Keeping this secret was difficult XD - We were given the rare opportunity to sit down with Naoki Yoshida himself and talk all things FF14 and where the game is going. both Mike and Yoshi P had a great time so I hope you enjoy as well. Also, we did only have access to 2 LAV mics for the interview so some of the sound is a bit wonky but I've done what I can to make it decent to listen to.
@@melissas4874 Most of the media tours involve a few exclusive interviews - it just means there's only one person doing the interview as opposed to the group sessions or open sessions at other points. You can see there's nobody else here asking questions or recording except preach - that makes it an exclusive.
Having you involved in the XIV community has been great. Your love of games has been on full display since branching out from Blizzard stuff and it's refreshing.
@@waltwhite81262 other reasons for the English to Japanese translation: To help the Japanese audience, and to allow Yoshi P time to think about the question while it is being translated.
@@waltwhite8126 All of this. Yoshi P can actually speak very good English but there was a live letter that came out a few years ago (during shadowbringers) where he said he wasn't confident with it so he hardly speaks it. He can understand a lot of it, judging by his reactions when people ask him things.
21:27: "A lot of the poeple who haven't played FF14 before, they typically associate FF14 with having an anime style and for them it comes across as childish and they feel that they won't like it" CALLED. OUT. LMAO.
The thing that always gets me about that: Have people SEEN other MMOs? WoW's graphics are literally cartoonish. So were Wildstar's. Runescape's were made in the early Java era and may have been hand drawn. Like, outside of maybe Rift or Elder Scrolls, what are these people looking at that isn't either cartoony, anime-esque, or both?
@@SubduedRadical Probably because those are western developers and anything that doesn't conform to that perspective is weird, or childish. I would wager that it's a mixture of culture shock and potentially some layer of xenophobia.
@@Hawkenwhacker Nah, I'm more saying I don't think that's as much of a reason as people give it credit for. I think it's more people looking for excuses. Some people get very strong MMO brand loyalty and so will be dismissive of anything else for the stupidest made up reasons possible. Because they aren't being dismissive for that reason. They decided to just be dismissive and are latching onto any reason they can find after the fact to justify their pre-decision.
I am so, so happy that Naoki Yoshida is the one handling FFXIV and that SE is keeping him at the helm, because oh my god is he ever so damn good at what he does !
He did some great things, especially in regards to 1.0 to 2.0 but the current battle system is very boring and uninspired. And FFXVI was an overall disappointment to me. Still have a lot of respect for YP. It can't be easy. 💛
I hope he keeps well and healthy because this man is probably one of the few people in the games industry i feel like actually fully understand a variety of games and why they should be the way they are.
@@TheOneGreat FFXVI was a success to me and my GOTY 2023 despite some massive flaws. I put in 200+ hours in it. First of all, the game has the best character graphical quality in gaming ever, besides FF7 rebirth. It also arguably has the best voice acting in a game ever. For those two points alone, and creating an incredible cinematic experience, I give the game an 8/10. Yes the combat was mid and the world/questing as well. But they can only improve on that. Also, something to keep in mind is that FF franchise was doing terrible with FF13/FF15 and in comparison FF16 is a solid improvement over those games and put the franchise back on track. So overall, Yoshida did the impossible. Put FF back on the map. Yes it's not a deep RPG. But it put Square Enix on track to make a great FF17.
@@Bahamut998 See, you said it looks and sounds nice so it's amazing. I'm playing a game, not watching a movie. Gameplay is a distant first and that aspect was boring. Not to mention the lifeless overworld and the bafflingly bad side quests. Rebirth is great, though, I agree.
Thank you Preach for always asking for chat bubbles, i have wanted this in the game since the start, being a huge FF fan its one of the things i wanted most in game lol
@@Ryotsu2112 I imagine the difference is a matter of consent. NPCs are automatically consenting to their chat being seen by players. Players aren't automatically consenting to their chat being seen by other players.
@@DameonStarflame But... it already is seen by other players if they speak in public channels? if I say something in /say everyone within certain range that is not blocked by me can see it already. Chat bubbles achieve the same thing. Presumably /tell won't have them like it doesn't in wow etc.
I greatly appreciate the translators being left in as well, I usually catch these when I'm at work so it's nice to be able to just listen to them without having to check subs!
"Chat Bubbles CONFIRMED!" FINALLY! I was legit in the closed Beta for this game and one of the pieces of feedback I tried to tell the dev team was to include chat bubbles and WHY for RP/social reasons. I created a whole forum post about it back then. A bunch of random people came in and shut me down saying it wouldn't improve the social aspect and not everything should borrow from WoW. To this day I still sit in SW or in front of Goldshire and chat people up. Chat bubbles will ALWAYS feel more personal than the chat box. I also suggested they be an option to toggle off and on for players who don't want it. But here I am like 10 years later and the thing I said to have from the beginning finally happens! This is soooo cool. Now walking up to people they will know you are talking to them even easier!
