FFXIV: Story, Crossovers & More - Gamescom 2024 Interview With Yoshi P - Crystal Universe

[@christabelle__]

A new comment to say: the difficulty level did NOT drop. The dungeons are rough, and push healers to pay attention and stop DPSing and actually heal. The raids are unique and fresh and exciting! As a healer, I rather enjoyed them. They're not the hardest thing in the world, but they're also not the easiest. (And the first raid of any new xpac in any MMO is usually easier, since balance is still being ironed out.)

[@CallistaLacera]

im still dpsing while healing. gasp. you don't need to top people off and overheal. its not worth it

[@LuminateTheWorld]

Eh. The honeymoon of New dungeons has ended. Unless it's a drk, im not having to do any gcd heals at all. People having moderately decent gear now when doing expert and thus, things die faster then the damage the tank will be taking. A few ogcd heals and some single target mit is all that's needed for 90% of the pulls I'd say. Maybe more. It's at the point again where I'm quing as dps now cause I find healing just that boring again.

[@h.g.buddne7327]

yea pls stop this green dps bullshit

[@ChrisPrice12]

I think Monster Hunter crossover and am suddenly reminded that Yoshi P apparently said Rajang is one of his favorite monsters.

[@AFKei]

I'm not ready to get manhandled by the monke...

[@ChrisPrice12]

@AFKei You won't get manhandled. You'll be over there. And a bit over there. And over there.

[@AFKei]

@@ChrisPrice12 Or in one unfortunate case in a previous run-in: thrown into the ground and then get slapped into a pancake.

[@katerinaquinn5482]

The hairstyle limiting is a very reason I don't Play female hrothgar And I've wanted that for years. Because they have even less hairstyle options than the male version.

[@15doz]

I’d like to see some of the race specific styles available to other races Like female Au-Ra have 2 of the best short hairstyles and my favorite long hairstyle whereas Miqo’te and lalafell have the best twintail style

[@-UwU-catgirl-]

It’s criminal how little options female hrothgar have. All hairs from each face should be available for all faces. It’s stupid that they are locked to faces. When there is little to no difference in face shape. I don’t play f hrothgar cuz of this also viera and hrothgar (especially hrothgar) should have more hair styles because they can’t wear hats

[@kevingalvan1905]

I enjoyed female hroth but i switched back to male hroth for that reason alone, limited hairstyles

[@waywardwriterryu7185]

For a sec from the thumbnail I thought they announced a ffxiv x mh wilds crossover already

[@Zakjuh]

that would've been good...

[@iceman3317]

@@Zakjuh I doubt we will be getting crossovers this year. But we might start getting more next year... Personally hopping for Kingdom Hearts crossover still.

[@strawberrydialectics]

@10:00 but you already *can* use glamour plates in rest/sanctuary areas by aetherytes in the open world. and i honestly think if they are still trying to figure out how to make it possible to use outside of rest zones, it should be very very low on their to-do list. as we have it currently is more than sufficient

[@Tardisntimbits]

I get the feeling they're maybe being hectored for this. Honestly, I'd rather them spend the time and money to fortify the structure of the game of it's to run for the next ten years.

[@georjoporjo3323]

you actually can change glamour plate anywhere theres a sanctuary, even in zones with monsters

[@RicardoSantos-oz3uj]

Except that there are no monsters in sanctuary cities.

[@strawberrydialectics]

​@@RicardoSantos-oz3uj they said "even with.." as they are not referring to only cities but to open world rest areas

[@Zakjuh]

Kinda feel the complaint about the raid "difficulty" is asinine. The raid is plenty difficult, it's just not got a strict enrage. You're still not just gonna waltz through all the mechanics without doing them correctly as a group and slide to an easy win. This conflation of "long enrage timer = easy fight" is lame. Enrage timers are part of what can make a fight difficult, but they sure aren't "the difficulty".

[@Naoto-kun1085]

I definitely agree, I'm tired of people treating enrage time as the only hard aspect of a fight. The actual mechanics are what make up the entire fight, enrage is just gear level, melds, food, and pots.

[@Zakjuh]

@@Naoto-kun1085 Enrage sure is a part of "difficulty". Mostly in the way that it will limit the amounts of deaths experienced by a party, and that it forces players not just to overcome mechanics but maximize their damage through them. But yeah, the Arcadion discourse has vexed me so much because it seems to center the notion that a loose enrage timer means "EZ EZ EZ FACEROLL EZ" and that the quality of a raid tier is decided by how long it takes world first groups to clear it. It's just sad, and sending that kind of message to the dev team is not something that seems like it'll necessarily lead to positive developments. I also think fun > difficulty.

[@NgusyWbwjle]

It is a deciding factor to how many mistakes a team can make before clearing a fight. If the enrage is tight that means they actually tested it out beforehand and set it in such a way that filter out a big pile from the pool, leaving actual optimized people in. On the other hand leaving gap for players to make up for the mistakes along the way by extending out 1-2 mechs means that more people getting the clear. If a change caused more people to success at one thing isn't that one of the sign of it getting easier? This is not the difficulty itself but no one is talking about people who expect themselves to just "waltz through all the mechanics without doing them correctly as a group and slide to an easy win" as if any sane mind actually believed that. The mechs this time has some refresh mechs but the downside is having been toned down a lot to have it accommodating to more casual players and at the same time leaves a sour taste in week 1-2 clearers of previous tiers. That's what i think as one who joined at the start of EW.

[@RicardoSantos-oz3uj]

@@Zakjuh For fun there is the normal raids. For difficulty, and people who have a ridiculous amount of time to play, there is the savage raids. The time and dicipline needed to do raids. Would be better serve by doing something that betters your life. Raids are not fun, they are just ego boots.

[@duskyjackal1699]

Idk if you followed what yoshi was saying, instead of just adjusting the picto down a bit. 1 class.... they buffed every other single class........... That sounds so dumb. Idk why the hell they didnt just bring picto down a notch or two.

[@beambreaker300]

I hope they bring Hilda back

[@exiaedges]

The mechanics you describe for Jhen Mohran is pretty similar to Bismarck, but no offense, Jhen Mohran and Bismarck are fights that are not really popular with both Monster Hunter and FFXIV players, as they were heavily criticized by their respective player base.

