FFXIV is “story-driven” like a TV show, says director Naoki Yoshida

Last Fantasy XIV stays my most-played MMORPG, as I’ve poured hundreds of hours into my Warrior of Mild’s journey throughout Eorzea so far. The group is unparalleled, with Final Fantasy XIV‘s builders’ deep involvement with gamers’ hopes for the sport and suggestions. Naoki “Yoshi-P” Yoshida, the director of FFXIV, lately took half within the sport’s iconic Fan Pageant 2023 showcase. On the occasion, Yoshi-P and Sq. Enix revealed Last Fantasy XIV’s extremely anticipated 7.0 enlargement, Dawntrail.

Following the current Final Fantasy XIV Dawntrail reveal, Yoshi-P sat down for a press convention the place he mentioned what cultures impressed the upcoming enlargement and the way the brand new options will slot in following the sport’s previous story occasions. One vital analogy stood out when Yoshi-P in contrast FFXIV to a tv sequence after being requested about which Dawntrail options will assist outdated gamers get again into the sport or deliver new gamers to the enlargement’s content material.

When requested how new gamers can keep away from “getting misplaced within the present lore and get up-to-date to play Dawntrail,” the director acknowledged that this can be a query the MMO’s builders obtain at each enlargement’s reveal. Yoshi-P responded that “even when we launch an enlargement pack, our outdated content material isn’t actually outdated.” He known as FFXIV “very story-driven,” saying that the devs “proceed to replace it and develop our content material.”

Yoshi-P associated FFXIV to a TV present, saying that Dawntrail is sort of a later season and “individuals might wish to bounce into the most recent season.” Regardless of this want, gamers ought to catch themselves up by experiencing the entire sport’s earlier expansions. To attempt to encourage gamers to play by every earlier “season” or storyline, Yoshi-P said that the devs have “made the earliest seasons simple to get into.” The overhauled graphics and dye slots revealed at Fan Fest ought to positively assist.

This wasn’t the one point out of TV reveals throughout the press conference although, because the director was requested a couple of potential FFXIV anime adaptation. Yoshi-P mentioned that he would “like to have a Last Fantasy XIV sequence” on tv, but additionally said that he doesn’t suppose he can “squeeze in being a director of a TV sequence” between his different roles with Sq. Enix. I’m hopeful that we’ll at some point be capable to expertise the beloved MMO’s in depth story as one other medium, however till then the sport itself has greater than sufficient cutscene content material to get pleasure from.

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