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- Опубліковано 19 вер 2024
- Asmongold Reacts to FINAL FANTASY XIV (FFXIV) Documentary by Noclip, telling you about the brutal failure of FFXIV 1.0, how an MMO got reset while having an active playerbase & how Final Fantasy 14 eventually succeeded becoming one of the most popular MMORPGs.
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I'm a legacy player. I still get that discounted price - I didn't even realize when I rejoined I would get a discount. It's basically half off, and it's awesome.
You deserve it for supporting the game as it was. Even Yoshi-p stopped playing after 5 min. Lol
Same. Shows a level of respect rarely seen these days.
Yoshi-P is the type of person who believes his position isn't a seat of power, it's a seat of responsibility.
Heavy is the head that holds the crown.
A good manager is someone who ensures everyone they're managing is able to find success. When everyone can just go to work, know what they're doing, when they're getting an approval, and when it's due. Someone who can step back and see all the forest through the trees to ensure the project is moving forward.
A Seat of Sacrifice, if you will.
You even could say its a seat of sacrifice
@@knowwhoiamyet damn, Just noticed you did the joke before me
Whether you enjoy the game or not, I think we can all agree that being able to pull this off was an amazing feat. Not just by Yoshi-P, but by the whole team, and by Square Enix themselves for having the testicular fortitude to actually agree to it. The success cannot be denied. Incredible story.
In Japan, people tend to not overtly display their emotions. Especially in the workplace and in positions of leadership.
When Yoshida cried on stage that day. He let everyone know, he truly cared... For his team, the game, and the players.
Many of us were unsure where FFXIV would go and were just hopeful that the game would be good.
Little did we know. That we were witnessing history and legends in the making.
The journey was worth it.
Maybe he wanted to take revenge on us by creating a canopener for emotions of a game and make us all cry repeatenly.
Hmm... Is that bait I smell?
And now we got another masterpiece in ff16
I was living in Tokyo in 2011. Kinda similar to people learning the status of friends through the game, I remember using Facebook heavily at the time to find out people were ok or not because phones were overloaded and basically impossible to use. But yeah, it was so eery to drive through Tokyo when they were doing rolling black-outs. A city that is never dark....being completely black except for cars.
I cant imagine how it was. I just remember well the day it happens and just watching the news and being in complete shock.
I love Japan I have been multiple times and love the people so it was really devastating . I remember contacting also trough FB some people I knew.
Something that still give me shivers: I often visit a site where I can look up earthquakes all over the world 2 days before the big one in Japan happened I thought to myself the data suggest that a bigger one will hit japan I hope it wont happen (they had a lot of smaller ones just before the big one) . Then it happened
I was in Kanagawa. I remember it being a half day at school and my friends and I was going to go hangout at machida. We didn’t because one end up being busy. I remember the schedule black outs announcements siren, traffic lights are off and had a person direct traffic, and stores having only half there lights on.
I live in Fukushima now (have since 2018) and I've visited Minamisouma, near the plants to do volunteer work.
Even that at night is eerie - you can clearly see the town area, the traffic lights still work, but everything else was silent and dark.
Can't imagine that scaled up to Tokyo.
Was in Osaka at that time. I remember the eerie feeling when even 1000km away from the earthquake, the building wouldn't stop shaking for minutes. Everyone knew something was wrong, even though you have smaller earthquakes on a daily basis in Japan. Still getting the chills remembering watching people driving away from the tidal wave live on TV.
Was near Yokohama working on a Navy Ammunition installation. Everything started shaking, went outside and remember watching the cranes from the shipyard next to us shaking violently. Then I realized that all the ammunition stored could potentially be falling over and maybe even exploding any moment....Luckily that didn't happen. The other thing I remember vividly is watching nearly the entire bay drain of water and minutes later the tsunami's coming. Again luckily being a bay most of the tsunami was absorbed where we were.
