Next 3 Expansion Stories Already Decided - Gamesight Interview w/ Yoshi-P At KR Fan Fest 

Ah yes, the critically acclaimed MMORPG, Papan 14

When I'm writing long stories, I'll often have a general outline covering major events, and then divide those major stories into different "books." Then I'll go into each book, and work on the connective tissue and character developments between each major event. Then I'll start writing specific chapters. If I had to guess, this is more or less where they're at. They know the next 3 expansions are (for example) Meracydia, #shard, big Source event. But the individual stories, B plot, etc, likely aren't set in stone yet, and they'll probably make adjustments to those based on player response. Such as how much we see characters like Wuk, Erenville, or Zero, vs the scions, vs new characters.

This is great to hear. They dont need to know the entire details of all of the expansions. Its good to hear they know what they want to do and so they can integrate the expansions better

15:51 - So the rest of the translation was good (or you reinterpreted it correctly) but here Yoshida was saying that we should look forward to changes in our jobs (classes) beyond what we could imagine. Not about Yoshida's role as a game director.

PaPan is the Korean way of writing FF. So PaPan14 = FFXIV

ffxiv in korean: 파이널 판타지 14 (Paineol Pantaji) = shortened into Pa-pan 14

Casual feedback should be listened too, arguably one of the things the game lacks more in terms of content to do during big patches is casual content that you can join for like an hour and get some progress, as the normal tier of raid is more than completed and casuals dont do savage nor max their crafters they care about the game but sometimes diferent things . Still there is things that casual and hardcore players agree, at least in the discords i am, while we can disagree in things like dificulty or complexity i have seen everyone agree on things like the island being a disapoitment, jobs in the same rol feel too similar at times, some jobs just feel weird or boring right now, or that with the longer patches or the seasonal events being mediocre at best for a paid mmo.

Give us more to do in early expansion patches. The raid isnt enough.

I love hearing about how they move expansions around. It was always interesting to me to hear that "Endwalker" was originally supposed to be 7.00, but he didn't want to drag zodiark and hyd out any longer and brought it up to 6.00 instead.

I really think they should have tackled job identity THEN battle content, not the other way around. The way they're doing it just makes the job identity wait worse, while new battle encounters are new battle encounters and so less to complain about. So it's like we're stuck with jobs they already KNOW are bad for another 2 years.

They're doing the world soul saga!

We already knew this. He said before DT even came out that he ad the ideas for the next few expansions after DT

I just hope Dawntrail was an anomaly and the MSQ quality improves drastically from here. If not, I don't really care how many stories they have planned.

I don't know why but I have a feeling that the story will not be as good. Judging from the fact Square Enix has been consulting and getting writing done from Sweet Baby Inc, and just recently removed themselves from SBI's clientele, I'd say this boat is rocky for me. I truly hope my comment ages like milk though.

Wait is it right that they were originally going to do ShB's before SB? Because I always heard that they were originally going to do SB before HW which is why there's all the SB emphasis in post ARR? Were they really about to push SB even further out?

"[...] the Black Mage's dealing ability was supposed to be stronger". I *seriously* doubt that Yoshi-P meant "stronger -than Pictomancer-", especially given what he's said about the intention for new jobs to be stronger. The text isn't completely clear, sure, but I interpret it as Black Mage was intended to be stronger than it turned out, though still below Pictomancer while Picto's still the shiny new thing.

I still don’t like how we lost spineshatter dive

15:00 - "That's because they care more...that's the feedback that matters" - No. And I love ya, Haps, but this is wrong. Other players ALSO CARE, and their feedback ALSO MATTERS. Hardcore people tend to be more mechanically focused and in depth with their feedback, but that doesn't mean they're the only people who have insight, nor does it mean only their positions should be heard as "mattering" vs others. Not everyone's articulate, but that doesn't mean their feedback isn't highly relevant.

For some reason they remove content and call it simplifying the game. WHY?!

Weird, the algorithm did not show me this one.

If only blue mage was in 14

i feel the same with dragoon. its feels super shitty to play now

Funny you covered this but not the Australian interview where Yoshi P begged players not to retire, a quick 180 from his old go play other games statement.

When Yoshi said that he has the stories already decided, I guess something written on a napkin technically counts.

please less cutscene word soup, and more telling story during gameplay... it's just not fun logging on, watching 2 hours of cutscenes and logging off when not caught up after all these years

Gonna call BS on this one. There’s no hook in DT’s story that made me think “I want to see where this leads in 6-7 years!”. If there’s some direction they’re wanting to go in then it’s absolutely critical they start giving it to us in the next patch.

We need content that everyone can enjoy and will last a long time to complete like Eureka or Bozja. Not these patches that take a day to complete and you're left with nothing else to do lol.

What does the Tattoo on Sphenes back mean?

Been playing FFXIV since hward. They got lazy on story content for dawn trail, dropped the ball.

Oh boy, more Wuklamaxxing

Iv already stop playing. Probably won’t pick it back up again until next expansion.

