AzureRoxe: A lot of what he said confirms beyond the shadow of doubt he's learned NOTHING.

Someone in the comments there said it best: this is the second time he says people have less time nowadays, and games shouldn't keep them occupied for long, and I am starting to think that this is it for FFXIV.

The game is done. With actual FFXIV Mobile being a thing, they're 100% gonna start making FFXIV feel more like a mobile title.

FlameKing91: The interview shows that he hasn't learned a damn thing. Lol

yukolawlz: Thinking he can compete with hoyoverse and other Chinese giants in the mobile market is laughable.

akkidarkness4824: Dawntrail was written by the people who wrote the Beast Tribe quests and other side quests (like crafting quests).

It is so painfully obvious, I'm surprised no one got fired for the level of actual lack of quality. It was abysmal.

mareofstature: Look the moment they released the mobile version I knew exactly where this was headed. They are going to funnel proceeds from the main game into the mobile version until enough players leave so they can shut down the servers.

stephanbalaur4828: as someone who has been subbed since the launch of ARR, yesterday I unsubbed. Going to lose a large house, etc. But im exhausted, in the past 2 years ive played maybe a grand total of 40 hours. It hurts my heart to see what they have done to ff14. Its frustrating and sad but I cant deal with it anymore.

mocabunn: Yoshida should retire already. Just admit you are incapable of managing a project of this magnitude, you are a failure and retire with your golden parachute.

TheJackomad: summer vacation is over now killed me

sindur3446: So let me get this straight: The room temperature IQ director whose fingers weight more than his cranium thanks to trying to be the weirder of the ten rings told everyone to go play other games, and is just now realizing his game has to compete with those other games?

PunkFiddler: But we already have the mobile game already. Imagine paying a sub to play a game on your mobile phone... kinda expensive for a very small screen. Haha

Dracounguis: Nothing would make me flee this game faster than them making it like a mobile game.

Kanaleah: If Yoshi P thinks he can survive by slipping into the mobile market, he's in for a rude awakening. The pace of Genshin and Wuthering Waves updates (six weeks, rather than 4-5 months) is far too high for CBU3, and that is what the market has come to expect. Both games may as well get a new "class/job" with every patch too. How is CBU3 ever going to feed that market at the pace they update their games? And hasn't SE been trying and failing at this for over a decade now?

Knmso: They should just delete the whole game and port it to mobile. They have already dumbed the classes down so much they may as well just give up on being a pc game!

trodune: Hasn’t se shuttered like all of thier mobile games and this point?

tinyblackmage: It’s a goner… YoshiOneTrickPony is a joke. It’s apparent now he ONLY knows how to COPY and dumb shit down (that’s how he did ARR)

He needs to go.

Dracounguis: Seems like lately they put more of the unique glamour sets on the PVP 'battle pass'

AShadowedGamer: he will end his career with SE if he pushes the mobile narrative lol maybe that would be a good thing for us his teams have already shown they don't need him on many occasions i would rather we have his teams free to design and develop then to suffer another 4 years of his incompetence and narcissism

LyohKoh: Noooo.... this is genuinely distressing. I really am walking away from Square Enix. No more Final Fantasy, no more Kingdom Hearts. No more Nier. I literally this morning watched a video on the intro to 14 1.0, and i was so impressed by the camera angles, how beautiful the world looked. I just can't imagine we are ever, EVER getting this level of care and detail again. And i don't mean just SE, i think the game industry is well and truly dead. Indie games will keep my love of gaming alive, but I've given up hope of ever getting good things from AAA ever again

lolcat5303: Hasn't it already got a mobile version? I'm pretty sure their break glass option will be to make that the main version of the game.

aster4jaden: Well, he just killed FFXIV before could "rebirth" it.

BlacklusterPally: btw I'm still stuttering by the delusion from that lego guy on the yesterday preach video, that pretended that raid boss design is good

TyX25: Wuk story should have ended at the end of the first 1/2 of 7.0. Kyrle should have been the focus for the rest of the patch. Need proof, look at the Alliance leaders, they only appear when they're needed.

Zyart: This interview is definitive proof of what we've been saying for a decade. They want to design the MMO for people who shouldn't be playing MMOs. "Not enough time to clear three bosses." That takes 15 bloody minutes if your party has a pulse. That's who you're designing the game for. Bite me, Yappy P.

mr.playthrough3306: Complacent is a disease. How the mighty have fallen.

ChannelRaznoff: Actually, that might be an upgrade since expectations for those games are fully voiced MSQ, unique animations in cinematics, a 6 week patch cycle, weekly events, and better character designs among other things.....

Also, I will continue to enjoy playing my mobile games, Wuthering Waves and Another Eden. Way better than modern MMOs.

idc2120: The amount of glazing is unreal. 8.0 really will make or break.

shaytepes7351: Huh, weird.

I have been called crazy when this downfall started that they were killing PC for the the mobile.

Being right sometimes doesn't feel good.

Dec 11 2025

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