I was a part of 1.0 and the Great Goobbue Wall to see how the game started and go thru the new realm and rebirth of the game is my greatest experience in gaming period. Such a disaster to become one of the great MMOs is amazing. From The fall of Dalamud to what Endwalker ended up being man 10 years of story and history to experience wish I could re love those moments again
Heavensward = Story & quality of life goes from 0 to 100
Stormblood = Combat and overall gameplay/game design goes from 0 to 100
Shadowbringers = Everything, including combat, goes from 0 to 1000
Endwalker = It's over 9000
Props for the best comment ever
OST always 9000
I agree 100% 😎🖤 And when Asmon finally start playing Shadowbringers and Endwalker, it's gonna be good time for sure 🖤👌
Also i think he gonna love Omega and Strormblood alliance raids too 👌
@@luiz8755 lol, that's a fact. The one thing Yoshi-P has never had to worry about was quality music
I was just 150KM away from Fukushima when the quake hit. I was in the shower before work as it happened. My house split in half. Literally everything fell off the shelves and shattered. My company was closed for a month, so I was stranded at home for the entire time. Shops were all closed. Convenience stores had no stock and trains weren’t running, so we couldn’t even meet friends to be together. After a month, once things slowly started up, the supermarkets limited any of one item to one per customer, so you still had to ration. There was no toilet paper for months which sucked the most. It was made worse when they said don’t go outside during rain because it’s radioactive and my home country embassy was emailing me telling me to leave ASAP
Does the radioactive actually big problem? Cuz it seems from what I read during that time it was never like AND RADIOACTIVE IS THERE TOO, it's just like btw nuclear plant also in fukushima
@@fankdark8946 it’s hard to say. Apparently In the plant radius and surrounding suburbs it was an issue. It became a ghost town Because entire populations were removed. The food from crops was all contaminated there too. But I didn’t hear much else locally
@@prisoner817 impossible to say if there was, but there were zero reports of looting - as in no insurance claims or police reports on looting.
Some of it is culture, though it would be stupid to generalize an entire people by some orientalist lens, but there are legal incentives that have reinforced a culture of honesty in property ownership from a young age and not stealing and generally when people are shocked into survival mode they default into what they have been brought up with.
The second significant factor is ironically due to the high prevalence of organized crime. Organized crime syndicates patrolled their local streets and enforced order. The three main houses of the Yakuza were very public about their role, announcing that their crews would be patrolling to prevent looting and robbery. One of them shipped humanitarian aid, another opened up its facilities for people to take immediate shelter in when transportstion home wasn't possible.
Did you end up staying?
I made this comment on another comment, but I currently live in Fukushima (since 2018) and I visited Minamisouma for volunteer work quite often.
What work were/are you here for? I know a few foreigners that got basically permanent employment on what should've been timed because of their diligence and overall support to the community during the disaster.
@@prisoner817 basically zero. I only heard of Chinese residents stealing toilet paper and food from stores and public toilets. What the comment above said about the yakuza is totally true. They helped a lot. I’ve never had a bad encounter with yakuza. They’re always chill. Buy you drinks even.
It's funny seeing Yoshi P dropping hints years back about possibly leaving SE if he hit a point where he wanted to pursue making his own game. It's pretty clear he was able to leverage his massive success and SE's need to not lose his talent into getting his Director position in the company, alongside having full control over the FF franchise and a major role in the making of FF16.
At some point you either give the man a seat at the table, or he's going to walk out the door. I think SE made a very, very good decision.
Nothing makes me want to play FF 14 more then seeing the love and dedication of the team... The Hildibrand quests help too those are just wild. It's just a good game and it is so because the people at the top of it care about it and you can really feel that players aren't an afterthought that can be taken advantage of.
Nothing ever makes me want to drop the game like player housing. Recent changes didn't help at all.
@@alexandermccalla5098 yeah it's crazy that they can't get that figured out. I've never seen anything like it. As someone who spent way too much time in Rift decorating my dimensions, I hate that I will never have a house, and that even if I do, it will always just be that. Just another house.
Hoping Island sanctuaries will offer something fun.
@@Grayald i haven't been keeping up with XIV recently. Is "Island Sanctuary" a new housing thing? Because what I'm imagine would be dope. Would basically be Costa de Sol but you swim or use boats to get between the private islands. Alternatively, I'm thinking that it could be instanced islands like apartments.
@@alexandermccalla5098 we're actually not sure exactly what it will be yet. But it sounds like it'll kind of be like what the name suggests. Players will have their own personal little islands that they can customize. I think you'll be able to build houses on it or something? Not sure to what extent. You can also have your minions running around freely, like some kind of little Pokemon ranch or something. And you'll be able to have friends come in and hang out. They had a few people that recently made some videos on the upcoming patches, which I think is when it's going to be implemented. 6.2 or something. They give a little more detail, but still, we don't really have all the info.
@@alexandermccalla5098 Yep, the problem means that the dev team has to abandon their core philosophy and redesign their approach to player housing. They imagined player housing to be a place where people can come and go like neighbors in real life, meaning they couldn't make the player housing instanced. Initially many people didn't really use housing and in 2012-2014 houses were essentially empty.