@@numberc8420 there's a certain vibe that the FF14 community is often faulty of, is that the game is free of serious oversights or flaws, even when the developers don't benefit from the overly positive feedback. It's almost like players are traumatised that if they don't practice toxic positivity regarding FF14, their toy will be taken away. Which is patently false, especially with the negative community feedback being the main reason the game survived past Alexander Gordias/Midas
@@taggertrose6952 they never said when but for now you will have to settle for third party plugins, in that case you need XIVlauncher and Dalamud. Technically they are against ToS but it's a don't ask don't tell kind of thing and as Preach mentioned in the past, they don't seem to care for minor things like chat bubbles.
I am a wow Andy for gameplay, but am intrigued by what FF14 is as an RPG and how this game can impact my own. Thank you YohsiP for your time and Mike for the good conversation.
In my experience from playing both this is spot on. I play wow when I want some good mmo gameplay and/or am watching tv. I play ffxiv when I’m in the mood for more focused story while questing or just goofing around with other players in the world/housing/gold saucer, etc. it would be cool to see both continue to improve the areas the other excels at but I also enjoy just being able to decide which one to play based on my mood and what I’m after at the time
I think more than just MMOs but a lot of RPGs could stand to learn what FFXIV does to make the story and characters so compelling. I do not cry for video games, but o have been brought to tears multiple times by this one. Evoking such strong emotion is what any media wants to achieve.
Fascinating that they prioritize the time it takes to complete a dungeon rather than the content in itself. Which probably is why I never feel too taxed to complete one in a roulette. That said, with how simple the dungeons can be, they are seeking other ways to give more complicated, longer dungeons via the other systems, I wonder what they will come up with
"Mechanics are for cars." Despite it being a meme, it can be said it's helped form the way people approach the game. I've been in groups where people completely ignore them, and then we wipe and the group doesn't know how or doesn't care to learn from it. The player base is just as responsible. It's a symbiotic relationship after all.
Great Interview, really great questions and really great and direct answers! I'm so relieved to see a developer whose answers are not only "We will see" or "We dont know yet" without any other perspective given. Yoshi-P is just one of THE greats in the MMO industry and with every each interview, rightfully so! :)
@@Honzaj Tyjo fakt joo? Tak to jsem vůbec nevěděl! Jsem si to myslel na základě youtube žejo :D Hraješ na Chaosu? :) btw, na chaosu jsem díky tvému videu, protože jsi říkal, že tam hraje nejvíc čechů :D
as soon as I heard Yoshi P say "world of warcraft" I knew shit was about to go hard, and he really did know Preach. This interview is FIRE. Blizz could frankly never lmao. Well done Preach!
@@therabbits69 hell yoship has always stated that wow and ff14 are both equally good games. The tribalism that has seperated the ex wow ff14 players is so stupid, both do different things better or worse but both are made better by the other existing and pushing new ideas, both teams talk to each and play each others game and strive the best mmos they can.
I would love to see a Boss Rush dungeon or trial/raid. No trash inbetween, just one boss after another. Not Ultimate level difficulty, but you know, one normal version and one extreme. That'd be interesting.
So like Cuff of the Son Alexander raid? That's just 4 lil boss fights back to back with no trash in between- the normal version has some trash at the very start but that's the only trash mobs- savage doesn't have any of the trash mobs I believe. Would be interesting to see more non-ultimate fights be structured like that again but I think the durability of the average player wouldn't be as agreeable haha.
Then we need dungeons where it's largely JUST trash but the trash is more impactful, similar to criterion but not to the same degree. I'd love to see just vast variety of how different dungeons COULD work.
I am smiling so much. I am soooo glad you got into the game and subsequently into the media tour preach! I know you had a hard year and I did as well. So seeing this whole video so far during my work, I am smiling so hard. Big ❤ from me Mike. May the rat bless us all. Best, Molotov
Man, I would've loved for you two to talk longer. Someday it will happen. Maybe even out of media tour season and you can have each other for the whole day.
Love interviews like this. They're always so different and interesting from the usual developer interviews that people usually have. I loved both this one and the Blzzard one you did previously. Keep it up.
For anyone like me that doesn't want to see gameplay for Dawntrail to go in as blind as possible, go audio only at 13:04 - 18:04 and 33:56 - 37:13! Great interview though, also you're looking very good Preach! If you've been looking after your health lately it shows. :D
Yaaaay! I'm so happy you got to sit down, legend to legend! Can't wait for chat bubbles, and I hope one day to be there in "person" for one of chats amazing plays!
The deep and insightful answers is quite refreshing. I'm too used to useless fluff like "we are listening, we are working on it". I want to know why its not possible. The in-depth philosophy to some design changes and why the obvious solutions isn't so simple for the devs.
This is supper exciting to see happen... I love all your talks with all different developers you have a very unique and way of asking question that I find very entertaining to watch keep up the great work Preach.
