Yoshi-P Interviews with the Japanese Press - Needs Translations

[Jamison]

This opinion is the vast minority, believe me.

Minority, *perhaps*, but vast is simply not true. Myself (and a huge number of people I know from XI, and to a lesser extent XIV) really enjoy and appreciate the way servers are set up cross-region now. Having interaction with people all over the world, as well as a sever that isn't dead except in your local primetime, are both nice benefits. The very last thing I want is for XIV to be more restrictive in when you can actually get things done due to a lack of people online.

[Kurokikaze]

A common misconception I would like to clear up here is that, while the word 'new' implies that everything will be changed, the old FFXIV and the new FFXIV are essentially the same games. The battle systems already in place and will be in place in the future, Grand Company, etc... it is all the feedback we've received from the playerbase that be used and be reflected in FFXIV is what I call 'new'. But on the other hand, when we do switch over to the new FFXIV, you can say that from a developer cost standpoint that some of the time we've dedicated into the old FFXIV will be wasted.
Take the UI, for example. Under the new FFXIV, the UI will be totally revamped and be replaced with the new UI engine. However, this doesn't mean that we're slacking off in improving the UI we have now lest we make our customers feel unsatisfied with our product. Therefore, we will continue to make improvements to the current UI by reflecting on customer feedback, and continue to provide updates. Things like that won't change.

This us exactly what I was thinking... some of the time they spend doing fixes to current shit will essentially be wasted because they will be doing it again for 2.0.

Thanks for the translations Stan.

[Hyan]

I hope they do it to gather feedback to be used later, rather than simply for the sake of appealing to the players of today.

Lol. I can imagine what the reaction would have been to the "no coding/programming" part this Jan./Feb. People would have flipped their shit. But it's no wonder why 1.18 took so godly long either now.

On the other hand I'm glad that they decided to keep this under wraps this long, but the idiots who thought the only things they are working on are the ones we see on the live client really would have needed that wake up call earlier.

[Sephiroth]

So what about people in the UK? When it comes to the English speaking population of XIV, most are NA. If you split regions, suddenly I have a hell of a lot less people to speak to or play with. I never play EU servers in any games because most of my friends or people I want to play with are NA.

If it's a choice between vastly better performance or a populated, regional server with people I can talk to or do stuff with, I'll pick the latter. I don't care how good the game is, I'm not playing it if there's no one to play with.

A UK server would be cool, I'd not have to stay up until retarded hours to raid with my NA LS. Something I'll not be able to do soon as I finally found a job. But it's unlikely I'd transfer to such a server and leave everyone behind.

[Kurokikaze]

Dying to see what this new version is going to feel/play like. Generally speaking about smoothness and response times. When I open an NPC vendor menu that should take no more than half a second to show up.

[Cayos]

I'm really looking forward to Sono/Ragn's interview, and finding out exactly how doctored that V2 pic is. I hope I'm pleasantly surprised. Also, can't wait until the E3 trailer. There's no way it's just going to be CGI, so we'll get to see what they've actually been doing for the last year and a half. June can not come soon enough.

Thanks for the translations Stan!

[Hyan]

I think in one of those interviews it was said that they have focused more on the shaders (and effects?) this time with the new engine. Basically what we can see from that pic.

[Cayos]

I think in one of those interviews it was said that they have focused more on the shaders (and effects?) this time with the new engine. Basically what we can see from that pic.

It just seems too good to be true honestly. I'm not going to believe it just yet, I just don't want to be let down.

Does anyone have any idea what time the Sono/Ragns interview is happening today?

[Burningthought]

So sorry. =P

Don't take it personally, it was like 5am for me, and I wanted to read all of the articles before going to bed, I was just being incredibly impatient.

[Grey Jorildyn]

What a load of bullshit.

Somewhat agree about the JP's though.

Which part is this is bullshit?

My philosophy is that the game is the common language between players. I don't need to type of talk to you to do menial tasks like grinding EXP. I'll party with anyone, anytime, as long as they know how to play the game.

Ever seen a NA shout "English ONLY PT"? Yeah, I didn't think so.

[Meko]

Dying to see what this new version is going to feel/play like. Generally speaking about smoothness and response times. When I open an NPC vendor menu that should take no more than half a second to show up.

IMO, this is make or break for the future of the game. Nobody wants a sluggish, crappy UI.

[Hyan]

Ever seen a NA shout "English ONLY PT"? Yeah, I didn't think so.

Ever seen an arab shout "Arabic ONLY PT"? Ever seen a French shout "French ONLY PT"? How about a German shouting "German ONLY PT"? Any other person with Asian origin than JP shouting for his language ONLY?

Even if some JP's are unable to work together with us, there exists quite a few more cultures than your culture and the JP culture, across all timezones. I especially like the fact that Asians plays early in the day along with JP's while EU is more active during the evening, while NA takes over during the night. Only JP's have ever given me trouble.

[Toth]

No 1.20 patch until December? Sadface

[Spira]

surprisingly optimistic about v2.0..

however in some ways this announcement gives them the excuse to not handle problems such as UI for now.. even tho they kinda have been, since it'll get entirely tossed out.

I guess it goes to show that if its not good enough.. then it'll go into the trash, so they really have to make 2.0 count

[Lordender]

So are they going to allow us to transfer to an english only server for free when it comes around? I would like to play on an english speaking server.

[Burningthought]

So are they going to allow us to transfer to an english only server for free when it comes around? I would like to play on an english speaking server.

I'm actually really confused by this, they are touting a worldless server, but there's still talks of server transfers and language specific servers. Which the fuck is it?

[Cayos]

Translation in OP Updated as of 12:38 PM EST

[Hyan]

I'm actually really confused by this, they are touting a worldless server, but there's still talks of server transfers and language specific servers. Which the fuck is it?

My interpretation is that there'll be server clusters, each having 20k active players or so online (instead of the theoretical 5k).

[Alkar]

surprisingly optimistic about v2.0..

however in some ways this announcement gives them the excuse to not handle problems such as UI for now.. even tho they kinda have been, since it'll get entirely tossed out.

I guess it goes to show that if its not good enough.. then it'll go into the trash, so they really have to make 2.0 count

Yoshi-P actually said that they'll continue to improve the UI even if it's getting replaced in 1 year.

[Spira]

yea.. thats why i say even tho they kinda have been

its like... building a 2nd boat while people are in the first one thats sinking, and making repairs in the gaping hole on the hull even tho it won't fully sink.
but they know when the 2nd one is ready, they'll abandon the first.

thats effort right there.