Because of this philosophy, well-intentioned and a pretty good idea on paper, each time the team wants to expand player housing, Yoshi P and his team had to bargain with Square to buy new physical servers, needless to say, can be complicated, though now I think Square is much more receptive to listen to Yoshi P's concerns and demands than a few years ago. Now getting new physical servers is a bit difficult because of the semi-conductor shortage and may continue to be a problem for at least a couple more years as factories, jobs, production, and shipping lanes slowly fix themselves (well and fixing wages for many people because a lot of shipyards are experiencing shortages of workers because of low wages and increasing desire to unionize (not a bad thing)). Changing direction takes time and resources, they will need to reprogram their spaghetti code (remember they put ALOT of technical debt to get ship ARR out on time and it was on PS3, apparently there are vestigates of flawed programming, and some of their workers not employing good coding practices (keeping notes)) and keep player housing as it is while developing a new instanced housing.
Their idea of a lottery I think is better than the old system of getting bots or sitting in front of a house for several hours straight, but they needed to have more servers which to solve is complicated by the current world situation.
HE FOLLOWED UP! Thank you for keeping true to ur word Asmon :) i am absolutely stoked for your return to FFXIV. Lets goo!
It cannot be understated how much hard work and dedication went into rising from the absolute depths of Hell into the greatness of FFXIV. Many on the team didn't survive (not literally, I mean burnout and leaving company or to different depts.) but they managed to pull through in the most amazing way. All thanks, not just to Yoshida's great leadership, but to the devs mental fortitude!!
The formula I think games companies have tried but massively failed to replicate since
It all comes down to great leadership and Yoshi-P is a great leader to his team
I dunno man. I think an investigation into crunch culture in Japan's development industry might be quite confronting
@Jay Bee No Man's Sky do Yoshi-P "Plan A" which is gradually fix the game with exhange for their reputation.
And most players only coming back to that game in the third big patches of the game.
I'm not trying to downplay the Hello Games developments team but it is what it is.
While FF XIV 1.0 do Yoshi-P "Plan B" which was basically destroy their old hardwork that they spend time & many resources to it, and then rebuild a brand new game with the same name. "Plan B" is the riskier of the two because if it didn't work, then you can't do nothing about it while with "Plan A" you can still _fix_ it but with the company reputations is in shambles.
@@unknownguyindo4356 Exactly This. No man sky also was not as broken as 1.0 was. It just had no freaking contents and no online support
They just introduced contents each patches, while Yoshi had to make literally a new game and at the same time fixing 1.0
It took like what?? 3 and almost 4 years for CP 2077 to be playable, and by modern standard open world games, even with all the patches and fixes CP 2077 is still lacking. On the other hand, 14 ARR was made in just 2 years.
I remember hearing a player back in 2.0, quit after a few hours of playing the game. His reason was the fact he couldn't get that cool Legacy Tattoo on their character 😂😂
@@ricky_pigeon go for it man, I envy your tattoo
*Asmon:* "I heard Final Fantasy XV wasn't that good..."
*Me:* "Well, ya see, that's a yes and a no..."
Asmon, one of the reasons there was no looting was some of the first groups to respond with aid, supplies, and keeping order when it was safe to go in were the Yakuza groups. Most people would not think a criminal group would be like that, but one has to keep in mind that even Japan's organized crime syndicates have a serious code of honor and ethics. They firmly believe in serving the public as much as they engage in crime (they even do Halloween events for kids and yes, the candy is safe). It is a sort of weird thing to get used to. Gaijin Goombah did a video on them once I think.
EDIT: The video is rather fascinating to watch as it gives you eye into things.
So you're telling me Kiryu Kazuma is real?
@@Gennosuke1983 Of course, he's an idealized Hollywood-esque version of that kind of "yakuza boss does good for the community to keep a good rep while beating the fuck out of his rivals", but generally speaking the *spirit* of such yakuza chairmen did serve as inspiration for Kiryu and the entire Yakuza series.
This docu series is a masterpiece, to be able to get them to tell this amazing story so it does't get lost to time is beyond amazing.
I came in when Shadowbringers came out and found this by concidence and it blew me a way, still does.
Keep it up u awesome devs and great playerbase, never had as much fun in a MMO then in FF 14.
I arrived in Japan (was in the Navy) just after this, and it was still affecting things, including folks in the US Navy providing humanitarian aid. And a girl I met there, also in the Navy, had a brother who died in that Amazon tornado thing that happened recently. Crazy how these things connect themselves over time. But yeah, Yoshi-P showing some actual human decency must seem wild for us Americans.
There's just a few days left before Asmongold Bald makes his grand return, together with his FAMILY.
@@limecat7996 He is in Sea Lion's FC on Cactaur.
@@limecat7996 fuck me. I transferred off Cactuar to play with friends on Diablos. Now I learned Nyanners and Asmongold play on Cactuar.