[@ViralC1]

The pacing is important in any part of the plot. Not just the villain. Dawntrail sure could've used some better pacing

[@XieRH1988]

FFXIV will never have truly good pacing as long as it forces the MSQ to also serve as an orientation tour of every corner of every new zone introduced in an expansion. Havent you noticed it by now? How you always seem to have to go somewhere to gather materials or ingredients? That's their modus operandi to get you to explore the zone, and the main story suffers for it.

[@ViralC1]

@@XieRH1988 But it was better in shadowbringers and endwalker. More naturally paced. I'm not saying it has to suddenly be paced like a proper novel. It's still an MMO. But saying that the current pacing is "okay because it's a new arc" is just copium. It lacked the quality of writing from the previous 2 expansions.

[@atreides2146]

Glamour plates will apply anywhere inside a sanctuary - which includes villages and such in the open zones (i.e. Aleport, Forgotten Springs, Mor Dhona) - anywhere with a (working) Aetheryte. I'm not a programmer, so I do acknowledge that these things are easier said than done. - But what if rather than having the glam-plates stored in the dresser - each gearset had its own built-in glam-plate. This way - rather than the system having to search for and apply the gear glam codes - the gearsets have a built in / preset glam code. The glamdresser would then be the interface to allow us to change/update our glam-plate.

[@Tardisntimbits]

That would stymy me in my quest to have a zillion reaper glams, lol.

[@Mocita]

I’ve actually tried to go to another server in Limsa Lominsa and couldn’t because of congestion, and when I went to Gridania it was almost an insta-queue. Location does matter, and usually the least active cities will be your best option.

[@BrambleBear]

Meoni acknowledging the elephant in the cash shop. It just can't be ignored, and I bought the Woodland Warden's Attire as opposed to any of the released with head gear that would just not show on my character.

[@uwalani]

you're wasting money on a hat you cant even wear, and even if you want to wear it you'd have to buy fantasia which probably would cost more that what that hat would cost if the prices were split between the pieces. SIGHH

[@uwalani]

the thing is it shouldn't be a big deal, but the way modders can do this shit easily where the hat doesnt look weird at all, still cant really understand why the devs can't do it. it's one of those things where a small problem turned into a big problem throughout the years

[@ViralC1]

In regards to yoshi P's response to viera and hrothgar headgear; I just picture it like that scene from the original iron man movie where the guy's like "Tony stark built this thing in a cave! From scraps!" Except "Tony stark" would be the modders that have seemingly perfectly developed headpiece models that fit viera and hrothgar heads in this case. It's clearly possible. MORE than possible if a small team of modders can do it. The official team has 0 excuse.

[@operaticandroid459]

Stop mocking my fav single dollar company SE! You can play different games if you don't like it! 🤡

[@FieldMarshall3]

I was giving them the benefit of the doubt when the new races just came out and gear could have already been designed and shipped, but its been years and now they are deliberately designing new gear with the intent of excluding 2 of the races from using it. That's not just lazy, its insane. I genuinely dont understand why SE is taking this so lightly, i would be embarrassed and humiliated by this if i were them.

[@sonnyson01]

Its just not worth it for them. For them to hire an FTE to do this or to spend resources to retroactively fix the hair or headpieces just doesn't have a decent enough ROI. People complain, but they wont unsub over it so they lose no money over it. It's shitty, but them saying they'll only edit new things moving forward makes sense.

[@Zakjuh]

client side and server side is not the same, and "perfectly developed" is quite misleading because let's be honest, it's far from perfect, and if square did it the same way, people would complain about it being half-assed. also mdoders don't necessarily have a long list of other things to work on in the game. but yeah, they should have hrothgar and viera hats already.

[@ViralC1]

@@sonnyson01 You're forgetting that there's more to an ROI than just financial gain. They could do this as a project to foster goodwill with the community. Reputation matters in longstanding games like these. The more time and resources they spend on quality of life aspects, the more likely players are to recommend the game to friends and family.

[@Jake38nine]

Speaking of "pulling the trigger", remember when Emet Selch pulled the trigger on Crystal Exarch and shot him in the back? Could've been certain death for him, yet they kept him alive, Thankfully. Emet was evil enough to hate up to that point, but that could've fueled the fire even more-so if they had not planned on trying to redeem him in Elpis. I was kinda disappointed that they tried to redeem Zoraal Ja a slight bit at the end of his Trial. I was looking forward to just a pure evil character for once. But instead they gave him daddy issues, even though the story NEVER shows a negative side to Gulool Ja Ja at all, so while you're listening to Zoraal Ja's daddy issues, you're like, "But we never saw or heard anything negative about Gulool Ja Ja, sow hat are you talking about?"

[@Shiirow]

let me guess you are not a gifted older sibling with younger siblings... Zoraal Ja didnt have daddy issues, he was under the strain of being a gifted person, in many facets of his life, and the struggle with trying to live up to everyones expectations of him, though his father was clearly more enamored with Wack Lebron, so he wanted to show he was the more qualified which lead to his downfall. We had a pure evil character, Zenos, the man was an arrogant and selfish person who committed mass genocide against his own people and the world just to have fight with someone.

[@Jake38nine]

@Shiirow And yet the community and the game still somehow redeem Zenos somehow, too. I want a character that's absolutely hated by everything and everyone. Not beloved or felt sympathy for. They did not write Zoraal Ja that great. His redemption was moments before death. It was lazy. He just needed to be a cold blood killer and even a cold blood rapist who created Gulool Ja from it. The FFXIV directors and writers always try to redeem or make a character have positive qualities. The only one I can remember being absolutely hated is the Garlean scum in the Weapons Trio trials where he was truly sickening and implied Allie, the Au Ra girl who survived out of her siblings, was groomed and sexually assaulted by the garlean scum. And that was a side quest part of the story that people would've skipped if they weren't that serious about playing all content in the game. As far as I can remember, there hasn't been an MSQ villain that's been dreadfully hated for all of eternity and not redeemed. It's part of why I hate Emet Selch because he was redeemed in the end. I still enjoy the writing despite it all, but I have my criticisms and get a bit tired of bad guys being redeemed.

[@DrunkenEros]

Oh please theres 0 excuses for them not giving hrothgar and viera equality in customisation, especially after the update where they standardised the heads

[@redpenguin28]

I agree. What was the point of standardizing if they aren't all standardized. If this wasn't the perfect time to fix that I don't know when it would be.

[@israelquiles9127]

Are you a game developer?

