Well, there it is, Endwalker has been delayed. Yoshi has broke the hearts of many with his apologetic announcement of said delay, but we don’t have to wait too long! Also, keep watching to get an understand of just how BIG FFXIV’s playerbase is getting… it’s pretty giga. Let us know your thoughts on all of this!
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00:00 Intro
00:26 The Story – The Last Gasp Delay!
04:23 The Analysis – XIV’s Team Have Earned Trust
09:34 The Census – The FF XIV Playerbase
16:14 The Raids – RaidSim Community Spotlight
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I don’t play this game , but I wish only the best for Yoshi P.
I'm an insane.. i have 4 characters level 80+ (because i play on 2 datacenters lol)
Yup Yoshi-P has all of my respect, I wish more devs were like him.
No good game dev wants to work for Blizzard now. Most of their work will be from contract workers. Sure they JUST NOW announced better pay and benefits for contract workers but look what it took to get that. So no good game developer or programmer would trust applying for a job at Blizzard now.
I'm pretty sure I remember a few live letter-style updates for FFXV the last couple of years prior to its release, but it's certainly not the same as the live letter just because it's not a constantly updating game.
Daaaaayumn this expansion is going to SLAY.
The gaming industry as a whole could take a lesson from yoshi.
i say it again, peoples which putting their vacation torwards game releases in times of a pandemic are dumb. i mean, to be fair. the announcement of the delay came a bit late but my point still stands. dont putt your god damn vacation torwards game releases >_>.
If Activision/Blizzard had a fraction of the transparency and integrity as this guy, they'd not have half the issues with wow.
Blizzard is currently subsidizing FFXIV's advertising budget. Every dollar in PR and marketing Blizzard spends promotes FFXIV more.
Hajime Tabata did "Active Time Reports" during FFXV's development. They were very similar to live letters. There is also Sakurai with Smash. Those aren't live but its still the head guy telling you what is going to be added.
Definitely support delays if it leads to better value for the end consumer so hope that happens here. Im not sure I will be back, I had fun with Heavenward but didnt like Stormblood much and liked Shadowbringers even less and really I feel the story is trapped by the genre its in. Its just feels like there are no stakes and the pacing is awful made even worse by having to include necessary gameplay contrivances that are central to its grind. With it being the end of the arc apparently I kinda feel obligated to suffer through it but at the same time I kinda dont want to especially now as a lot of the players I gamed with have stopped which was my central pull back before.
However from what I know of the dev team which is little and third party they do seem genuine in wanting to put out a good product and if that is the case I wish them all the best even if its not something I can enjoy.
Im honestly interested in what they do with FFXVI freed of the confines of an MMO. If they can keep Nomura out of it they may be able to have a FF with a decent story again.
You would think they WOULD learn from Yoshi P and FF 14… but the problem is.. They wont. Blizzard devs have way to much pride. To lower themselves and admit.. That they DID fuck up. And that would NEED to look at other mmorpgs that are popular right now. To know WHAT they should add in world of warcraft. But this is Blizzard after all. They wont lower themselves enough to copy what people like. Because they think they KNOW what WE want. AFter all "You think you want it… But you dont"… And how big spike in SUBS were there when Wow Classic went live? So much more than the live game that was already out at that time.
Transparency. That is what YoshiP has in spades that makes us follow him. I don't mean just telling us things either, or talking to us on a shitty headset so we can see how down to earth you are. He shows us a real person and talks to us like we are right there in front of him. He doesn't hold back, doesn't pass the buck, and doesn't tweet out some trash that went through a team of sensitivity experts and reads like bland excuses.
YoshiP is transparent in his dealings with us and consistent in his delivery of excellence. So when he says he needs two more weeks to give us the largest expansion yet… He's got it.
I remember practising the Teron Gorefiend fight in Black Temple on a flash game.
Anyone know the song being played from 0:00 – 0:13? it sounds so familiar but can't think of it.
I don’t like Final Fantasy at all but I’m glad this game has absolutely blown up. It seems like it has caused more nervousness to Blizzard than any other competitor before. I hope it can help create a better wow but it’s just Copium
https://youtu.be/S19MyXwOTig
The Wow team definitely needs more resources. It's going to take a lot of time to sift back through old content to remove quests and add additional bowls of fruit across the game. Hopefully they will rewrite sylvanas windrunner's story also. I hear the save the trees people were really offended by the burning of teldrassil.
the thing is as ff14 grows yoshi-p will eventually get his wow sized budget. SInce I Imagine he has to ask for a bigger budget as the game attracts more players for each expansion
Honestly I'd want to support the devs even if I wasn't already playing the game – this level of communication and realness is sorely missing from the AAA space, and can really only be found in smaller or indie developers now.
My hope is that if FFXIV is really successful, it could change the outlook of other AAA studios and move them a bit closer to their consumers. Or at least, change the outlook of Square as a whole – while Creative Business Unit III is great, the rest of Squenix is still pretty stuck in its old ways
Surely even heartless corporate types could see the value in being open with their customers when it buys this kind of trust and loyalty
When you give respect, you’re much more likely to get respect.
Of course Blizzard is hiring they just had to do a BIG flush of turds. Blizzard will NEVER put more resources into ANY of their games, Bobbie's SNOUT is too deep into the money trough and he likes to feeeed.
Its not often you see devs take such pride in their works and or respect their consumers. I might actually jump back in to FFXIV(haven't played in about 3 years), just been so freaking hard ever since I became full-time at my job.
Lol, copium.
"FFXIV has interesting things, blizzard will put more money into wow." Vestiges of an idiotic platitude. (The stupid community delusion that if both games are good, all games are good. Which is false.) Ion doesn't care, investors don't care, they think WoW is top dog. FFXIV has been a better game than WoW since 2.0 base. It's gotten better and better, whilst WoW has gotten worse.
Blizzard are more focused about sniping release dates from many companies and releasing shitty rushed products that always backfire on them to meet financial quarter sales quotas, but even then, they're not reaaaaaaaaaaally doing that any more are they? WoW will never actually improve, you'll get a fresh bandaid, players will be like "Cool!" And then Ion will IMMEDIATELY rip it off, for no reason whatsoever.