I'm glad that you left it edited like this because this felt more like an actual conversation than simply a straightforward question and answer segment. I'm sure other people will whittle this down to simply the questions and answers for brevity but for me part of the joy and entertainment of seeing content like this is the actual conversation itself as you get to see how people accept the information being presented to them in real time along with whatever emotions come along with it.
This was a fantastic chat. Yoshi-P is always really interesting to talk to and Mike has been a real gem of an addition to the community since he started XIV. Really good to hear you specifically bringing up thinking you wouldn't like the game and how it's won you over; it's clear Yoshida sees this and recognizes the value of your approach to MMOs in general. After all, he's as much a fan as he is a dev.
So happy you got to have a sit down wish the man himself. Out of all the people i know with a more broad MMO perspective you’re definitely the one that deserved this the most.
This is such a wonderful interview, just an honest conversation about video games and the people who play them. These two men are international treasures.
I really hope they stick to that ideal of not abandoning mechanic ideas in favor of safer ones (limit cut, buddy stacks, etc). Nothing drags at this game quite like playing tier after tier that makes me wonder why we haven't had any more fights as compelling to progress as Titan Savage was. I love cool shit like Uplift and I really don't want them to abandon them just because people get upset at losing uptime or the boss going invincible or whatever else. There's cool ideas that deserve to see more play in this game so the raids are fresh, not just difficult.
Cannot believe the dude who I used to watch mess around recording a webshow about the game I loved back then, on his couch with a mate, is now sitting across a couch from Yoshi-P talking about the game I love now.
I love this. The man who got to have my most favorite interviews with Ion Hazzikostas also scored an interview with the great Yoshi-P himself? Hot. Damn.
This was a great interview. The chemistry was great. The questions that were asked were well thought out and delivered nicely and the part where you got Yoshi P to laugh at the "lala's being used as a raid marker" really brought it home for me. It was obvious that there was mutual respect. Great interview.
Bro got a dinner invitation from Yoshi P to discuss more game stuff sometime. That's amazing! You know he really values Preach's input on things, and it's easy to see why. Keep up the good work bro. This was a great interview with some great insights.
12:57 In another interview I saw, he spoke about how when he first started working on FFXIV back in 1.0, there was a case where White Mage could cast Cure 3 basically as much as they wanted without fear of running out of MP. Of course, this meant that all the other healing spells were rendered moot and there was never a reason to cast anything else. It was just bad game balance, so he implemented changes to make it so they would run out of MP if they just spammed their most powerful healing ability. However, this led to backlash from the players who now felt stressed, because now they had to actually consider their resources and what spells to use when. He said it was something that surprised him, but it was also a valuable learning experience. From then on, whenever they make a mistake, they always try to correct it ASAP and give an explanation to the players *why* the change is necessary, so that people don't get accustomed to a broken mechanic. But he also believes that small adjustments on a larger scale will allow people to enjoy the game and slowly be ushered towards a new direction, rather than suddenly changing direction all at once, which can be disorienting and lead to people not enjoying the game. It's a very interesting design philosophy. Of course, if the adjustments are too small, it can make people feel like the game is stagnating or not really going anywhere, so it's a balancing act.
The next time you go to meet yoshi-p you should bring whiteboard cutouts in the shape of chat bubbles for you two to write messages to each other on lmfao
I'm glad the team is going to keep dungeon design as is.. People asking for more from basic dungeons aren't considering the role these dungeons play in our progression. For those of us playing actively during an expansion, capping tomestones, gearing, etc, it is really nice to have our dungeons be more formulaic, because we're doing them every day. We can be surprised in other ways with specific content catered to the audience who wants more, like with variant/criterion.
@@xalmor6044 They want them over with ASAP since they're doing them every day. These aren't the things that get them exited, so in and out, quick and done. There are other things in the game they go to for engagement.
Such a fantastic interview!! I'm so thankful that you decided to try 14, otherwise we'd have never gotten to see this! Also I would take a punch to the head to protect Yoshi P. What a beacon of light in the gaming community, love that dude!
I still think in general for dungeon design, i like the idea of just having all dungeon corridors being open similar to dungeons like mt gulg where you can freely pull corridor to corridor if you so please or you can do wall to wall. even just that at least imo would be a massive dungeon design thing that might be simple enough to do?
Thanks for a great interview and always a pleasure to see Yoshi-P discussing philosophy and approach rather than just specific details (which while great, but are easily found through playing/live letters/resources)
You're so much better at this whole sort of interview thing than I am. When you ask the question, by the time it's translated to Yoshida, he answers, and it's translated back, I have forgotten what the original question is!