[@ugxsan]

Ok, but as a Hrothgar player, I would like to highlight a very particular case in the current expansion. The light-heavyweight and Dark Horse Champion Fending/Maiming head gear looks goofy IMO, but on Hrothgar (and I assume by extension Viera) you don’t get the hat, but you keep the shades and that looks swag af! I’m glad it’s actually BiS so I can keep my sick shades on all my GNB glams.

[@Max_Azafel]

23:45, 24:46 Finally, someone who gets it. A shame other players think the opposite where everything needs to be a warrior.

[@TenzaBurabura]

I think Zenos was mentioned several times in ARR when discussing the empire, but we never got to see them or even anyone directly connected with them, unless you count the legatusi.

[@mrmors1344]

most of that was cut in the EW msq cuts as well.

[@AlleluiaElizabeth]

Zenos wasn’t mentioned before Stormblood I don’t think. Empower Solus was mentioned a few times. And Varis was name dropped and then seen.

[@Zevi-j5t]

@@mrmors1344 No, it wasnt. They only trimmed quests from arr in shadowbringers, EW was just dungeon reworks.

[@mrmors1344]

@@Zevi-j5t ah i misremembered then, could have sworn ew also had more msq cuts in ARR.

[@Zevi-j5t]

@@mrmors1344 Nah, they didnt. Theres only so much they can trim until the plot in the expansions begin to suffer for it after all.

[@MMT399561]

Ayo my boy Whiskerphant. That is kinda funny because hes also Hauchefant in the german translation. Edit: Projection palettes is the literal translation used in german FF. The german and english translations of FF tend to go very different ways. Sometimes I struggle to understand what one thing in one language means in the other, because it is so very non literal in its translation. Anyway, I think the mentality that beloved characters are more or less save from death is dangerous for storytelling. Killing beloved characters is up there with the strongest emotional things you can do to the reader (or player in FFs case) of a story. Everything gets irrelevant when all characters have plotarmor. Also, for as tragic as it was, look at how iconic Hauchefants death is. Stuff like this elevates a story from good to great and special.

[@eyrilonakestrysswyn3513]

I think what a lot of people are experiencing right now, is the dissonance that all these interviews are assuring us something good will be coming, but very little has actually been set up in the game to point in that direction. The "item" that ends up in our hands at the end of Dawntrail right now, at the end of an entire main expansion plot, has virtually no backstory. It is a McGuffin delivered without a story in progress for us to get excited about how we are going to be using that McGuffin for anything specific enough to look forward to.

[@Pizzadelivery24]

I don’t really like that basically saying that they really don’t wanna kill off a beloved character. Makes me feel like all the main are safe, which makes the stakes lower in the story. And they did way too many fake out deaths too. Very interesting to see if they can keep my attention with stakes seemingly being low

[@Zakjuh]

Meanwhile, Endwalker killed off Venat, and I cared more about her than any of the other deaths, and any of the possible deaths of singular Scions. When people say "they won't kill beloved characters", what you mean is that they won't kill Scions. There are many more characters that are beloved that aren't Scions. If you were a fan of the Twelve, Endwalker was a pretty miserable time for you, too. Not that I disagree that they should be willing to kill off a Scion if the situation is right. Thancred's near-death vs Ran'jit was probably the closest it came to "being right." Basically, they shouldn't be scared of doing it, but they also shouldn't be rushing off to create a Scion bloodbath, either. I know a lot of people bellyache about the Scions being in the story for too long and too often, but that just feels like a lot of "I don't know how good I have it." I will assure you that if half of the Scions are dead or written out of the story, a good amount of people will check out. Especially the people who liked the removed Scions over the ones that remained. Anyway, XIV still kills off characters we care about, just not the ones that are considered big ticket Scion characters.

[@Pizzadelivery24]

@@Zakjuh it’s not even necessarily that they have to kill them off but if they would just write them off, give them a happy ending or something. I really feel like we have too many of the main party as it is.

[@teyrns]

If the steaks are lower, how will they grill? 😁

[@Zakjuh]

@@Pizzadelivery24 Yeah. To be fair, I think writing them out of the story is borderline a death too. It's a conceptual death. I just don't think they wanna be too hasty in throwing away characters that people know and a lot of them love. And also, how are you going to choose who gets the axe if they do? I'd say narratively. But if you're to look at fans, you will never get an answer. You could have a cadre of G'raha fans slavering to see Y'shtola ditched and vice versa, yet if their favorite character dies or is written out of the story, then they'll leave the game behind out of anger. It's very hard to please people. Hell, you could even see this in Dawntrail. None of the Scions went away-away, but a lot of them were soft-shelved, like G'raha and Y'shtola, and to some extent Urianger and Thancred as well. You really only spent time with Krile and the twins, and a lot of people already had the view that "oh, I'm gonna be stuck with THE TWINS? I'd rather have Urianger and Thancred" and so on. And then there's the fact that a future plot may very much profit from the existence of a character, because they have such good thematic ties to it. If that character is gone, you can't play on that. None of this is to say they should keep all characters alive at all time, but I understand their conundrum, and the community isn't going to help them get a better understanding of what to do and when.

[@Zevi-j5t]

@@Zakjuh To be fair, it was teased that the entire scion group would have a cool rivalry, and when we didnt really get that at all people are naturally upset the scions didnt do much this expac even if we've had plenty of them. As a y'shtola fan this is like the 3rd time we've seen her soft-shelved and saved for stuff like alexander raids and post story, im kinda tired of it

[@petalbed9206]

I wish all hair is unlocked for all races, it just hair. But I understand making that happen could take forever to implement😢 Ex: miqo could wear Viera hair etc.

[@SeventyVelle]

I understand them not wanting/being able to go back and fix every single head gear. As far as viera, it still just makes no sense why they can just give everything ear holes/covers like the miqote have. And the fact they just keep making more and more artifact job armor and cash shop items that aren't compatible with viera/hroth is just criminal.

[@DrunkenEros]

If the can have au ra horns just clip through they can do the sane for viera or hrothgar

[@SeventyVelle]

@DrunkenEros exactly. Long hair clips, aura horns, miqo ears get holes/covers. There's ways they can do it. I sort of understand the "head model" issue for hroth more given, the males at least, have a diff shaped head with having their snout etc. But a viera is pretty much just hyur with small nose and big ears stuck on top.