@@Joseph-R data center travel is coming in 6.18 so don't worry
I remember the goobbue wall. When at an early point in the ARR story an NPC mentioned it, I absolutely lost my shit.
I think there was an Extra video part of the documentary where the host is doing a little goofy dance on a side street, and 2 Japanese men see him and then start doing this elaborate choreographed dance routine lol
@@steakdriven regular or Mambo?
I was there through 1.0 til present day, such an amazing transformation.
Yoshi and the team are legends.
"The Final Fantasy we play... I feel like that kind of happened in Stormblood." -- The chat then goes on to correct you, saying "no heavensward." Both of these things are sorta false in this context. Improvements were made to the combat systems in every expansion after ARR, but Heavensward was just a lot of quality of life changes.
What you're referring to... which is the game being fundamentally different... well, let's just say you haven't even seen that yet. When you played ARR, it was left mostly untouched, save for a few quests and the amount of experience earned. You're still playing the 10-year-old version of the game. It was still mostly the same thing. Heavensward, which is pretty damn old as well, is also mostly unchanged.
You won't notice that the game is fundamentally, at its core, veeery different and vastly improved until you reach Stormblood. This is when, in terms of gameplay, the developers turned the dial from 0-100.
ARR was the recovery so not doing too much other than the set up... Heavensward even down to voicing of characters in cut-scenes were focused on from then on.
@@AuroDHikoshi Yeah I feel like ARR is one big prologue/the foundation.
Heavensward was a huge improvement on the story, the way they handled the MSQ & subsequent cutscenes, and the very beginnings of an improvement in overall gameplay. They also made many QoL changes and reimagined a lot of dated systems.
Stormblood gets crapped on a lot, but as someone who cares significantly more about gameplay and combat than story, I feel it was actually an amazing expansion that really solidified what I'd hoped would be the direction of the game. This is when they took those reimagined core gameplay ideas from HSW and really added some depth/substance to them.
Shadowbringers is when all those ideas, the improvements to the MSQ, story, combat... _all_ of the aforementioned substance was utilized to its maximum potential. I literally can't think of one single negative thing to say about ShB, unlike previous expansions.
And finally... Endwalker... while I feel gameplay was given a backseat to the story, which was somewhat disappointing to a player like me... it was still fantastic. Incredible, even... with some mind-blowing gameplay moments. It also makes sense that they'd prioritize the story, as it was the end of the game's first major plot... one that players had been following along with for literally a decade. It was a necessity.
@@sirdamned9272 people talk trash about the pace of ARR and SB, but those expansions are world building expansions. They are slow paced because they prepare the enviroment and the base story for the banger that is following. The story of HW was so good because they prepared it since ARR, same thing is with SB and ShB
It's so crazy watching this after seeing the fan response to Endwalker or even Shadowbringers.
So they never actually say it in the video, but it's kind of implied that there was a great deal of crunch at SE during the development of ARR and Heavensward, which seems odd because crunch tends to actually hurt production and leads to a sub-standard product... unless the people doing the work actually enjoy what they are doing, and are willingly putting in all that extra time and effort. I think that is the fundamental difference between how SE operates compared to companies like Blizzard or Ubisoft. When people work in a hostile environment, they just want to put in their 8 hours and get the hell out, but when they actually enjoy going to work and really care about what they're doing, their passion will drive them to go above and beyond.
Beautifully said
It's also because in Japan unpaid overtime is an unspoken requirement for employees. They are used to being overworked and putting in 10-12 hours. That being said, I think Yoshi-P isn't the kind of boss that wants people to put in crazy overtime and seems to really care about the health and lives of his employees.
I’m a 1.0 and alpha player, these videos being back so many memories. I used to even praise ARR at work when I was a GM at a certain infamous MMO/video game company 😆
I attended the Fanfest in Germany. It was so much fun. I hope they resume in person events soon.
I was watching one of Asmongold’s videos and he was talking about lore in WoW and now that he seen how they went into ARR he fully understands the opening cutscene to a amazing game. 😊
can you imagine being in the room when the dev team first watched the ARR cinematic? It must have been both dead silent and electric.
My FFXIV friends are worldwide and my family. We connect outside the game and support each other with life, not just the game.
As far as development of aspects in ARR to current
ARR told the story it needed to, made the base of the game modern but kept aspects from previous titles and leftovers from 1.0 for familiarity and character carry over, certain special things not being accessible via Duty Finder to keep that sense of it being something special, random hidden things around the world, it still kept these sorts of aspects from 1.x and 11 where you could just stumble onto things but still almost all of them would hold your hand to them enough that you wouldn't accidentally miss much of anything.