Mike I am THRILLED that you had this opportunity and even more so that you chose to share it with all of us. I had goosebumps from excitement from start to finish. Thank you for all that you and your team do to connect with us! Cheers!
pso2 can be a fine example of using chat bubbles. but if the dev were frustrated and reluctant to have the option there is an idea for the player wanted to see the chat bubbles and the others who don't. Try go with an option to enable and disable the bubble chat. I too, really curious to have an option having a bubble chat so we can know who the hell is talking to us, wait... somehow bubble chat can also make us know who's the one saying it, despite us disable the name of the character display on players head?
21:35 I love the look Yoshi-P is giving Preach as his words were being translated. I can't imagine who he was referring to with this comment haha. This was a great interview, and I think Preach going from "stupid weeb gane" (unironically) to "stupid weeb game" (after Seto scene) to this interview has been an awesome journey!
The thing I love about this, and Mike even says it, for the longest time Mike was always instant NOPE to FFXIV, and now here he is, ranking it multiple times as his favorite video game story, talking to the man himself, I said it in chat when you showed it off live but just in case you see it here, but massive congrats Mike!
Keeping this secret was difficult XD - We were given the rare opportunity to sit down with Naoki Yoshida himself and talk all things FF14 and where the game is going. both Mike and Yoshi P had a great time so I hope you enjoy as well.
Also, we did only have access to 2 LAV mics for the interview so some of the sound is a bit wonky but I've done what I can to make it decent to listen to.
Do hope you did get to go out for some wine :D
So this wasn't part of the media tour? Saying it was "exclusive" makes it sound like it was outside of media tour.
@@melissas4874 Most of the media tours involve a few exclusive interviews - it just means there's only one person doing the interview as opposed to the group sessions or open sessions at other points. You can see there's nobody else here asking questions or recording except preach - that makes it an exclusive.
Honestly, didn't notice anything weird with the sound.
how the hell did not the ginger incident not come to the dialogue?:D
Yoshi-p: I'm sure you must be tired.
Preach: Not at all, I'm here to make you approve chat bubbles.
waiting for the crawlers heavensward play with the chat bubbles!
Anyone know where I can find the ARR one?
@@Magnarmis If you search for "Preach's FC Stage Play!: Floor Inspector- A Realm Remembered" you can easily find it. Please look forward to it! 😂
@@Magnarmis it’s on The Daily Preach channel, “Floor Inspector- A Realm Remembered”
@@ayeoh10 thanks a lot! I watched it on release but was struggling to find it to send it to a friend.
Having you involved in the XIV community has been great. Your love of games has been on full display since branching out from Blizzard stuff and it's refreshing.
I love how the last part didn't even need to be translated.
The moment "chat bubbles" was said, Yoshida already knew.
Beautiful.
I think yoshi-p can understand english pretty well, but the translator is there to ensure the question is 100% correctly understood.
@@waltwhite81262 other reasons for the English to Japanese translation: To help the Japanese audience, and to allow Yoshi P time to think about the question while it is being translated.
@@waltwhite8126 that may be true, he does seem to be responding to the question before it's translated.
@@waltwhite8126 All of this. Yoshi P can actually speak very good English but there was a live letter that came out a few years ago (during shadowbringers) where he said he wasn't confident with it so he hardly speaks it. He can understand a lot of it, judging by his reactions when people ask him things.
He can speak English, the translator is there for the japanese audience who can't speak it.
21:27: "A lot of the poeple who haven't played FF14 before, they typically associate FF14 with having an anime style and for them it comes across as childish and they feel that they won't like it"
CALLED. OUT. LMAO.
The thing that always gets me about that: Have people SEEN other MMOs? WoW's graphics are literally cartoonish. So were Wildstar's. Runescape's were made in the early Java era and may have been hand drawn. Like, outside of maybe Rift or Elder Scrolls, what are these people looking at that isn't either cartoony, anime-esque, or both?
@@SubduedRadical Probably because those are western developers and anything that doesn't conform to that perspective is weird, or childish. I would wager that it's a mixture of culture shock and potentially some layer of xenophobia.
@@Hawkenwhacker Nah, I'm more saying I don't think that's as much of a reason as people give it credit for. I think it's more people looking for excuses. Some people get very strong MMO brand loyalty and so will be dismissive of anything else for the stupidest made up reasons possible. Because they aren't being dismissive for that reason. They decided to just be dismissive and are latching onto any reason they can find after the fact to justify their pre-decision.
I was watching Yoshi-P's face when Preach realised he was getting called out. He knew exactly what he was doing.
プリチーさんほんとにありがとうございます!🎉🎉❤
Yoshi-P definitely wanting to talk off camera and off the record. lol
I am so, so happy that Naoki Yoshida is the one handling FFXIV and that SE is keeping him at the helm, because oh my god is he ever so damn good at what he does !
Yeah, he's incredible. He also organised the team of FFXVI extremely well.
He did some great things, especially in regards to 1.0 to 2.0 but the current battle system is very boring and uninspired. And FFXVI was an overall disappointment to me. Still have a lot of respect for YP. It can't be easy. 💛
I hope he keeps well and healthy because this man is probably one of the few people in the games industry i feel like actually fully understand a variety of games and why they should be the way they are.