[@Horstveratu]

meh any 3d artist intern could fix all the hats alone as their first half year project to get used to the work flow

[@CapsuleCorpStudios]

All I want is a Kingdom Hearts Crossover (only Original KH Characters ofc)

[@rotisseriepossum]

I want Mickey Mouse to tell me not to give up while ‘Dynamis’ plays in the background

[@Tardisntimbits]

I want Aqua's outfit as a glam... :O

[@natashagalaxy7228]

I hope for the Wilds collab they do a better job with the armour. I don't want to disrespect the artist who worked hard on the rathalos armour, but it just did not look that good compared to the iconic rathalos set.

[@Zakjuh]

You are completely correct. It was a really boring and milquetoast set for such a cool collab. They could've gone all out.

[@doinyourdad_6969]

And yet not a kh crossover is in sight…😢

[@NoctisZeroWorld]

Disney

[@katherinemerkel3505]

Thank god

[@alarootw1823]

No main characters or scions will ever be killed and I realized why. They have tied all of these characters to optional content and storylines. Class quests (dragoon) has Ein. And all of the Scions are connected to Raid storylines. The devs have put themselves in an odd place. If you do older content after a chatacter dies would break immersion.

[@frax1826]

Doesn't seem to be an issue running Prae for the 95012759126712th time.

[@alarootw1823]

@@frax1826 but no important character dies in any of those cutscenes. Which also means Cid is also safe forever. He is also in numerous side content. Maybe they will not care about immersion. I could be wrong. But it really explains why No BIG character had met their end, even during "End" walker.

[@eetdotmp4]

1 like = one RIP for Wiskerphant 💙

[@chelsthegameruiner8669]

I'd imagine that if its another MH collab, it'll be a flagship monster (i.e. Valstrax, Malzeno, Velkhana, Nergigante, etc.) I'd enjoy a Valstrax fight personally. That monster became one of my favorites in Generations Ultimate, Gore Magala as well. I can see Fatalis as well

[@Deode-d4h]

I'd go for Fatalis for a safe wide appeal to MH players or Valstrax because seeing the Warrior of Light needing to use Tank LB3 to survive the dive bomb attack or being knocked back into a different platform is just hype as all heck.

[@yeolliepop9017]

I’d love magnamalo from MHR or Nergi, but let’s face it would probably be Rathian 😂

[@Deode-d4h]

@@yeolliepop9017 Might as well be Silver Rathalos and Gold Rathian if it's any of the Raths

[@ChrisPrice12]

They might go with Zinogre since it won the popularity vote.

[@Boyzby]

@@Deode-d4h I still can't believe Rathalos EX wasn't a variant like that. It was so obvious.

[@trebr3731]

Monster Hunter crossover is my favorite crossover in any game. Both in FFXIV and in MHW

[@thevoxdeus]

YoshiPs explanation of bad balance in 7.05 amounts to negligence / incompetence. There's no reason why Pictos should have been so imbalanced in the first place. There's no reason why they should have chosen to balance other DPS to Picto levels instead of nerfing the outlier, and there's no reason why, having decided to do that anyway, they shouldn't have adjusted mob health in proportion. Personally, I don't care if raids are "too easy' since I'm a pretty casual player, but I still find it kind of unbelievable that YoshiP offers an explanation that involves 3 consecutive levels of negligence as some kind of justification. He's basically saying "the balance would have been fine, if only we'd done our jobs at any point" and daring anyone to ask why they didn't do their jobs.

[@bolladragon]

Oh hey, my theory of over buffing jobs to match picto’s overtuned skills messing with the raid difficulty was exactly correct.

[@dracothedraconian]

For the viera and heothgar head issue, i see the awnser as a cop out, they must of known that develouping the heads as they did would lead to issues down the road, to blaintintly say it is impossible when they themselves caused the issue is a bit short sighted, even more so when the fans have done what they claim to be impossible, For MH cross over, with how fast some fights are getting Crimson Glow Valstrax would be a fun fight if we had it, since its blade arms would make it fit in quite well. (Plus a valstrax mount would be fun)

[@Zakjuh]

They developed heads this way because that was the intention. They wanted to make them "special races", and give them unique hairstyles tailored to their race while leaving the other races' hairstyles out, as well as omitting hats. That was the intention. Obviously, we now know that didn't gel with the community, who have since been clamoring for Viera and Hrothgar to both be treated like regular races, and have led to CBU3 throwing on bandaids to make that happened piecemeal. You may ask them "what were they thinking???" but there are games where this kind of thing slides. Take WoW for example, which is their main "competitor", and it has a race that can't use gloves, boots and pants, and a race that can't use anything except shoulders and a belt, and the community thinks that's alright. Fortunately, the XIV community doesn't accept that, and has been on CBU3's case about it since ShB, but races being released being able to wear basically nothing is not unheard of, so they were probably testing the waters there. And now they have to revert course.

[@warllockmasterasd9142]

Modding is not the same as model building though.

[@TakaChan569]

Killing char for the sake of it is dumb, there are better way to build tension or some feeling toward and enemy and honestly char deaths often just feel like the cheap way to do it.

[@positivelypepper]

You can already change glamour plates at any sanctuary (if the place has an aetheryte, you can change your glam). You don't have to teleport back to a main city to do it. You just can't do it out side of sanctuaries or in dungeons, which honestly I like. I feel like glamour plates in dungeon could lead to some annoying distractions or trolling.

[@SprocketAudio]

Sanctuary Glamour plate changing all over the world already exists

[@Jemstoness]

I can understand about the glamour plates. Dawntrail day 1, my glamour plate glitched out and only half of it loaded up. It was easy to reapply it but i imagine that’s what they were trying to avoid.

[@donmid9112]

I'd love to see the final zone having the ability to "Turn on" everything. Trying to keep spoiler free here.

[@NanoElite666]

So if you want to turn all the lights back on in that zone, you can go into the New Game+ menu and start up any story chapter that takes place prior to the end of DT. Then when you go back to that final zone it will be all lit up and lively again.

[@thisWinglessAngel]

The interviewer was asking the real questions. I'm hopeful for another monster hunter crossover. I seriously hope they think about adding more aetherytes that can server hop. I like having ishgard as my main homepoint so that'd be great.

