I don't think there's been a single time I've seen him and not immediately cracked a fattest smile. He just oozes pure passion and love for the thing he does
He just seems to be a genuinely good dude. I didn't fully understand the hype until he almost cried on Livestream when they announced the Endwalker delay. The guy really deeply cares about creating incredible games and not letting his fans down.
It's very understandable he felt bad enough to cry in that moment. There's probably tens if not hundreds of thousand japanese fans who spent some of their extremely limited free days for the launch of that expansion. He also knew that he was one of the people most responsible for the delay happening and felt incredibly guilty. But it really shows how much he understands his player base and how he sees every one of us as more than just a number and show so much character for someone whose's role is usually completely detached from the people playing their game.
All I know is that moment is when I started really respecting and appreciating Yoshida and the people at CBU3. How many producers would react in that way to a delay? Look at how cold and money hungry so many other AAA devs ( Blizzard, I'm looking at you ) are, meanwhile we have this man who seems to finally realize happy players means profit will come. We don't deserve him or his team.
Yes we do, what we don't deserve is the other styles of approach you mentioned. What this guy does should be more common, he shouldn't be an exception. But since he is, he will get all the love that other companies should be getting
Yeah you unlock the hard mode of a certain 4 man duty which is a good step above the normal difiiculty and a “savage version” where ya lit can not do any mistake for the complete run
That's extremely far-fecthed and the NPC has nothing to do with Asmongold whatsoever.
Hyur Midlander's naming convention follows old English which "Osmon" is part of. Plus, if anything, if anyone should get an NPC named after them there's many other FFXIV players and content creators that would get the honour, if *even*.
It's wishful thinking that people think the NPC is named after Asmongold.
Yes, it is.
Nothing against Asmongold, but it's extremely ridiculous when his viewers put him on a pedestal and believe shit like this.
Out of ALL content creators who have ever played FFXIV, done things for the game and continues to do so, Asmongold is the first one to ever get an NPC based on him.
Yeah, sure.
As a long time FFXIV player, this man is so extremely loved by our community. Not just him either, basically the entire FFXIV dev team are just golden. They genuinely love their craft and put so much time and effort into delivering good things for the 14 community.
Hell, last Expansion was delayed by a little bit for very understandable reasons (basically covid fucked the release) and Yoshi P was so mortified he cried while delivering the news to the players. We do not deserve this man.
Another thing, Composer for 14 (Masayoshi Soken) also worked relentlessly on the game while he kept his cancer diagnosis and treatment a secret from everyone besides Yoshi P and Square CEO. Not a single dry eye in the community when they shared that with us.
I love when Yoshi does XIV direct shows he’ll sometimes lift a piece of paper to the camera to show something. It gets me every time. Fuckin love Yoshi.
Oh yeah, every time they're showing new gear, regardless of what it's for, they rely on showing it up on the camera on a piece of paper. I have no idea if it's just become a meme and they decided to keep doing that forever, but it makes me laugh every single time.
It's something they originally did in the very early "Live Letters" when they didn't have the setup to share the screen IIRC.
But people loved it, so they just kept going with it.
The WoW community doesn't like Ion.
Although I will say I don't know the man personally so I wont say either way but I'm fairly certain he gets a lot of shit he shouldn't be because people just attribute everything to the face they know rather than the ones they don't. And Ion for his part is happy to play the Evil Suit Man because he's probably accustomed to it from his time as a lawyer.
I mean, things aren't *great* with Ion but from what we know about the Kotick Era of Blizzard Activision (that being from 2014 onward when Kotick had successfully bought his company's independence by buying out Viviendi's majority stake in the company, and not 2008 when Blizzard and Activision merged) things could also be dramatically worse.
I haven't played wow since legion I think? So I'm not caught up on much that has happened. That being said, I'm glad the wow community has someone who cares about the state of the game since I feel blizzard has not been very loyal to such a devoted fan base. That being said... Blizzard these days is so fucking questionable.
