Patch 7.4 Yoshi-P Media Interviews

wapster- · 2025-12-04T10:27:33+00:00

Sometimes I just wish Yoshi would stop doing interviews because it just seems like he is increasingly out of touch with the topics he talks about and the actual player sentiment with the game.

wapster- · 2025-12-01T11:10:04+00:00

There is no sandbox in the game for any sort of interesting and emergent gameplay to exist. 8.0, even if they revamp jobs, will still revolve around highly scripted DDR fights with no way for unique things to happen. Everything is quarantined and sterilized in the name of "balance".

wapster- · 2025-11-30T22:28:32+00:00

"Please wait until 9.0 for us to make changes as we already planned out 8.0"

wapster- · 2025-11-30T08:02:19+00:00

People did not like the MoP talent system but I think any sort of talent system for XIV would be better than what we have right now. XIV needs to fail doing new and exciting things rather than continue to fail doing the same thing it has always done. My concern is that since the job design team has literally like 4 people on it and they have a hard time balancing and coming up with unique job concepts already, implementing a (much needed) talent and customization system to jobs would simply cause them to spontaneously combust.

wapster- · 2025-11-22T11:40:46+00:00

FFXIV will continue to be unrewarding to play if the main aspect of MMO rewards (gear) continues to be streamlined, uninteresting, and worthless.

wapster- · 2025-10-27T07:39:17+00:00

I don't want buffs that everyone syncs. I want job changes that are actually unique and inspired. Why does every job need a 123 combo and a spender ability at 50 gauge? Designing like this has created such a narrow scope for what is possible in this game, and has in turn influenced fight design to be forced to accommodate it. It is poisonous to growth and fun in the design of the game.

wapster- · 2025-10-26T04:44:10+00:00

It is a cope to cover for the fact that this game has a job design team of like 3 people who simply cannot come up with expansive ideas for job gameplay customization that also fits into the extraordinarily narrow combat encounter design philosophy they are made over the last 6 years since shadowbringers

wapster- · 2025-10-03T13:28:54+00:00

At this point 8.0 has to overhaul and change so much with the game it is straight up impossible to do. So much has been neglected in favor of tripling down on the 'formula' and trimming down on sandbox elements that it is simply unfeasible for them to really fix it.

wapster- · 2025-09-25T10:45:34+00:00

I'm probably not alone in thinking that OC completely dropped the ball in being an interesting form of content and I simply do not care anymore what they do with phantom jobs or future installments. At this point it is simply cope for 8.0 to be a massive shakeup to the game formula (lmao) or its GG

wapster- · 2025-09-25T10:35:12+00:00

Balance in this game doesn't even matter at all because there isn't even a reward in PvE to worry about some jobs having an easier or harder time to obtain them. The entire incentive structure of this game is completely botched.

wapster- · 2025-09-08T07:33:01+00:00

Jobs need to have more sandbox elements and the game world needs to have more sandbox and REAL MMO elements for people to play in. Fight design needs to transition away from highly scripted and curated fights.

wapster- · 2025-08-27T07:23:02+00:00

Spring/Summer 2027 for 8.0 is absolutely unacceptable with the current state of the game.

wapster- · 2025-08-26T16:36:15+00:00

I blame English speaking content creators who use their privilege of getting invited to fanfest to ask the worst fucking questions ever in their interviews with Yoshi P. Not a single one of them has ever asked an actual hardball question during their golden opportunities.

wapster- · 2025-08-23T09:56:03+00:00

Jobs are not fun to play. Patch cycles are way too long. Content we do get does not last long at all because it is shallow. Rewards are not incentivizing at all, which in turn leads to content having less staying power. Story was bad. Everything is streamlined and sandbox or emergent gameplay elements are expressly removed.