[@Darkkan13]

Woah woah woah. Depends on the kind of story it is. It would be weird if all stories killed off characters that were no longer needed. (Romance stories with love triangles would definitely be different if this was a thing). They could just not write about them until they are >actually< needed or have us be in an area that is unavailable to be reached (ex. shard or past or really anything). Let's not jump to deaths. Also why bring up anime? This is something specific to mostly shonen/shoujo stories which are aimed at >kids to teens.< Not all anime are death free, just like not all stories have characters dying. It's not specific to anime so let's not go there.

[@Frey_au]

About the raid tier, difficulty is one of the main essentials to certain players. However it is hardly to agree with "hard is fun" as for the ultimates in EW, imo SHB savage raid is in the right place. The main concept of savage is a mind game with interesting mechanics and creativity to trigger positive respsonses of players. It could be hard or easy either way, as long as we could see creativity and fresh idea from a big company with that much resources they have.

[@Sacredbull]

Regarding Hrothgar and Viera headgear and hair styles. I get they say it might take time but there are plenty of modders who have addressed this already. You’d think they’d maybe reach out or employ those teams to help sort it out in the main game (and less reason for players to rely on third party tools to enjoy their race and gear choices) I’d rather the dev team spent time on this than the little nuisances of facial tweaks they’ve focused on since the graphic changes.

[@revjimmyjam3611]

What program runs these mods, and where can I find it? Install/run instructions included?

[@Sacredbull]

@@revjimmyjam3611 couldn’t tell you that (they all go against the Terms of Service for the game. I have no idea and I’ve never looked into it. But it’s well circulated they exist and screenshots all over social media.

[@CoDwithSwords]

Modders have gotten hundreds of hats working with bunnies. The dev team has NO excuse.

[@Griffin96ful]

why dont you go do it yourselft since you speak so much, get hired and go, dont assume devs dont care or dont want to do it, it s not a priority for them at the moment, there are more pressing problems and stuff on they list

[@sinom]

​@@Griffin96fulCS3 currently is not hiring technical artists, who would be working on this type of specs change. Additionally they already said they are currently in the process of trying to change the specs so they can do this so the chance of them opening any position for this is close to 0. So even if someone wanted to just "come in, do it themselves and fix it for them" they can't.

[@UmbraWeiss]

​@@Griffin96fulwhat problem? They had 4+years for it.... And did absolutely nothing, the graphics update is literal garbage, the new story is garbage the content is copy paste with reused asset's .... They all talk, hype up everything, and after all that they will push out some half assed shit, like the 2 channel coloring.... People need to wake up, the game is on life support money, and they do only the bare minimum without any big investment in the game for the longer term... They didn't even try to innovate in any way for 10+years now, I know this because I play this game from 1.0 and heard all the same excuses when they don't want to do something... Everything they did lately is half assed , nothing more.

[@Griffin96ful]

@@UmbraWeiss you know you dont need to play the game if you dont like it they arent chaining you to the chair and forcibly playing the game, i still do like the game so far, and to the contrary of what you might think people like you are the vocal minority. I am no excusing nobody here, many problems are there and visible to everyone, just saying problems dont resolve with a finger snap and poof stuff happen

[@jackjohnson8305]

@@UmbraWeiss Damn bro just quit the game if you're that upset about it lol

[@IOSALive]

Meoni, great content keep up the amazing content

[@mariannerichard1321]

Indeed, I made a new alt last May, I thought to wait and make a female Hrothgar, but then was disappointed to not be able to wear a hat yet again with my Viera and decided to go with Au Ra instead. Also with the FFXV collab a few month ago, I bought the haircut, even though it wasn't working on Viera, hoping one day it will be... Which is a bit sad, to be honest. As for Horchefant, Papalymo and Moenbryda while we're at it, weird we haven't stumble into one of their shard yet, we have met Rowena and Gerolt's twice already. Or are we such a potent cashcow that we Rowena can't help herself? xD OK, maybe we have met Papalymo on the First, but haven't recognized him behind the mask and beard. xD More seriously though, having Moenbryda showing us around the 9th would be... both super fun because of her personality, but also heart breaking because we know she's dead in our world. Even more heart breaking if Urianger is around.

[@ChaoticMato]

When it comes to monhun choices for ff14, i can see namielle, teostra/lunestra, Zinogre, Brachy, bazelgeuse or Nerg. Just because those are the more memerable fights to me, If i were to really go off the wall, there's astalos, fatalis or everyone's favorite angry lightning monkey Rajang. Furious version preferred.

[@christabelle__]

I have NEVER understood the big deal around Haurchefaunt - he was a questgiver who I never felt like I got to know well. He was nice enough, for a mere acquaintance....but why am I supposed to be so moved by his death, as opposed to anyone else who has died in these wars? I was more sad about Zenos' death! I had more of a rapport with HIM than the quest-giver from late ARR, early HW. The entire glamour system needs to be torn out at the roots, and re-made. I can transmog anywhere I want, in WoW. It is also instant. All I need is the right NPC to allow me to do so! If WoW can update their 20 year old game to handle this...why can't FFXIV? It's barely half as old as WoW! And WoW devs have gutted old systems! They tore out old character creation, and put a whole new version in, so now eye colors aren't tied to the face you pick anymore ( like Au Ra horns with faces STILL are).They've added new hair, new eye colors, new tattoos...why can't XIV?? At ten years old, half of WoW's age! They still make excuses saying the system is old, it can't do that - when other MMOs have proven that that is untrue. You CAN take old systems out, and add NEW systems in their place. It's time to do away with a set number of glamour plates and a glamour dresses and only changing glamour in rest areas. Their team may be smaller than WoW's, and maybe they have a hard time getting funding for the most requested feature ever...but I doubt it. If they dedicated a group of people to studying other games like WoW and GW2 and how they do their transmog/glamour systems? They could learn, and iterate, and put in a whole new system that isn't 10 years out of date. GW2 is about the same age as XIV, and has updated more than they have, and have had a better glamour system since the beginning - and their dye system is a thousand times better!

[@Zakjuh]

Second this, sort of. Except not Zenos' death, but Venat's. Cared way more about her than Haurchefant. The only thing that got me with Haurchefant was his father's reaction, not the actual death.