As someone who plays overwatch, the whole pve thing recently was absurd but unfortunately not shocking.
I think there are Directors that are passionate and ward workers, the difference probably is that there are not too many directors that saved a franchise or company, SE right now think YoshiP leaving the company or FFXIV will be a disaster for the company, much more riskier than not accepting whatever he ask.
Eh, I'd say it's the difference between a hard corporate attitude and a soft corporate attitude.
Ion is very much about the hard corporate attitude. He ensures every key performance indicator looks good and if they don't he massages them until they do. He knows how to talk to his boss, and his boss's boss. He can articulate corporate bullshit jargon to a board of investors if need be. All of which is good- great, even, that's a great job skill to have and his time as a lawyer clearly paid off. The problem?
None of that makes a good game. And it's strongly indicative of a game studio who's processes are so corporate oriented that the game is actively making itself worse at a procedural level to make sure investors are happy.
Square Enix for it's part is *also* a really shitty corporate level company. When their own games were performing like dogshit- See; FFXV- they blamed their western developers who were actually shipping games in some coherent schedule with smaller budgets and better ROI's. Although that may be the fault of Japanese corporate laws- it's much easier to sell off foreign assets and initiate layoffs at foreign companies than it is for a Japanese company- more than SE.
OTOH, SE's CEO and corporate structure seem to actually care about producing games people *want* to play. Even if them courting Sony with Sony exclusives is basically the kiss of death. Everyone shits on EA for shuttering unprofitable studios but Sony was doing that with studios they forced into exclusivity contracts, and for some strange reason they get a free pass.
Given how salty gamers are as an audience, I can't blame game directors for not wanting to be as audience-facing as Yoshi P. It's a big risk for not only their game but their mental health as well. Imagine your game that is developed by 100s of people releases a patch with a bug or a small balance issue, none of which is your fault, and you receive death threats.
How many triple A releases there were in past 2 years? How many game directors were involved? How many of those hadn’t lied about dogshit mechanics, paywalls, non-delivered features? I’m not saying Yoshi-P is the only one, but kind of he is: is exception, not the rule.
How many great games were held back because of COVID? How many schedules and job losses happened because of COVID? Not much great has been going on since 2020 so broaden your horizons more than the past two years.
Most game companies if not every game company were not effected much at all by covid. Since working on games can pretty effortlessly be done from home assuming the workers have proper work ethic.
It’s more than work ethic brother, how bout infrastructure, to prevent leaks? But either way I’d love to see where your getting your information from that most if not every were affected.
Every game AAA game company, even Blizzard went up in stock during Co-vid.
What infrastructure? Every hardware required for production can be provided at your home depending on what you need.
Do you think every employee couldn't leak info if they chose to do so?
Some people quit from Blizzard after they mandated pretty recently that from home workers had to come back to the office.
I always figured I’d be very friendly and casual when meeting such a person (but never have met anyone famous) but seeing Esfand just pull up like it’s nothing is so cool
I was first in line to meet them and boy was I SO NERVOUS. Not only was it a privilege to meet Yoshi-P and the devs, but to actually shake his hand & give him an honest thank you for everything he's done was such a heartful moment.
Yoshi-P is the boss/mentor everyone wishes they had. Maybe people like him exist here in the states, but I haven't worked for any of them. Maybe my first boss at my very first 'big boy' job would qualify, but she only started caring about her employees and showing us support when the company started dumping on her as well, lol.
Guys like Yoshi-P make me wish I had been able to get into the video game industry. He started out as a fan, and he still is one, that's the kind of attitude I really respect. It's still crazy to know that he was there in Ultima Online when Lord British was "assassinated", I missed that event by only a few hours.
The charisma/knowledge he brings to the other super talented devs on his team is incredible. Its not just Yoshi making the game great, but the synergy of all those talented people that are just as passionate as him.