HW told the story they wanted to and started building off everything it had opened up over 1.x and 2.0, it solidified the design philosophy started in ARR and then began shifting again in the patch series
SB solidified the changes to combat and content, bringing to what I'd call the base version of the current design philosophy, bringing it almost fully to the 'dance and do damage' style we mainly see now. It started really tying together many of the threads that had been laid out, got us into the shoes of the people of the cultures and not just the big picture story wise, all while propelling itself
ShB is where the new (and current) style of gameplay solidified The story was in full motion, they took everything they learned and engaged old players with the story and world and newer players with the gameplay and QOL that respects their time that has been advancing since ARR.
EW turned everything up to 11 and showed the expertise they'd developed over the years and started re-expanding scopes on what they want to do with things from the various experiments they've done with content over the years testing the waters.
Been regularly playing this game from December. I have to say that i grew more attached to this world and my character in those few months than in about 15y to the WoW ones, to the point that every night i log out in the inn just to see him waking up the next day
Grrat documentary. What Yoshi-P and his team decided to do with FFXIV was almost unheard of back then. I can't exactly blame those who didn't stay around to instead look for other opportunities. That said, I have the utmost respect for those who stayed with him till the end to reach the point where we are today. What they did was nothing short of a miracle.
This is why I have high hopes for FFXVI. If Yoshi-P is once again at the helm of that game's development then I have no doubt that it will live up to the standards that FFXIV has shown us today.
At the release of Endwalker, December 2021, they said something about having 24M accounts. And from the logon issues it was estimated the some 16-20M were trying to login each day.
My high school japanese teacher was in Tokyo during the 2011 earthquake. He got separated from his son for 2 whole days before he found out whether he was alive or not. His son's school was in a multistory building, so they all had to stay in the upper levels for a few days without power or signal, whilst my teacher got stuck inside a mall with his other son for a few days.
This was a great stream... impressed by the company's compassion.
The creativity was amazing and the turn-around time was insane!!! thanks Asmongold ;)
im still unlocking dungeons/raids in previous expansions.. this game has so much content its nuts.
Well and now he is on the board of directors ... leads the whole of SEs online segment being the official head of FF XI as well .. and Producer on FF XVI if while still being both Producer and Director of FF XIV .... if he had to much work then .... :D
Great he finally watched it. Is part 1 anywhere? Thanks.
What yoshi p means is that once a mmo feels like a job/chore it loses that fun factor and the game experience. Something to be able to come back to in my opinion is 100x better then ever feeling like shit I have to log in today and grind for another 6 hours while I can
Literallly happened to me with Lost srk with 1200 h and all alts, fucking job game instead of playing for fun
The mindset of not expecting people to play every second is one that got said in a review of the game that did say it's a place you can return back to and it'll be there and not radically different and pick up where you left off.
FanFests are big energy events with a lot of fun shit to do between panels! i was at the one in 2016 when Stormblood was announced and between the panels talking about game development and showing off all the new stuff coming, it was so much fun. because of covid we got the Around the World version last year before Endwalker where everything was streamed for free, including the concerts, and you could preorder the merch from their site. i can say that the in-person ones had just as much energy as the one online, and i hope you're able to go to one!
I always laugh to myself whenever Asmon says "I wish Blizzard this, I wish WoW that, Lost Ark is great because this..."
Dude's literally going to forget about all of that/realize how needless it is for him to cling to other MMOs when he finishes XIV. I can't even begin to express how much better the game gets... in every single aspect that matters for PvE MMOs... after Stormblood.
Been playing MMORPGs for 20 years, _including_ WoW (7 years), Lost Ark (400 hours), New World, and others. I like the same exact things Asmon likes. I like action, fast-paced combat, cool armor, raiding, cool dungeons, end-game gear progression, and collecting. The more challenging the content, the more I like it (assuming it's well designed). XIV does all of this better than the games he still believes are staples of MMO, and he just hasn't seen it because he's only played 10 year old content lol.
I certainly didn't stop playing WoW and start playing XIV because of roleplay, or because of the "social element," or because I don't care about combat. I could care less about roleplaying or community. Everyone who believes this is the real reason people play it are simply misinformed. FFXIV does everything PvE related better than other MMOs post-Stormblood.
What an obnoxious and shitty thing to say
i'm a ffxiv andy myself , saying it does everything PVE better is very pushing it, they're good on their own but other game can be different and people prefer different things and styles. And if other game does well in the future, it also benefit ffxiv since dev will keep making the game better too.
@@karlongkar exactly, I hate I when people shit on other games or downplay the experiences of others to prop up what they're playing. Asmon likes those other games for the unique thing they do, and there's nothing wrong with that. FFXIV can be great, and so can those other games. Shit people still love OSRS to this day and that game does not hold up graphically.