[@Titanius_zos_Aires]

Haurchefaunt showed an unusual level of care/concern for the WoL in late ARR (though some may have read it as goofiness or a bit horny). When we get forced to teleport to a broken aetheryte to Shiva that could end with us stuck in the lifestream...he is rightfully angry. Contrast that with another point (I think its the dragon on the bridge trial turned solo duty) F'lhaminn promises food and celebration when we get back...but when we do get back we find out everybody else feasted and there wasn't anything saved for us and F'lhaminn just brushes it off. It may have been ARR, but it wasn't just Alphy that treated the WoL as a means to an end. There's even more nuggets of Haurchefant's dialogue that demonstrates him to be far more of a friend than anybody in the Scions. Its only after the bloody banquet that that trend changes. But to see it you had to actually talk to people and not just rush to get out of ARR. And because its a slog, most people's eyes glazed over and clicked for the next quest. I also think part of it is he seemed to be getting more involved in Heavensward as the story progressed. So it felt like he was going to be there with you through the next bit and then he was stolen away.

[@Sunari]

I enjoyed playing as a hrothgal for a bit and I love viera, but I do tend to miss my matoyas hat. If nothing else I think contest prizes and things you get through paid methods really should be for all the races. I feel like with hrothgar and viera as a whole they wanted to stick to a certain vision of those races, but it’s hard to do when miqote and au’ra already wear some crazy hhats or have simple ear holes in hats, and even for some helms and things elezen and lalafell have hilarious triangles. It at least feels like they had a vision that these races wouldn’t put a lot on their heads forgetting how much of the community enjoys the glam aspect. As to character death I’m a bit ambivalent because it’d be silly just to off someone to meet some unnecessary quota. It’d also become rather formulaic if it happened all the time. Could just be that they need to build more bonds with some of the side characters or something, but it’s also going to come down to a personal perspective. I doubt everyone cared about all the previous losses, but there’s plenty who wished we had Moenbryda longer or were sad to see Papalymo go. I have a friend who still wishes we had Tesleen for longer in ShB. It’s also not like nobody dies in the world just characters we care about less and some are implied/happen off camera (ShB - sidequest where guy in Eulmore is looking for his songbird). That said with the trust system it’s probably easier to keep going with the current models, and I mean the trusts who you level up since you get story options for duty support. However would’ve been nice to have some new friends truly introduced this expac after feeling like we had a nice “see you later” with the scions already. Kind of hoping Erenville for example becomes a companion next expac when they can use him for one of the new jobs, but it’d be nice to have more than just him even though I imagine some of the scions will always cycle in n out. I suspect we’ll be doing research with Yshtola after how DT ended.

[@paupascualramirez9979]

My gripe with the MonHun crossover is how unfair it looks compared to the Nier one. That one got a whole alliance raid, their glams untouched, mounts, minions, decorations, hairstyles... Yet in terms of enjoyment, Rathalos is way more fun than Nier raids by far

[@Keneset88]

With regards to character's death, it is important to create the kind of drama and scene to which they would portray themselves as a whole. I mean, the fact that the warrior of light at some point has gained this super power creep that can kill anything or anyone with as much as a stroke of a paintbrush is important to note. Something on what Jesse Cox said on his video about during his review in Dawntrail were the scions in how they were used and not used often. I think the writing team in general though is too scared to take on that task. Drama is important without it there would be no tragedy and if there was no tragedy we would be caught up in the same loop that everyone is always happy and smiles which in turn sounds like a Living Memory simulation. It's almost as if the WoL is just dreaming already that the scions were just a figment of his imagination and we've just recreated them thousands of times to say they are still here but in reality should have been dead two or three expansions ago. But, that's my take.

[@Titanius_zos_Aires]

I would like to see cross world travel available just from capital cities that have housing - ADD Kugane and Ishgard. Housing tours would be much nicer if you did have to go from Kugane to Limsa, cross, then back to Kugane. Other reasons to cross world make sense to have a "tax" because there some sort of reward (eg hunt trains or market board prices)...but to go to housing, that tax feels bad.

[@kat_cobain]

Mostly all the scions (besides Alphinaud, I think?) had at least two "fake deaths" in the series (and Y'shtola having about three no?). It'd be repetitive anyway if they killed one off, which was helping me cope with DT's story for the longest because that was the one thing giving me anxiety before the game's release... Anyway, what I'm trying to say is, they're not killing the scions. If anything, they'll kill the WoL off before they kill them.

[@ShabadoobieVT]

Im surprised that nobody is talking about the possibility of dlusing the artifact to make what happened in Yasulani/Heritage Found happen between the First and Thirteenth to balance out Light and Dark between them.

[@NoctisZeroWorld]

Sadly that wouldnt work. Because they would have to change entire maps from Shadow Bringers, into new maps. And they cannot do that. Even if they make new maps to represent the changes, then it would be weird to have "balanced" maps, and full light maps still.

[@TheMidWave]

@NoctisZeroWorld they have already shown they could do this with living memory.

[@ShabadoobieVT]

@@NoctisZeroWorld Counterpoint, the Empty exists

[@yanipheonu]

​​@@NoctisZeroWorldthey could just make new maps in the same area. Nothing stopping us from exploring other parts of the First or Thirteenth. They're huge places we've barely explored.

[@BobbieWilsonATX]

"Key" item

[@keiyangoshin3650]

I have no idea where the story is going and I’m cool with that. 😅 I just hope I’ll be able to discover it for myself. 😁

[@Naoto-kun1085]

I agree, I kinda wish interviewers would stop trying to get spoilers out of Yoshi-P by asking these sorts of questions, obviously he can't answer them XD

[@Zakjuh]

I am super conflicted on the story. I think altogether, the tone and the execution was lacking, but there were some concepts and moments I did really like. I'm sort of glad for all the outrage, because I hope it'll light a fire under the team's butt. For me, the upcoming patches are going to be an interesting time. We'll be seeing in real time if the feedback landed and if things will improve, or if things only narratively get worse from hereon out. We're at a crossroads.

[@MobyWi]

Pls give me a pukei pukei mount or a screaming black diabolos I would love to have that as a mount 😂❤

[@Bardic_Knowledge]

I'm wondering if we'll have a crossover event with Magic: the Gathering, since MtG is doing an FF set that's supposed to be coming out next year. While I'm kinda hoping it'll be a "fight off a Phyrexian incursion from March of the Machine" mini-story, I could also see it being centred around Triple Triad, since Magic is, off course, a card game.