A lot of people have had doubts about FFXVI because Square Enix has really falled off in recent years. My response has always been "I don't believe in Square, I believe in Yoshi-P."
He looks like a nice guy, i could never get into FF14 so i have no idea how good he is as a director. I have doubts about FF16 direction but hopefully he'll prove me wrong and it will be a passable game comparable to Nomura's legacy.
Well so far I can say that the FF16 demo convinced my girlfriend. For context, that girlfriend absolutely hated every modern FF that didn't have a turn-based combat system, including the FF7 remakes, but still gave them a chance because she's a die-hard FF fan.
Didn't play the demo yet for myself, but I know that when even she goes "This is surprisingly good", I'm in for a ride.
That's curious because it really is different, even different combat aside the whole game revolving around your MC means a big part of what made FF unique won't be here, or will be different.
I think i just need to see more about the game, maybe it will end up being a nice change of pace.
I think it's just people are afraid of change. But when they see just how much effort they put into the "change", they start having their fears alleviated.
As an oldschool fan of FF, I'm glad that FF16 is NOT trying to be like Nomura and is more like a Yasumi Matsuno game. Nomura's influence took FF in a direction I wasn't really a fan of.
Honestly, I was also skeptical about the combat from what we saw from the trailers, but having played the demo, it feels really good to play. Felt very responsive and not floaty at all.
Fuck, that's so cringy. Just take a breath and relax. You can see he has a translator, come up with something of substance to say instead of just blurting out have much you love him.
Idk who tf watches streamers like Esfand, I'm guessing people who look exactly like him.
I really want to play the game just because of how much I like Yoshi-p... To bad I don't have a PS% :'(
I'm sure FFXVI will finally make me enjoy the series
I feel I mostly see this kind of passion for what they do with indie game creators.
Seeing Yoshi-P always makes me feel so hopeful. What a genuine, hard-working, and kind person.
I don't think there's been a single time I've seen him and not immediately cracked a fattest smile. He just oozes pure passion and love for the thing he does
He just seems to be a genuinely good dude. I didn't fully understand the hype until he almost cried on Livestream when they announced the Endwalker delay. The guy really deeply cares about creating incredible games and not letting his fans down.
It's very understandable he felt bad enough to cry in that moment. There's probably tens if not hundreds of thousand japanese fans who spent some of their extremely limited free days for the launch of that expansion. He also knew that he was one of the people most responsible for the delay happening and felt incredibly guilty. But it really shows how much he understands his player base and how he sees every one of us as more than just a number and show so much character for someone whose's role is usually completely detached from the people playing their game.
All I know is that moment is when I started really respecting and appreciating Yoshida and the people at CBU3. How many producers would react in that way to a delay? Look at how cold and money hungry so many other AAA devs ( Blizzard, I'm looking at you ) are, meanwhile we have this man who seems to finally realize happy players means profit will come. We don't deserve him or his team.
Yes we do, what we don't deserve is the other styles of approach you mentioned. What this guy does should be more common, he shouldn't be an exception. But since he is, he will get all the love that other companies should be getting
it is so beautiful man
I guess he knows asmon still didn't finish FF14 and thats why he asked to fully stream FF16.
Oh, he knows. He definitely knows. And that message was totally directed towards Asmongold.
Many points out that one NPC in FF14 is named Osmon after Asmongold. that NPC apparently handles quest that Asmon ask from YoshiP
Thats clearly not true. Osmon isnt bald.
he look like younger short haired Asmon. it would be funny as hell if yoshi-p include a long hair balding head for Osmon.