@@TheOneGreat FFXVI was a success to me and my GOTY 2023 despite some massive flaws. I put in 200+ hours in it. First of all, the game has the best character graphical quality in gaming ever, besides FF7 rebirth. It also arguably has the best voice acting in a game ever. For those two points alone, and creating an incredible cinematic experience, I give the game an 8/10. Yes the combat was mid and the world/questing as well. But they can only improve on that. Also, something to keep in mind is that FF franchise was doing terrible with FF13/FF15 and in comparison FF16 is a solid improvement over those games and put the franchise back on track. So overall, Yoshida did the impossible. Put FF back on the map. Yes it's not a deep RPG. But it put Square Enix on track to make a great FF17.
@@Bahamut998 See, you said it looks and sounds nice so it's amazing. I'm playing a game, not watching a movie. Gameplay is a distant first and that aspect was boring. Not to mention the lifeless overworld and the bafflingly bad side quests. Rebirth is great, though, I agree.
I can´t believe Yoshi P. would kidnap you for an Interview. Nice to see that you kept your cool
Must've been a traumatic experience but in light of this oppotunity its natural to lose some feathers ^.^
Thank you Preach for always asking for chat bubbles, i have wanted this in the game since the start, being a huge FF fan its one of the things i wanted most in game lol
The weird thing is it has kind of always been in the game. The damn NPCs have no issues using them all over the place!
@@Ryotsu2112”Thal’s Balls everywhere”
@@Ryotsu2112 I imagine the difference is a matter of consent. NPCs are automatically consenting to their chat being seen by players. Players aren't automatically consenting to their chat being seen by other players.
@@DameonStarflame But... it already is seen by other players if they speak in public channels? if I say something in /say everyone within certain range that is not blocked by me can see it already. Chat bubbles achieve the same thing. Presumably /tell won't have them like it doesn't in wow etc.
@@DameonStarflame What the fuck? Consent? Touch some grass
I'm so glad Preach got an interview. He has a lot of experience interviewing game designers, and it shows
I greatly appreciate the translators being left in as well, I usually catch these when I'm at work so it's nice to be able to just listen to them without having to check subs!
yeah i was also very appreciative of that being left in
This is the biggest win I've seen all year congrats man
"Chat Bubbles CONFIRMED!"
FINALLY! I was legit in the closed Beta for this game and one of the pieces of feedback I tried to tell the dev team was to include chat bubbles and WHY for RP/social reasons. I created a whole forum post about it back then. A bunch of random people came in and shut me down saying it wouldn't improve the social aspect and not everything should borrow from WoW.
To this day I still sit in SW or in front of Goldshire and chat people up. Chat bubbles will ALWAYS feel more personal than the chat box. I also suggested they be an option to toggle off and on for players who don't want it. But here I am like 10 years later and the thing I said to have from the beginning finally happens! This is soooo cool. Now walking up to people they will know you are talking to them even easier!
I don't know why this game gets so many contrarians. There were people who didn't want jumping back in ARR.
@@numberc8420 wild lmao
@@numberc8420 there's a certain vibe that the FF14 community is often faulty of, is that the game is free of serious oversights or flaws, even when the developers don't benefit from the overly positive feedback.
It's almost like players are traumatised that if they don't practice toxic positivity regarding FF14, their toy will be taken away. Which is patently false, especially with the negative community feedback being the main reason the game survived past Alexander Gordias/Midas
I'm new to the game, how long will I have to wait for chat bubbles?
@@taggertrose6952 they never said when but for now you will have to settle for third party plugins, in that case you need XIVlauncher and Dalamud. Technically they are against ToS but it's a don't ask don't tell kind of thing and as Preach mentioned in the past, they don't seem to care for minor things like chat bubbles.
I watched 46 minutes to hear the confirmation of an attempt at chat bubbles test. 100% worth it.
hundred percent, mike's learning japanese before the dinner party
Yoship knows English he is just not confident in it
@@seiverdamross I need more yoshi p broken english
@@seiverdamrossFoxclonn does exceptionally well in what English he provides
koenichiwaa hesushiboori dontno joshib-sama 😂
His transformation is not a weeb will be complete
I am a wow Andy for gameplay, but am intrigued by what FF14 is as an RPG and how this game can impact my own. Thank you YohsiP for your time and Mike for the good conversation.
XIV ain't affecting WoW. Blizzard would need to listen first 😂
@@itsspookie Lets have both games do what they want and then enjoy 2 mmos
In my experience from playing both this is spot on. I play wow when I want some good mmo gameplay and/or am watching tv. I play ffxiv when I’m in the mood for more focused story while questing or just goofing around with other players in the world/housing/gold saucer, etc.
it would be cool to see both continue to improve the areas the other excels at but I also enjoy just being able to decide which one to play based on my mood and what I’m after at the time
Wish i have the time to play more than 1 MMO, its great both games exist for everyone!