[@MithDragon]

I'll be honest, I actually hate this idea so much. Universes Beyond is already incredibly controversial within MTG to begin with. We really don't need that level of crossover because SE is more than capable of creating better original characters than collabing with WOTC.

[@Bardic_Knowledge]

​@@MithDragonNearly everything Magic does causes controversy in some way. Honestly, I think they should slow way down with UB and Secret Lairs, but, according to MaRo, UB is generally well liked, plus has been good at doing what it was meant to and being the bridges getting more people into Magic. The main reason I'd like to see such a crossover event happen in XIV is specifically because I want it to be a crossover in both directions, much like most other such events XIV has had, rather than only happening in one direction. It'd be a pretty poor bridge that only worked one way.

[@someoneelse7287]

All the vanilla and au ra faces are pretty similar, with au ra horns just clipping through all the helmets and headgear. Viera and hrothgar heads are different, with viera ears and hrothgar overall heads being much different than any of the other races. To fit all the gear they essentially need to make a while new piece for hrothgar, and viera they should basically do au ra and just clip the ears through. I doubt they would do what they did with drg with the custom ear armor. Pc players just mod it but console is stuck. I hope it's fixed but the last report showed these two races as an extremely small portion of the playerbase, so it might not be a priority.

[@asyme9717]

I'd buy the hat/hairstyle excuse more if modders didn't constantly make this work....

[@15doz]

As far as hairstyles go I’d like to see several race exclusive hairstyles were available to more races

[@kaizerslinkard4832]

They gotta put us against either safi jiva or fatalis for the crossover, we would decimate any rathalos teir monster

[@seraphlord]

you can already change glamour plates in sanctuary areas, you dont have to be in a city

[@MurakamiTenshi]

It amazes me how we got female hrothgar before we got hats for Viera 🤣🤣

[@-UwU-catgirl-]

At least viera have more than 5 hair options that aren’t locked to a specific face.

[@MushadX]

I honestly think had a thought that I’m endwalker our character would’ve died been immortalized and we would start like dawn trail having to make a new character our level and skills would carry over but we would start as a new character not the warriors of light but a regular adventurer

[@DaftGlassAlice]

13:52 for sure i call BS that hair can't work that way. They arent saying its a resource limit. But something more. Yet there are very basic mods that enable it for everything on any race.

[@PTFoxyMomma]

Deviljho would be an awesome monster to see in 14 lmao.

[@Corack4]

27:29 PHRASING!

[@KenFaytX]

Limsa absolutely sees more loads than anywhere else.

[@Etho_Sensei]

Mentioning the idea of a scion dying off I hope yshtola as she can't survive a third flow bs, her get the hauchefant

[@ceesay2010]

We want hats for viera ...

[@Brooke-dy7gx]

While I believe people shouldn't shy from killing off beloved/main characters simply out of fear of offending players/fans, I do believe it is horridly overdone. Taking your anime example, Meoni, I feel like there was a span of anime that not only abuse the Isekai concept but also the character death shock. I feel there are so many more shock factors than just killing someone off that could be utilized or, even closing out a character's role without needing a shock factor to motivate someone to enjoy the game. I've gotten to the point I find myself rolling my eyes every time a character dies (even some bad guys) sadly. T^T I want some spice but are we always going to beg for a character death to get us happy/bought in again? I also only found Haurche's death saddest because it wasn't just a single sacrifice for the bigger good but a sacrifice for the WoL themselves. Did it spur the story along? Yes, but it felt like something more at the end. Other deaths felt more like the 'big hero sacrificing for all, not just for one'. The headpiece/hair answer felt like a cop-out by Yoshi-P. I agree with you, Meoni! Why didn't they set it up for success in the first place for the coding? I'm a Viera main so I'm a bit jaded over it - ha. I did win a contest to get the cloud hair and can't wear it I realized (my fault for not paying attention) and I've held out to hope one day it would get fixed like some other hairstyles. I'm also really upset that they told us they'd make it so we could get more hairstyles and hats but I've yet to see it even in DT. Being able to wear the hats finally got me excited...then they made hats with visor items that now only the visor item shows up but still not the hat. It's annoying and frustrating. I guess my only benefit is that I hate 90% of the hats as is but the biggest killer? Not being able to wear helms as a tank main...

[@markhettenbach3141]

I just want to be able to set up a glamour plate in my private house..

[@toychristopher]

I'm afraid of 7.1 coming too soon. I still have to level my tank, melee, ranged, and caster to 100.

[@anteprs7908]

Too soon it been month on nothing to do

[@IOSALive]

Meoni, nice video keep up the amazing content

[@JeremyJ5040]

I feel like a Jhen Mohran trial would just be Bismark 2.0

[@iBlood360]

Impossible to add head gear to viera?! You just did in dt when you gave reaper job gear a helmet that works. Why is it so hard to apply that in to other gear???

[@Zakjuh]

I wonder if it was a mistranslation. Not to defend YoshiP, but clearly... it is possible? And they've been doing it in Endwalker. I wonder if he just said it takes more work to fit to Hrothgar and Viera (specifically Hrothgar I'd reckon) heads, and so he can't just port them across in an instant, and then the interviewer interpreted it as "it's not possible at this time"? That makes the most sense to me.

[@kirigherkins]

whiskerfant got whisked away to the afterlife real quick

[@silvertalon215]

I will never understand why they can't get hats to work on Viera/Hrothgar yet modders can get it to work just fine and for free.

[@REIL2LYFE]

Can't you already use glamour plates in all sanctuary areas. Wasn't that a change they made available back in EW. Am I trippin' 😂

[@TheDarkThunder]

Bring back Travanchet

[@ramon6783]

Would it be so Umbral Calamitous if someone just upfront told Yoshi-P that modders have been able to give Vieras and Hroths hairstyles and headgear and how their multi-million dollar dev team still can't do ot over 5 years later?

[@acolit1526]

They need to do an uno reverse and mske the wol the antagonist and the scions trying to stop them lol

[@katerinaquinn5482]

How's that for ironic they don't want to make the jobs too much alike because it makes it boring someone should have told that to the job ability team i.e gap closers every tank having the same ugly gap closer and only two of them do damage. FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER

[@Zakjuh]

Only two of them do damage because they belong to two jobs that already don't have busy rotations. Dark Knight and Gunbreaker are had the damage taken off their gap closer (which is a good thing. Keep utility abilities utility and don't make them glorified oGCD damage slop) because they had the busiest rotations of the four tanks, and therefore it wasn't seen as a problem to nix gap closer damage. The same isn't true of Paladin and Warrior, whose rotations are very sparse to begin with, so if you remove damage from their gap closers, that will make their rotations even less busy. I suspect they're moving towards removing damage from PLD and WAR gap closers rather than adding them back to DRK and GNB, but they want to make PLD and WAR rotations busier first so their rotations don't become super basic. The animation of the gap closers is a different topic. I agree it sucks to lose Plunge's animation.