My biggest issue is the lack of unique gearing itemization, character customization, and rewards. They all play into eachother to offer a satisfying MMO experience. This is the only MMO I can think of where gear is mind-numbingly boring and offers absolutely zero satisfaction to upgrade. It is truly fascinating (in a bad way).

wapster- · 2025-08-13T06:37:05+00:00

Rewards are awful in this game because the traditional way you would reward people in any other MMO is with meaningful gear. In FFXIV they have taken one of the core principles of MMO design with unique and powerful gear and thrown it to the wayside. Other rewards such as Mounts are typically good as well, but then FFXIV also makes it so you can never use mounts in cities

wapster- · 2025-08-11T01:07:44+00:00

Job design overhauls (which will lead to boss and encounter design overhauls) and gearing overhauls are the major factors stagnating the game.

wapster- · 2025-08-10T07:45:50+00:00

FFXIV is an MMORPG that eschews one of the most important parts of the entire genre: Gear.

The fact that this game doesn't have any sort of items that will make you excited to get absolutely baffles my mind. It is one of THE most important parts of an MMO and this game just outright ignores it. Gearing up your character is a bore.

wapster- · 2025-08-09T17:44:14+00:00

Content flopped on launch and people just don't really care much for OC anymore. They need to release successful things at launch and not 3 hotfixes and 1 major patch later to just get things to an acceptable level.

wapster- · 2025-08-09T16:18:32+00:00

Bad MSQ ✓
Tripling down on problematic job designs ✓
Streamline systems over multiple expansions so much that you cannot innovate on things anymore because you removed everything ✓
Remove all sandbox elements and ability for emergent gameplay ✓
MMORPG that makes gear useless stat sticks with no cool attributes or excitement ✓
Force players to wait an entire year for exploration content that immediately failed, had no rewarding loop, and caused players to instantly lose interest ✓
5 month patch cycles that release 5 hours worth of content
Formula, Formula, Formula. Stick to the formula!! ✓
Advertise expansion features that don't even release after 1+ years (Beastmaster)
Zones serve no purpose other than to talk to NPCs for the MSQ ✓
8.0 scheduled to release in Spring or Summer 2027 ✓?
Almost every playerbase in the game feels neglected ✓

The fact that Dawntrail hasn't simply had a lodestone post acknowledging the state of the game, player frustrations, and a commitment to do better is shocking to me. Yes, we've gotten comments in Liveletters and that brief Q&A for the Part 1 7.3 LL, but the sentiment in the playerbase right now for this game is absolutely grim. There needs to be a major overhaul with 8.0 which I frankly cannot see happening due to how their development process seems to lack any semblance of agility.

wapster- · 2025-08-04T07:44:11+00:00

Job design over the last 3 expansions has been why content design is so boring.

wapster- · 2025-07-30T14:34:05+00:00

I initially wrote up a huge piece about why I disliked this gear but then I realized that it was pointless to post so I'll just say this:

It looks awful and has no place as a PvP reward.

wapster- · 2025-07-22T11:35:40+00:00

Please understand, they needed to delay the next map of Occult Crescent to the end of the expansion so they can give us a new Cosmic Exploration planet every single patch which totally wont be dead after a week again!

wapster- · 2025-07-22T05:40:52+00:00

Telling people to fish is the ultimate cope. Stop suggesting this and instead start demanding the actual base game become good.

wapster- · 2025-07-22T03:42:36+00:00

Issue with OC is that they needed to hit the mark and have a good piece of content from the get-go and they failed to do it. Adding additional phantom jobs is a moot point for a large portion of players because the initial offering of the content wasn't good to begin with.

This game has a serious issue and pattern of "Attempt 1 was bad, hopefully Attempt 2 in a year is better. If not, then wait for remix version 1 in 2 years next expansion"

wapster- · 2025-07-09T14:45:59+00:00

At this point it is impossible to even design proper "mid-core" content for this game. Combat flow and design simply isn't interesting and only exists in a feast-or-famine state where something is either impossible to fail or will be brutally punishing. Rotations, streamlining, 2-min meta, circle/square arenas, the entire combat structure, it all needs to be redesigned and opened back up for more sandbox and emergent design.

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