Just PUH-LEASE bring back the main writer from Shadowbringers and Endwalker. I don´t think this game can survive another post EW and Dawntrail...

Just need better content, and of course story beats. We need like sub-classes or new systems.

Jfc Happy, please stop with the 'only raiders' matter mentality. If that were the case the game wouldn't be sitting at the lowest ratings this game had ever had

Next three choices. "SE scrambles to keep the player base" need money

Hopefully the next ones are better than post EW / base DT Edited to add "base" DT because lissencephalic ones thought I was talking about something that hasn't released.

This literally contradicts every other interview from yoshiP. During the build up to 7.0, he said many times that they don’t know what the next 10 year arc will be. That they need to create threads to pull on. I doubt that’s changed

Please stop with this "hardcore players are the only feedback that matters" mentality, Happy. It's toxic. Your content is often great but you have this tunnel vision that only the opinions of raiders matter. To be honest, the opinions of players on the extremes should be ignored actually. The ultrahardcore elite 1% World First Raiders and the super-casual crowd who can't even be bothered to run content without the help of Trusts? Their opinions don't matter because they skew the data too wildly. Hardcore players won't be satisifed until every piece of content is savage-tier difficulty, and likewise ultracasuals won't be happy til they can just click one button and complete everything with no effort. Those two extremes cancel each other out, and therefore they don't matter in the grand scheme of what's best for this game.

So, another decade of being a babysitter, because EW/DT wasn't bad enough LOL They better bring in some new writers. I don't know if I can stand being a babysitter for 3 expansions in a row. It's a bit old.

It'll never happen, but XIV needs to shake up their endgame patterns. They should reconsider bringing back the stat materia (STR/VIT/MND, etc) but limit it to ONE slot on any gear. Merit points to allow us to augment our jobs. This will be beneficial for endgame for a little extra edge. Or gear augmentation where you can reroll gear for a boost to random stats/weaponskills. Have that cost poetics or second set of tomes per even patch where it would incentivize playing to farm tomes for more rerolls. Relic weapons should be closer in ilvl to savage weapons with each patch, but with a longer set of objectives to justify work = reward. Like clearing a current EX trial for a key item for upgrade also clearing unreal for another key item to boost the ilvl as something optional. This wouldn't negate the new open world content where we normally get relics, but it would be a step to get more people to do EX/Unreal.

Although AI gets a lot of hate, ChatGPT does a pretty good job with translation via copying and pasting the article and saying "translate this from korean to english:" The title (according to ChatGPT): "Yoshida Naoki P/D: 'With the story we are preparing, Final Fantasy 14 can last for 20 years.'" Though I am not sure how completely accurate it is, it cannot be worse than Google Translate.

Okay, well I don't what Black Mages you're talking to but now that the dust has settled, most of the Black Mages I know still main the job. It was always a vocal minority that didn't like the changes. The problem is that they've lost their identity and need to be back on top for DPS. Picto just brings too much else to the table to be higher than them, and if FRU has any downtime at all, Picto is going to go right back to being insanely strong.

3:04 XD

3 expansions from now and tombstones will still be capped at 450, jobs will be even more homogenized than the already are, and formulaic release schedules... boring

I've played all of present DT content so far and I'm not pleased with it. Most of it was uninterruptable cutscenes or lackluster interaction with repetitive dialogue from a very small selection of characters that got stretched awkwardly between a set of dungeons (even a One Piece filler episode is more satisfying; this felt like Dragon Ball Super filler). It wasn't satisfying; it was tedious. The hardcore players aren't happy (classes feel homogenized), most of the casuals aren't happy (having to rely on older content to keep them busy, which takes the shine off appeal), and the ones that didn't care for FFXIV until DT dropped and suddenly gave it glowing reviews are never happy with the game unless certain criteria are met, and if this is considered a flop, this angle may not be approached again and that selection of players will ultimately quit to go play something else. They (the team) missed the mark on the opening of this expansion; they know this. I'm hoping that whatever Mr. Yoshi meant by his hint at already having the future written work for the next expansions already laid out means that the team can correct what they missed with DT and try to adopt the execution that made Shadowbringer so popular. I want to empathize with Mr. Yoshi, who has delivered incredible works before, and acknowledge that he was split between 16 and 14 and it's why DT felt the way it did at launch. It was a fumble, but it can be improved upon. We don't need "new direction"; we need stability and growth. I for one suggested using the 'dead zone of DT' [avoiding the name for spoiler consideration] and repurposing it to a Gold Saucer 2.0 that would make it feel like an extension of the carnival dungeon we got introduced to. Give it a reason to exist; give us a reason to dig deeper into shallow zones. It's one suggestion, but it at least offers more.

Please bring back the ascians has long has they were around they where more interesting than dt was this one is god shit big time

1.0 was and will always be better. the game is good but after beating xpac. its mindless and pointless. content is too boring

Can't wait to speak to Wuk Lamat for another 3 Expansions!