I mostly agree but I definitely think WoW has the MMO part of the genre down to a T. It's probably the only online game I've ever played which has such rich ways of meeting new people and actually conversing with them, bumping into them again and again through your journey and eventually joining guilds together. The whole thing felt like a journey with actual people. I didn't give a sht about the story but the world and the interactions with real players kept me hooked more than FF ever has and FF is probably my all time favourite gaming franchise.
This was up until WotLK btw so I believe WoW even changed their dungeon finder to make you play more with cross world groups, which hurts the interaction aspect somewhat because you don't get to meet the same players as often. FF has some great features but some of them are double edged swords and hurt the MMO aspect of the game but it cant be avoided.
Unfortunately he didnt make it
This documentary is so awesome, and every MMO RPG player should watch it to appreciate what went into FFXIV and what continues to go into that game. I'm so happy I was a part of the world of Eorzea from 2.0 onward. I don't always sub to FFXIV, but whenever it comes up I say with overwhelming confidence that it is the greatest game ever made. I tip my hat to the Squaresoft era, but this is innovation mixed with passion and love that is unparalleled in our day and age, especially in the MMO RPG genre.
I saw some of chat making jokes about Koji Fox being soft spoken and sweet. This man is one of the voices of the Primals - I invite you to check out their music videos.
Honestly man MMOs in general need more events which players don't know are coming. Like imagine logging in to WoW some day and there's a fucking army of demons marching from Goldshire to the gates of SW. That sort of spontaneous, unscripted interaction between players and devs is what makes some of the best memories in gaming for me. I know if FF14 it was necessitated by the fact 1.0 had to be killed off, but the players who experienced it will be talking about the cataclysm for the rest of their lives.
Thank you for those First Warriors of Light who faced the end of the world and gave me the oppurtunity to start playing a game I love.
Yoshi P is truly inspirational, I love this documentary. As mentioned, I only tried out FF because I was so disappointed with WoD. Never played a final fantasy game before, but saw the trailers of cool characters, dragons and flying. I am just hoping Blizz will drop the 'you must play every day' grind because its so off putting
In Japan, bowing is a sign of respect, the lower you bow the more respect. Notice how low Yoshida-san bowed on stage, and he's the boss. No American game company executive has the balls or humility to ever bow to their customers, the fans.
End of Dragonflight:
Dragon magic used to restore the world, something goes wrong and we go hard reverse. Red dragon power revives some folks, green and bronze rewrite majority of the populations' memories and changes past events, black reshapes the landscape (excuse for art upgrade), and blue resets talent sets and strengths.
We get dumped in essentially a new Azeroth with only a few characters remembering the past as we explore this new world. Garrosh is warchief again
Started FF14 around 2011 and still here 2022 this is more then just a game
It feels like home now :)
@@dreamer6737 it definitely is you meet so many new people and even now it's still receiving new players.
I was there at the end. My character has his legacy tattoo on his neck. Nice little reminder.
That's honestly so cool, love that they implemented that
Definitely going to log on soon again.
I hope we get to see some crazy years for FFXIV. Yoshi-P has been such a great asset and front figure for all of this. Really great human-being.
3:17 So next stream we get Asmon to watch a documentary on ブラック企業 (Burakku Kigyo) because if he thinks Amazon is bad...work culture in Japan is a different beast. Yoshi P is definitely a great guy though.
PS. So he asked about looting, and there are a lot of anecdotal stories to explain why it most likely didn't happen or at least there was very little. One story is about some people who were in a hotel and they decided to have an experiment, they left some money in a readily apparent location over night, and the next day they not only found the money was still there but someone had placed some more money on top of it. Then of course you have the countelss stories of people dropping their wallet and having it returned, or just the general fact that people feel comfortable falling asleep in public as the chances of someone stealing your stuff is very low. Again, there is a criminal element in Japan, it's not as if they are all angels but by en large looting would be a big departure from the way society dictates people should behave in Japan. I should add that Japan has it's own types of crime, and that the Japanese legal system is kinda screwed up I would highly recommend people go watch some documentaries on why their prosecution rate is so high and just a general deep dive on how the system works over there because it's actually kinda scary.
Yoshida represents a really positive change for elements of Japanese culture that desperately needed it.
There's some lost context for yoshida crying on stage. he was crying because he felt like he let the players down because the game oversold, and they had to stop sales and the servers were unstable. I remember watching it the original video or live stream and was like, holy shit, this guy really fucking cares. and i think that's why people really idolizing him, he really does care about this project, and I hope this inspires other devs to do the same
In a way I feel like I want an mmo that makes me want to play more & more & more but at the same time I hate being forced to play more due to daily & weekly chores.
