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Siliconera posted a translation of this interview from the Korean site Game Focus.
Some highlights:
Are MMORPGs dead?
Final Fantasy XIV, the MMORPG for Beginners
Are there any new games you’d like to make?
Reboot me if old.
Some highlights:
Are MMORPGs dead?
Yoshi-P’s personal opinion is that MMORPGs aren’t dead but they’re just taking a break.
Yoshi-P says that playing video games is more common with his generation than it was for the generation before that. He believes that when he gets old, we’ll be in an era where playing games will become more of a natural thing.
Final Fantasy XIV, the MMORPG for Beginners
Final Fantasy XIV has strong characteristics going on, but it’s also important to make it into a game that puts consideration into casual gamers.
It’s often said that Final Fantasy XIV has a lot of female players, but they never made it with the thought of adding more female players.
Final Fantasy XIV doesn’t have many things that would leave a sour taste to female players.
Yoshi-P, who was once a core gamer, never cared for equipment that shows too much skin.
He says that since people have an image that online games are dominated by male players, there are many that think adding sexy female characters and a bunch of risqué equipment would make it popular.
He feels that this is something that the makers just assume on their own, and believes that if female gamers see some of these equipment, some of them might think “what the heck is this?”
MMORPGs are enjoyed by people of various age and gender, so he feels that they need to do the opposite of catering it towards just a specific category of players.
Are there any new games you’d like to make?
Yoshi-P works both as a producer and director, but he would like to quit being a producer as soon as possible.
One issue is that there isn’t anyone who would say “hey, I’ll be the producer, so you can switch out, Yoshida.” He also says that he has more motivation for Final Fantasy XIV than anyone else.
Forcing himself to work is what he considers a discourtesy to the players. He believes that since he’s the most motivated of all, he must work as the producer for now.
There are many games that switch out producers and directors for each new expansion pack, but Yoshi-P says that there’s still much more he’d like to do with Final Fantasy XIV.
And until he does everything he wants to do for Final Fantasy XIV, his motivation for it isn’t going anywhere.
Read the rest here: http://www.siliconera.com/2016/12/0...-decline-mmorpgs-female-players-future-plans/Personally speaking, Yoshida has plans for about four games that he’d like to make, but he’ll work on those once he gets a little older.
Reboot me if old.