That's true Love.

Yoshi-P understands English well enough, the translator is there just to avoid any small confusions from the few words he might not understand due to being British/American /etc. versions of English. If you watch his face you see he clearly understands what Preach is saying before getting the translation.

@@katnerd6712 i could also be wrong, but its my understanding japanese companies impose these kinds of translators to avoid any PR nightmares due to misunderstandings anyway.

@@krazyito You're probably right. But, I think Yoshi-P probably suffers from a typical trait many Japanese have. He knows English decently, but isn't satisfied with his ability to speak it. The gray haired gentleman we see occasionally isn't a translator he's one of the devs or the head of community management and he almost never uses a translator. His English is pretty flawless, though :)

thats not a yoshiP thing, thats just how SE is structured after 2019. There were other precursor organizations names (10 Product Development Divisions, into 12 Business Divisions) which got consolidated into the 5 current Creative Business Units. CBU 1 is single player FF games and Kingdom Hearts and SaGa CBU 2 is Dragon Quest, off-franchise spinoffs (Bravely, Octopath), Nier and arcade games CBU 3 is the MMO unit (ff11, 14, dq10) CBU 4 is remasters and ports and the Mana series CBU 5 is gacha games.

​@@oleub23 The names are changed now, for example Creative Business Unit III, became Creative Studio III

​@@oleub23 that's really interesting, thanks for sharing!

It is just how Japanese departments are structured/named traditionally, you'll have something like General Office 1, General Office 2, Business Department 1, Business Dept 2, etc etc.

In my eyes, everything about the dungeon bosses are perfect as they are. It's just that the trash mobs in between are immensely brain-dead difficulty and only require you to do AOE spams, not even needing to use a good chunk of your rotation. Plus the enemy AOE's are still ARR-level basic, you'd wonder why they even have them if they're not going to be anything more than HP sponges before you're allowed to fight a boss. I wouldn't mind the pure hallway linearity if anything between the bosses was actually interesting, but it rarely is outside of something as visually insane as the base expansion finale dungeons. Make the trash mobs do SOMETHING interesting besides being "a pack of five enemies that auto-attack and do one small circle every 30 seconds." That's why I remember the original Copperbell Mines where one of the "bosses" was an actual puzzle as opposed to literally EVERY Endwalker patch dungeon. When I saw one of them was "Lunar Subterrane" I was like "hell yes that grueling gauntlet at the end of 4" and it was like 5 minutes of hallway then 10 minutes of flashback hallway which simultaneously kills the hype of those memories when it's a convenient hallway with now even EASIER trash mobs because we have an NPC helping us even outside Trusts. I'm no longer excited for the main story dungeons. And I get that it's because they're designed to be the short easy thing people can easily devote time to, but my problem is not with their length or boss difficulty, it's them being boring for 67% of it.

with rare exception, most of the people given interview opportunities were restricted to asking questions directly related to information previewed at the media tour.

As someone with 8 full retainers from gathering and crafting, I still can't get over how glorious it is to automatically transfer duplicate items. It's the most useful quality of life improvement I can think of.

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those are interviews with strict outlines to talk about. Mike means free to talk type interviews

Omg wow

Meoni got an interview with Shenpai, so it was not the same as Preach getting the full 45min head to head.

They cannot keep adding jobs forever. It’ll be difficult to decide what route to go when they can no longer sustain it, but not only would it become overwhelming for players, the job design, balancing, and gear design load would become extremely high on the devs. It’s already high to the point where they can’t do job quests anymore

@@Tabbycat2701 That's valid, I guess you do reach a point where it's unsustainable. They've done a good job so far, so they deserve some trust in how the proceed... and I guess you could make the argument that a lot of other games fall into the pvp versus pve balance, and at least that's not anything to worry about in ffxiv since they are totally different skills and everything.

You…….stuck with wow after Shadowlands? Wow, that’s pretty much the opposite of most players, including myself (although I’ve played both FF11 and FF14 from launch, I’ve also played Wow from launch in 2004 through most expansions except Dragonflight).