[@relly8998]

I just modded Clouds Hair to Viera while watching this video. Yoshi P is straight up lying. It’s not impossible they just don’t care and don’t want to prioritize it but that’s not the right language to use when your company is trying to make money.

[@MushadX]

I was creating a she hill character and I was a little disappointed that no foot gear options for completely bare feet 🤷🏿‍♂️ I can understand small clothes being well ugly but necessary to maintain the e for everyone but feeeeeet more than a little disappointed there no booty slider it’s annoying to have to use the n2b bottoms to have a decent bum limitation on height as well I wanted to design a freren character she is short but the options and limitations are like blah my kitty is a short as she can be but she still looks tall on my screen I don’t like it it’s annoying I’m not a tech guy so I don’t understand I’m expecting a stellar blade crossover I kinda want to get into monster Hunter I just don’t have the time well you know what I have the time now I’m unemployed I never thought I would be so happy to be unemployed I finally have time to do things like farm and run the market board and craft and level everything to 100 maybe I’ll buy a large plot or ummm save for whatever housing they come up with I was looking at solution 9 like I’m expecting at least apartments

[@IDC-P5GHD4Z8J7]

All this talk about technical difficulties. Ok. If I order an outfit from your shop and its only accessible on a Viera or Hrothgar character and the helmet doesn’t work, should I get a reduced price? Since this excuse is so justifiably. Try putting your Zenny where your mouth is. (Or whatever currency they use over there who cares)

[@botdog78]

The hat thing is insane. " we can't fix it because of limitations " bro you made those limitations. It's your game you could have just done it differently. Also the hrothgar female only having 4 options for their hair is a travesty.

[@botdog78]

Also don't forget this is a monthly sub game. They have the money do do whatever they want with this game.

[@fazoodle7972]

When will you fix your servers yoshiP? This weekly ddos is getting old 😴

[@digitalash1603]

The "death" of Crystal Exarch literally shattered me. I've been crying for the whole evening after doing that quest line in post-Shadowbringers. I don't think I'll survive another Scion death. Please Yoshi P don't do that, we love our comrades too much to lose them...

[@Aptonoth]

Golden Raijang or Devilhijo.

[@206Zelda]

Excuses or no, I will happily forgo hats on my Viera and Hrothgar if I never have to speak to Wuk Lamat again and we don't get a fanf--I mean, story like Dawntrail again. 😂

[@Dieci-9]

I find it very concerning that that is what Yoshi-P and the other developers think about killing beloved characters. Of course, you can't kill characters left and right willy-nilly but, shock value aside, nobody ever dying kills the stakes for me. We always come out on top of the conflict of the expansion, the Scions always survive, etc.. I want to speak only for myself here because I don't want to assume what everyone else may think BUT I think that A LOT of players were ready to see some of the Scions die for good during Endwalker. The trailer with the Scions at the end, each saying a sentence, felt like they were all at risk of death...yet, the game was "NOPE" and resurrected all of them from unexistence 20 mins later (with a really nice scene, btw, our group bidding farewell to the Ascians we met and came to care about). It's not like that is bad but it's becoming more and more expected. To the point that unless we see someone get decapitated or shot in the head, we will always assume that they survive a fall, an explosion or if they're eyes are white after a slice, we will assume that they're just heavily wounded and that we will find them later on either healing or completely at full health. I hope, going forward, that the devs understand that they don't have to cater to everyone and that it's fine to let some key characters go for good, either by having them die or having them simply retire (like, not only the Arenvald way, but also just getting married or exploring other ventures that take them far far away from us and our adventuring).

[@kenzotenma9214]

Elden Ring DLC? No, Elden Ring xover

[@seluhir8820]

My biggest problem with the dawntrail story isn't that no characteers died, its that they didn't give us a chance to have a new cast take center stage. Like 2/3 of our 'team' at the end if not more were characters we brought with us. I was really hoping we'd get some time AWAY from the scions, as much as I like a lot of them, and build some new characters... and it just felt like more of the same. Bring one or two or three new characters to our new adventure, but keep the rest back for an expansion or two... give them time to grow off-screen. Notably I would've loved to have the twins stay in Garlemald. As a healer main and a mentor who queues as a healer... the monster hunter collab is miserable for me. I get matched into that in mentor roulette as a healer... and its the worst experience. Definitely my least favourite thing to get in mentor...

[@MaisieSqueak]

I personally cannot bear the distant enemy trope. One of the most heinous examples of that is World of Warcraft's first expansion (Burning Crusade) with Illadan... If you werent one of the few percentage of people that played raiding you NEVER saw him.

[@mollymillions6586]

What I am hearing more than anything is that SE wants to play it safe, which is disappointing. All the best moments in this game have been when they took big risks. Moments where well-liked characters died (actually, permanently died) are the some of the best in the game. DT was supposed to be "safe" and everyone hates the story. What should that tell you, Yoshi-P?

[@Zakjuh]

"DT was supposed to be safe" Putting a single annoying person in the limelight and giving her double the dialogue of literally the second most preponderant character in the expansion is safe? I don't consider that a very safe choice.

[@ColoxrI]

Honestly, I thought we were going to explore Dalmasca since we have Bozja and Ivalice. They were literally building up the journey to visit that specific land, even releasing Vieras and Hrothgars races that mostly populate the Great Golmore Jungle, but no... we had to go to Tural.

[@Ayayaaron62]

@@ColoxrI Bozja and Ivalice were some of my favorite content and I look forward to the next part, but it had been optional too. If (when) we get Dalmasca it will likely be larger patch content outside of the MSQ

[@verfluchteblume]

I hated Zenos. Dude was literally a stalker. Then the body swap thing… just no. I did not like that.

[@Horstveratu]

the whole hat thing is fkn stupid... how can they fk up so hard... one Modder did that stuff for free in their spare time, the fk is wrong with the devs?