I think it's great of an mmo doesn't force its players to log in every day but I also think they need to have enough optional content to do for the players who do want to play non stop. I feel like FFXIV definitely is definitely on the right track when it comes to that.
Imagine if in WoW, something would happen where a cosmic being arrives at the area and takes Sargeras’ sword. People talk about it, and no one can really prove this claim, because nobody videoed it.
Anytime Asmon is quoting Sam Hyde is PEAK CONTENT. McConnell during Elden Ring saying "Don't you feel SILLY? Don't you feel STUPID? Don't you feel, A LITTLE ASHAMED?" was possibly the greatest moment in all of twitch history.
41:20 Very true. I'm taking my good old time and am still leveling. Stopped playing when I hit lvl 75 and went to play other stuff for two months. And then I felt the urge to go back and continued leveling. I'm lvl 82 now, might even get to lvl 90 this month, and if not, it's next month.
But I also remember playing WoW. And the feeling that if, God forbid, you take a week off, how you had to do this that and such just to catch back up.
Nah, I'll take the game that actually tells me to go play other stuff as well now.
I hope people watching this video now understand why the community is so supportive of the developers. In the current state of the industry it's easy to hate companies and developers by default, but CBU3 and SE have earned the trust of the community by going through hell and back to fix their mistakes.
I'll be honest I quit because of how bad the game was in 1.0, but then my best friend showed me heavensward and I eventually tried it again and it was fun again.
16:40 i love how he closes his eyes every time.
Imagine Asmons Eyebrow Game and his Eye Game combined
thats the whole point, there _was_ one guy who could one shot the goobue but he was too busy trying to land some poon to notice, which haunted him for years to come. "If I wasnt such a poonhound, this little girl would still have a father." - Random Hyur
Use Josh. God put him in your path right at the moment Cruz announced interest in speaking to the King of Geeks about the toxic practices of the gaming industry. Use Josh, if not to appear. At least to prepare. His wordsmith level is really high. His Brit races gives him an automatic +2 over American class.
Thanks for the upload, I hope Asmon gets another chance to talk with yoshiP
YoshiP: lets design the game so that people who are busy IRL don't feel left behind
Other gaming companies: Pay for progress baby!!
People keep telling me that erasing the current WoW and starting over the game is impossible and idk why tbh. All your current achievements and characters wouldn't be gone. They would still exist in this new version of the game.
Now the game is the most profitable game of SQE. No wonder why Yoshi-P got promoted.
2 years ago or so 3 dams broke and flooded some of the smaller towns around it completely swallowing them up and we lost 2 or 3 lakes because they kept refusing to repair the dam like 2 towns away from me :(. It was tragic.
This was such a great watch! It'd be cool to see Asmon react to more No Clip docs!
I was at Yokota when the earthquake hit. Hopped on a plan to Yamagata AB 51 miles from Fukashima for relief mission for a month. Last thing I heard before getting on the plane an hour later was the reactor was melting down and had a 50 mile kill radius. lol good times.
In awe that people will still sit in stream chat and shit on ff
this reminds me of my aunt's stories of the 1946 30 foot tsunami that hit her town in Hilo Big Island Hawaii. Tsunami is our greatest concern here in the islands more than any other natural disaster simply because even though we can estimate when it will arrive and how large it may be even with buoys, the ocean plays its own cards. we wont know the true scale and power of the tsunami until it hits. Unlike other natural disasters that can occur here and have a set pattern such as hurricanes and volcano eruptions, Tsunami does not. our most recent tsunami was posited to be half a foot feet and course in to about a quarter mile from shore, when it hit, was the surge was 5 feet and crippled our industrial zone about a mile inland. the surge left kakaako 2 feet under water for about a month more so because that neighborhood is already below sea level. :/
I just started playing this week and was SHOCKED to hit a login queue literally every time I log on. It's a short one and doesn't bug me much but it caught me off guard.
55:25 - I love that if we consider the timing of these interviews, Yoshida was probably neck deep in concepts for Shadowbringers when he said this.
'I think we can do even better. And I'm about to prove it to literally fucking everyone'.
King.