I think more than just MMOs but a lot of RPGs could stand to learn what FFXIV does to make the story and characters so compelling. I do not cry for video games, but o have been brought to tears multiple times by this one. Evoking such strong emotion is what any media wants to achieve.
Fascinating that they prioritize the time it takes to complete a dungeon rather than the content in itself. Which probably is why I never feel too taxed to complete one in a roulette. That said, with how simple the dungeons can be, they are seeking other ways to give more complicated, longer dungeons via the other systems, I wonder what they will come up with
Also interesting that they target 30 minutes.
Which is about how long it takes to do with Duty Support.
Explains a lot tbh...
"Mechanics are for cars."
Despite it being a meme, it can be said it's helped form the way people approach the game. I've been in groups where people completely ignore them, and then we wipe and the group doesn't know how or doesn't care to learn from it. The player base is just as responsible. It's a symbiotic relationship after all.
Lol when the Chatbouble Video is longer then the Mediatour Video 😆
more important obviously
very cool leaving both translators in; massive w for accessibility 🔥
Mike/Preach, your hard work and dedication made this interview happen. Thank you man!
Yoshi-P for PreachCon 2024 confirmed EZ
Great Interview, really great questions and really great and direct answers! I'm so relieved to see a developer whose answers are not only "We will see" or "We dont know yet" without any other perspective given. Yoshi-P is just one of THE greats in the MMO industry and with every each interview, rightfully so! :)
All mmos give their perspective and reasoning btw. Maybe it's just not what you want to hear
Wow, tak tebe jsem tady nečekal tyjo :D Mám radost, že máš zájem o FF14, ačkoli 95% času trávíš ve WOWku :D
@@MysticTheLxrd já právě hraju WoWko jen na streamech, jinak hraju FFko :D
@@Honzaj Tyjo fakt joo? Tak to jsem vůbec nevěděl! Jsem si to myslel na základě youtube žejo :D Hraješ na Chaosu? :) btw, na chaosu jsem díky tvému videu, protože jsi říkal, že tam hraje nejvíc čechů :D
So glad you got to go to the media tour and had such elite access to Joshi-P. :) You're insight is always appreciated, so happy to see these videos!
Congrats to the team! THIS is the content I love to see and I am excited to see how far you can go!
Chat bubbles confirmed!!
as soon as I heard Yoshi P say "world of warcraft" I knew shit was about to go hard, and he really did know Preach. This interview is FIRE. Blizz could frankly never lmao. Well done Preach!
Yoshi P has always and I mean always loved World of Warcraft.
@@therabbits69 hell yoship has always stated that wow and ff14 are both equally good games. The tribalism that has seperated the ex wow ff14 players is so stupid, both do different things better or worse but both are made better by the other existing and pushing new ideas, both teams talk to each and play each others game and strive the best mmos they can.
@@fynale2049 It's the same sort of tribalism that goes into the Apple vs Android debate. I love both games equally, for myriad reasons.
I would love to see a Boss Rush dungeon or trial/raid. No trash inbetween, just one boss after another. Not Ultimate level difficulty, but you know, one normal version and one extreme. That'd be interesting.
You'd like Bozja
@@Hawkbreath36 I've already 100%-ed Bozja
Reminds me of A6s
So like Cuff of the Son Alexander raid? That's just 4 lil boss fights back to back with no trash in between- the normal version has some trash at the very start but that's the only trash mobs- savage doesn't have any of the trash mobs I believe. Would be interesting to see more non-ultimate fights be structured like that again but I think the durability of the average player wouldn't be as agreeable haha.
Then we need dungeons where it's largely JUST trash but the trash is more impactful, similar to criterion but not to the same degree. I'd love to see just vast variety of how different dungeons COULD work.
I am smiling so much. I am soooo glad you got into the game and subsequently into the media tour preach! I know you had a hard year and I did as well. So seeing this whole video so far during my work, I am smiling so hard. Big ❤ from me Mike.
May the rat bless us all.
Best, Molotov
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So cool you got to interview Preach. I have really enjoyed your XIV content along with all the other FFs. You deserve it.
i am another person who has been waiting for Preach to get to speak with Yoshi P since he started his FF journey too! Love the interview!
Best Yoshida interview I seen by far in all these years. I hope you guys get to chat eventually more in depth.
Man, I would've loved for you two to talk longer. Someday it will happen. Maybe even out of media tour season and you can have each other for the whole day.
Love interviews like this. They're always so different and interesting from the usual developer interviews that people usually have. I loved both this one and the Blzzard one you did previously. Keep it up.
Fantastic interview Preach, glad that you and your team are a part of this community 👍
The only thing keeping Preach from totally chillin with his bff is learning Japanese
For anyone like me that doesn't want to see gameplay for Dawntrail to go in as blind as possible, go audio only at 13:04 - 18:04 and 33:56 - 37:13!