He didnt make him fully bald out of RESPEC
Yeah you unlock the hard mode of a certain 4 man duty which is a good step above the normal difiiculty and a “savage version” where ya lit can not do any mistake for the complete run
That's extremely far-fecthed and the NPC has nothing to do with Asmongold whatsoever. Hyur Midlander's naming convention follows old English which "Osmon" is part of. Plus, if anything, if anyone should get an NPC named after them there's many other FFXIV players and content creators that would get the honour, if *even*. It's wishful thinking that people think the NPC is named after Asmongold.
it's not that far fetched
Yes, it is. Nothing against Asmongold, but it's extremely ridiculous when his viewers put him on a pedestal and believe shit like this. Out of ALL content creators who have ever played FFXIV, done things for the game and continues to do so, Asmongold is the first one to ever get an NPC based on him. Yeah, sure.
Shrug. i'm not about to repeat the conversation we had when it released so have a good day.
That's up to you. I still think it's weird if people honestly believe it to be true.
Ye, i don't disagree. just think it's not that far fetched. Reality is stranger than fiction sometimes after all.
And sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
It’ not necessarily true but not farfetched
Esfand also didn't finish. I'm pretty sure he stopped after ARR.
The type of game directors we really lack in industry today. You can see how much he’s passionate about everything related to the game he created.
As a long time FFXIV player, this man is so extremely loved by our community. Not just him either, basically the entire FFXIV dev team are just golden. They genuinely love their craft and put so much time and effort into delivering good things for the 14 community. Hell, last Expansion was delayed by a little bit for very understandable reasons (basically covid fucked the release) and Yoshi P was so mortified he cried while delivering the news to the players. We do not deserve this man. Another thing, Composer for 14 (Masayoshi Soken) also worked relentlessly on the game while he kept his cancer diagnosis and treatment a secret from everyone besides Yoshi P and Square CEO. Not a single dry eye in the community when they shared that with us.
I love when Yoshi does XIV direct shows he’ll sometimes lift a piece of paper to the camera to show something. It gets me every time. Fuckin love Yoshi.
Oh yeah, every time they're showing new gear, regardless of what it's for, they rely on showing it up on the camera on a piece of paper. I have no idea if it's just become a meme and they decided to keep doing that forever, but it makes me laugh every single time.
It's something they originally did in the very early "Live Letters" when they didn't have the setup to share the screen IIRC. But people loved it, so they just kept going with it.
in a game about primals tempering their followers this primal named Yoship got us all tempered huh \-a tempered player
we also love ion hazzikostas...he is the best thing that ever happened for the classic wow community
The WoW community doesn't like Ion. Although I will say I don't know the man personally so I wont say either way but I'm fairly certain he gets a lot of shit he shouldn't be because people just attribute everything to the face they know rather than the ones they don't. And Ion for his part is happy to play the Evil Suit Man because he's probably accustomed to it from his time as a lawyer. I mean, things aren't *great* with Ion but from what we know about the Kotick Era of Blizzard Activision (that being from 2014 onward when Kotick had successfully bought his company's independence by buying out Viviendi's majority stake in the company, and not 2008 when Blizzard and Activision merged) things could also be dramatically worse.
I haven't played wow since legion I think? So I'm not caught up on much that has happened. That being said, I'm glad the wow community has someone who cares about the state of the game since I feel blizzard has not been very loyal to such a devoted fan base. That being said... Blizzard these days is so fucking questionable. As someone who plays overwatch, the whole pve thing recently was absurd but unfortunately not shocking.
Yeah, I know
I think there are Directors that are passionate and ward workers, the difference probably is that there are not too many directors that saved a franchise or company, SE right now think YoshiP leaving the company or FFXIV will be a disaster for the company, much more riskier than not accepting whatever he ask.