I'm a legacy player and I love what thay did for us. plus forever at cheeper monthly payment 😊
at 29:00, the healer forgot their jobstone
some things never change
Nice formula: Server Size at lauch = Expectations * 2.5
2013 was the pinnacle of MMORPG gaming for me, I came back expecting a terrible game only to spend the next year without a single break playing daily with my Black Mage, I remember getting my relic weapon after beating the primals on hard mode. Ah good times :)
great video as always zack i cant wait for final fantasy xvi to release next year
I was hoping for another Cataclysm after I saw that "leak" of the cutscene that I think Tali talked about on his show - the screenshot of a shadowy version of Stormwind had him convinced we were all going to die or something. Asmon was also hoping for N'zoth to actually kill us, and that would make sense considering the strange friendship is magic rainbow beam ending we got - it was all a dream! As Asmon theorized, I wonder if Blizzard did indeed have plans for it. Maybe they thought it was too much of a risk, but I think the reset is needed at this point.
active subs are higher than active players due to housing. i had an active sub for 2yrs while i was playing other games so i wouldn't lose my house. been playing since patch 2.3
I was there for 1.0 years ago, with huge breaks, the game was baaad, but after 2.0, after seeing what they did and how much they care, that's what kept me coming back and I'm still here with no plans of leaving. I just fucking wish they did an overhaul on the website, the website is terrible, too confusing, too many buttons to get to the place you need to go.
Lost my 1.0 account to the 2 step authenticator and after so many years they've not replied to that report... that was sad. Things lately have been getting better for the web part, but there's still a lot to improve.
I dont agree what he said about NFT's, but making decission to fund complete restart of the game was bold. Even with some damage control, player count wasnt that high and it could blow if 2.0 wasnt good enough to bring lots of new players. Giving trust to Yoshi P and his team to develop something way, way better, was big deal.
I think nobody in Square expected how well it turns out.
Good for them, good for us. We will see what future brings.
I started playing ARR not too long after its launch but I got bored with the fates and fetch quests so I took a very long pause. Coupled with some hardware issues I eventually saw the Shadowbringers trailer and I was back baby!
That trailer was immense and had me so hyped to return to the game. I hadn't even done Heavensward lol. Has Asmon done a reaction to the trailer yet?
Exactly how I play wow now: Start of the expansion for a few months then I wait 2 years until the last month or two to do the stuff I missed out on.
Such a good documentary, holy shit.
54:50 And this is why this man leads FF16 development.
At the end about it being draining you can tell look at yoshi-p in the no clip vs how he looked during end walker. The dude has aged a lot. He looks far older then what he actually is.
The first game I experienced this sort of ending on was the Beta of Ultima Online where for the beta-end the world ended. Monsters spawning. GMs chose players and gave them god-like powers. It was amazing fun. I believe that the UO beta was the first time this sort of event was held online in an MMO. I don't recall The Realm having similar events from beta through release. But that was a long time ago and I can't really recall clearly...
AND, in case this was lost to anyone, all of this is BEFORE Shadowbringers. The expansion that, (at least for me), pretty much redefined what is storytelling in videogames.
11:40 *Bungie:* "No, no, no, no. _The Almighty_ getting bigger and bigger over time before hitting Earth in _Destiny 2_ *in 2020* was totally our own, unique invention!" 🙄 (And it _didn't_ even cause an Extinction Level Event, which would like, _totally_ have happened, whether the ship was in one piece or not 🤦♂.)
Glad you finally watched this. I played this in 2014 and left. Came back in 2019 and realized I wasn't in the same space. I had to find out what happened and this doc gave me the answers.
FF15 was fine, but not good. It had some serious problems related to gross mismanagement, the fact that the game got stuck in development hell due to the Fabula Nova Crystalis thing, and then being forced to redo a significant portion to the game to the point that even now, with development ended on the game, it's quite literally only half-done. What's there is great if you ask me, but you can see where things were cut out just by playing through the game and paying attention.
Think about blizzard would do such a thing with WoW, basicaly working at a new WoW2 while ending the story of WoW. Then they would one day close down WoW and everyone having a char on WoW would get WoW2 with a discount and would get his/her char transported into WoW2 where it would start a new adventure in new graphic and new world.
Did I see it? I was there riding the Hikari 151 from Hiroshima to Tokyo. Horrible tragedy.
I wish I had a girlfriend who had the communication skills and earned the trust the XIV team has with me
Bikes on Ulduar/timewalking are still bugged (2022- june)
I wish i stuck with 1.0, but i was confused on what to do. Still though i wosh i would stuck it out.
Best comment: Blizzard dropping the ball turned WoW players into MMO players... I would even say it turned them into Gamers again.
I've not only stopped playing WoW and started playing other MMOs like FFIVX & Lost Ark, but also 4x Strategy Ganes like Civ6 and Crusader Kings, and I've tried several other random games on Steam.
After stopping WoW, I've gotten to remember all the reasons I've played video games since my first Atari 2600 and Commodore, then my Sega, Nintendo, Playstation, Xbox... my first PC games.
I'm back to being a gamer now!
Just finished the first video, great timing