Great interview though, also you're looking very good Preach! If you've been looking after your health lately it shows. :D
Ty!!
Yoshi-P drip unreal as always
Amazing interview, you both got along really well and 100% take him up on the offer for dinner, wine and chatting more about FFXIV! Well done!
CHAT BUBBLES LET'S GOOOOO!!!
Yaaaay! I'm so happy you got to sit down, legend to legend! Can't wait for chat bubbles, and I hope one day to be there in "person" for one of chats amazing plays!
That’s awesome! Happy you got to interview him.
The deep and insightful answers is quite refreshing. I'm too used to useless fluff like "we are listening, we are working on it". I want to know why its not possible. The in-depth philosophy to some design changes and why the obvious solutions isn't so simple for the devs.
Time and resource management is Yoshi's real skillset
This is supper exciting to see happen... I love all your talks with all different developers you have a very unique and way of asking question that I find very entertaining to watch keep up the great work Preach.
Just finished the video YESSSS!!!!! CHAT BUBBLES ARE A REAL THING THAT IS HAPPENING
I'm glad that you left it edited like this because this felt more like an actual conversation than simply a straightforward question and answer segment. I'm sure other people will whittle this down to simply the questions and answers for brevity but for me part of the joy and entertainment of seeing content like this is the actual conversation itself as you get to see how people accept the information being presented to them in real time along with whatever emotions come along with it.
Thank you! Brought a huge smile to my face! I just finished base Endwalker and saw this notification... perfection..
Juuust finished watching Jesse Cox and JP speak with Yoshi P for EW then refreshed yt to this vid!
Thanks for the great questions and drawing out some interesting insights from him! Also thanks for chat bubbles 👍
Great interview and wonderfully insightful questions! Thanks for sticking with FFXIV!!
This was a fantastic chat. Yoshi-P is always really interesting to talk to and Mike has been a real gem of an addition to the community since he started XIV.
Really good to hear you specifically bringing up thinking you wouldn't like the game and how it's won you over; it's clear Yoshida sees this and recognizes the value of your approach to MMOs in general. After all, he's as much a fan as he is a dev.
Props to the team and to the translator. Great interview
Preach: [gets really cool interview with Yoshi P]
Most Viewers: ...
The Interview: [Chat Bubbles Confirm]
Most Viewers: **REAL SHIT.**
I'm just so happy for you right now
So happy you got to have a sit down wish the man himself. Out of all the people i know with a more broad MMO perspective you’re definitely the one that deserved this the most.
This is such a wonderful interview, just an honest conversation about video games and the people who play them. These two men are international treasures.
Thanks so much for leaving both translators in! I actually liked that a lot!
I really hope they stick to that ideal of not abandoning mechanic ideas in favor of safer ones (limit cut, buddy stacks, etc). Nothing drags at this game quite like playing tier after tier that makes me wonder why we haven't had any more fights as compelling to progress as Titan Savage was. I love cool shit like Uplift and I really don't want them to abandon them just because people get upset at losing uptime or the boss going invincible or whatever else. There's cool ideas that deserve to see more play in this game so the raids are fresh, not just difficult.
Chat bubbles would be amazing. You can visually see in a crowd where someone who's talking is standing.
Great questions Mike!! Thank you and your team for this fantastic interview
Cannot believe the dude who I used to watch mess around recording a webshow about the game I loved back then, on his couch with a mate, is now sitting across a couch from Yoshi-P talking about the game I love now.
I love this. The man who got to have my most favorite interviews with Ion Hazzikostas also scored an interview with the great Yoshi-P himself? Hot. Damn.
Amazing interview! I love your interviews and it's great to see such an interesting conversation.
This was a great interview. The chemistry was great. The questions that were asked were well thought out and delivered nicely and the part where you got Yoshi P to laugh at the "lala's being used as a raid marker" really brought it home for me. It was obvious that there was mutual respect. Great interview.
Such a great meeting! And no mentions of the scary red headed woman!
hey im slow who is that supposed to be lol
Bro got a dinner invitation from Yoshi P to discuss more game stuff sometime. That's amazing! You know he really values Preach's input on things, and it's easy to see why. Keep up the good work bro. This was a great interview with some great insights.
12:57 In another interview I saw, he spoke about how when he first started working on FFXIV back in 1.0, there was a case where White Mage could cast Cure 3 basically as much as they wanted without fear of running out of MP. Of course, this meant that all the other healing spells were rendered moot and there was never a reason to cast anything else. It was just bad game balance, so he implemented changes to make it so they would run out of MP if they just spammed their most powerful healing ability. However, this led to backlash from the players who now felt stressed, because now they had to actually consider their resources and what spells to use when. He said it was something that surprised him, but it was also a valuable learning experience.
