who're the best at their game, maybe not necessarily parcing 90+ but they should know their game well enough to be able to clear all the content, they should know the story, and they should know all the elements of the game that builds the game.

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  6. It's weird when you're willing to put tens of thousands of hours into a game but there's not a single game on the market that's able to provide what you're looking for. I'll just have to wait for the AI to replace class/ability designers and the story departments before I can scratch that itch. It's weird how some press from devs is just completely reasonable and doesn't bother you, and others come off like they were specifically designed to engage with the outrage algo.

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  7. Another content creator on the Media Tour asked Yoshida how much he actually plays. Remember that he's in Squenix's board of directors, director of the entire division of the company in charge of both 14 and 16 and lead producer of both projects. That's an insane amount of hats he wears.

    If I understood correctly (can't find the video now grrr), he said on average 2h a day. Two bloody hours, in a schedule that probably requires one of those Harry Potter time turners…

    Edit: Found it, it was Zepla's interview lol. https://youtu.be/8_mdi8RMbRk?t=281 if you want to see for yourselves. Also using his own personal account on the company's PC, power move.

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  8. I cant count the number of times that theyve added a feature or made a change that literally no one asked for and as soon as it was seen in patch notes the entire community agreed that it was the greatest thing ever. You cant get that from a dev team that doesnt play its own product, period.

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  9. This is an unfair criticism, there's no way WoW devs have the time to make the game, troll Twitter AND engage the endless hours of timesinks they massage into the game to hit retention metrics.

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  10. I've watched all your VODs over the past months and while I'm generally a fan I've noticed that you complain in every stream how tired you guys are. Its not just this episode but legit every Friday stream it feels like you guys spend at least 5 minutes talking about how out of it you are mentally and I think maybe you should just change your scale to where you only do the stream every second friday for example. It would work well since lets be honest theres not a lot of WoW news anyways.

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  11. Mike Ybarra did respond to this stating he was running M+, and selling heroic carries, lol

    The WoW dev that does play also actively promotes something that hurts the integrity of the game.

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  12. Blizz doesnt want you to buy boosts/in game items with RL money…. but allows you to buy wow token with real money to buy in game content/items. They just wont admit they were too lazy to deal with the RMT problem, so they decided to profit off it themselves.

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  13. Why is playing your game embarassing, if you dont play your own game your a fool or didnt really make it? You guys support a company that a young woman committed suicide because of sexual harass and assault then they shared her 'V' pics around the office and no one said shit so you are weak, stop giving them money or they will not change, sick ass MFers?????

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  14. To the question how does he find time to play the game, he said it in the Zepla interview. Every morning, when he comes to the office, he launches FFXIV on his work computer and play an hour or 2 on his personal account. (less now that they are in the Endwalker last rush before launch)

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