From then on, whenever they make a mistake, they always try to correct it ASAP and give an explanation to the players *why* the change is necessary, so that people don't get accustomed to a broken mechanic. But he also believes that small adjustments on a larger scale will allow people to enjoy the game and slowly be ushered towards a new direction, rather than suddenly changing direction all at once, which can be disorienting and lead to people not enjoying the game. It's a very interesting design philosophy. Of course, if the adjustments are too small, it can make people feel like the game is stagnating or not really going anywhere, so it's a balancing act.
Hell yeah I love hearing both sides with their own voice + translation makes it feel more real and personal
The next time you go to meet yoshi-p you should bring whiteboard cutouts in the shape of chat bubbles for you two to write messages to each other on lmfao
I'm glad the team is going to keep dungeon design as is.. People asking for more from basic dungeons aren't considering the role these dungeons play in our progression. For those of us playing actively during an expansion, capping tomestones, gearing, etc, it is really nice to have our dungeons be more formulaic, because we're doing them every day. We can be surprised in other ways with specific content catered to the audience who wants more, like with variant/criterion.
You're doing them everyday, so you want them the same??? I'd want them hard to engage my mind, not easy to fall asleep to.
@@xalmor6044 They want them over with ASAP since they're doing them every day. These aren't the things that get them exited, so in and out, quick and done. There are other things in the game they go to for engagement.
Yoshi is a treasure this man must be protected at all costs. Fantastic interview Preach.
That was so cool! I can't believe you got a one on one with Yoshi P, great video!
Really happy you got to Media Tour Preach. Congrats man!
so happy to see this, i love the PG journalism and i was saddened to not get it but i am glad it happened
Dinner and wine with Yoshida? Lucky Preach
Really amazing interview!
Thank you for this ^^
Such a fantastic interview!! I'm so thankful that you decided to try 14, otherwise we'd have never gotten to see this!
Also I would take a punch to the head to protect Yoshi P. What a beacon of light in the gaming community, love that dude!
I still think in general for dungeon design, i like the idea of just having all dungeon corridors being open similar to dungeons like mt gulg where you can freely pull corridor to corridor if you so please or you can do wall to wall. even just that at least imo would be a massive dungeon design thing that might be simple enough to do?
Thanks for a great interview and always a pleasure to see Yoshi-P discussing philosophy and approach rather than just specific details (which while great, but are easily found through playing/live letters/resources)
What a genuine and beautiful interview, thank you to both of you for making this happen :D
Aaaaaaaaaaaa this is HUGE thank you 🎉🎉🎉
So glad you got the opportunity! Looking forward to listening :)
You're so much better at this whole sort of interview thing than I am. When you ask the question, by the time it's translated to Yoshida, he answers, and it's translated back, I have forgotten what the original question is!
Yoshi-ps reaction to the bubbles question lmaoooo, walked into it.
I am so glad you guys got the invite, great great video. keep itup!
Great interview, thanks for being awesome Mr.Preach!
Mike I am THRILLED that you had this opportunity and even more so that you chose to share it with all of us. I had goosebumps from excitement from start to finish. Thank you for all that you and your team do to connect with us! Cheers!
So happy for you Preach! This was a great interview 🎉 yay for chat bubbles!! 🥂
pso2 can be a fine example of using chat bubbles. but if the dev were frustrated and reluctant to have the option there is an idea for the player wanted to see the chat bubbles and the others who don't. Try go with an option to enable and disable the bubble chat. I too, really curious to have an option having a bubble chat so we can know who the hell is talking to us, wait... somehow bubble chat can also make us know who's the one saying it, despite us disable the name of the character display on players head?
Preach omg!!! This is so cool!!! I’m so excited for you!
"Preach-san" you heard it here first folks 0:52 🎉
Yoshi-p seems to understand a lot of English even before the translators do their job! He is such a cool guy, always love watching his interviews.
21:35 I love the look Yoshi-P is giving Preach as his words were being translated. I can't imagine who he was referring to with this comment haha.
This was a great interview, and I think Preach going from "stupid weeb gane" (unironically) to "stupid weeb game" (after Seto scene) to this interview has been an awesome journey!
Congrats Mike! I hope you get to have dinner with him sometime, hanging with the staff
You totally had me fooled Mike, good job. But glad you got invited, you deserved it! Now was the Italy trip an alibi or how did that work?
That was real, he showed photos and videos on stream. The media tour was the week after
Great work Preach! Love these interviews you get to do. 👍
Preach asking the perfect questions. Incredible work
The thing I love about this, and Mike even says it, for the longest time Mike was always instant NOPE to FFXIV, and now here he is, ranking it multiple times as his favorite video game story, talking to the man himself, I said it in chat when you showed it off live but just in case you see it here, but massive congrats Mike!
Congrats man. Awesome to see you got the chance to sit down with him. He is such a based Dev
Awesome interview! Thanks for sharing this with us.(:
15:00 He is spot on. Even though I never heard this before today, I could schedule how much time I have before I have to log off and plan accordingly.