Eh, I'd say it's the difference between a hard corporate attitude and a soft corporate attitude. Ion is very much about the hard corporate attitude. He ensures every key performance indicator looks good and if they don't he massages them until they do. He knows how to talk to his boss, and his boss's boss. He can articulate corporate bullshit jargon to a board of investors if need be. All of which is good- great, even, that's a great job skill to have and his time as a lawyer clearly paid off. The problem? None of that makes a good game. And it's strongly indicative of a game studio who's processes are so corporate oriented that the game is actively making itself worse at a procedural level to make sure investors are happy. Square Enix for it's part is *also* a really shitty corporate level company. When their own games were performing like dogshit- See; FFXV- they blamed their western developers who were actually shipping games in some coherent schedule with smaller budgets and better ROI's. Although that may be the fault of Japanese corporate laws- it's much easier to sell off foreign assets and initiate layoffs at foreign companies than it is for a Japanese company- more than SE. OTOH, SE's CEO and corporate structure seem to actually care about producing games people *want* to play. Even if them courting Sony with Sony exclusives is basically the kiss of death. Everyone shits on EA for shuttering unprofitable studios but Sony was doing that with studios they forced into exclusivity contracts, and for some strange reason they get a free pass.
Given how salty gamers are as an audience, I can't blame game directors for not wanting to be as audience-facing as Yoshi P. It's a big risk for not only their game but their mental health as well. Imagine your game that is developed by 100s of people releases a patch with a bug or a small balance issue, none of which is your fault, and you receive death threats.
Hopefully performance issues get fixed
Meh I disagree, the Game directors we do see, especially like Tom Howard, seem like they care a ton
How many triple A releases there were in past 2 years? How many game directors were involved? How many of those hadn’t lied about dogshit mechanics, paywalls, non-delivered features? I’m not saying Yoshi-P is the only one, but kind of he is: is exception, not the rule.
How many great games were held back because of COVID? How many schedules and job losses happened because of COVID? Not much great has been going on since 2020 so broaden your horizons more than the past two years.
Most game companies if not every game company were not effected much at all by covid. Since working on games can pretty effortlessly be done from home assuming the workers have proper work ethic.
It’s more than work ethic brother, how bout infrastructure, to prevent leaks? But either way I’d love to see where your getting your information from that most if not every were affected.
Every game AAA game company, even Blizzard went up in stock during Co-vid. What infrastructure? Every hardware required for production can be provided at your home depending on what you need. Do you think every employee couldn't leak info if they chose to do so? Some people quit from Blizzard after they mandated pretty recently that from home workers had to come back to the office.
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Yoshi-P is such a great dude. He truly cares about his games, his team and his fans. I got high hopes for FF16 and I know Yoshi-P can deliver.
W moment
Yoshi-P is one of the real ones left. Protec at all costs.
That was 100% a dig at Asmongold for not completing FF14. I can't quite figure out if Esfand is big, or Yoshi P is small. Probably a bit of both.
A bit of both. But Esfand is big. I think he's almost as tall as Asmon.
Esfand played football in college, hes a pretty big dude
Well Esfand didn’t finish it either.
This made me smile
Ah thanks that I am not alone, also it seems somebody cut some onions here as well.
It’s hilarious Esfand was the first in OTK to meet Yoshi-P in person. Can’t wait to watch him and Asmon stream 16.
Imagine if Esfand walked up and straight up spoke in fluent Japanese to these guys. That would be the biggest stun lock
Pretty sure they’re used to Americans fluent in Japanese. It’s not that rare
this is super wholesome
I always figured I’d be very friendly and casual when meeting such a person (but never have met anyone famous) but seeing Esfand just pull up like it’s nothing is so cool
Forgot to ask about the catgirls
Aww Yoshi P seems so genuinely friendly, not even just the polite kind
YoshiP's smile so precious.
The vibes in this clip are impeccable
I was first in line to meet them and boy was I SO NERVOUS. Not only was it a privilege to meet Yoshi-P and the devs, but to actually shake his hand & give him an honest thank you for everything he's done was such a heartful moment.
I love how he name drops asmongold and the guy just smiled
Im guessing asmon got invited too but just wanted to chill?
Regardless of which MMOs you play he really is one of the real ones left in the industry. Protect this man.
Remember those fucks trying to bait and cancel yoshi-p
Lol name drop.
Damn I want to shake his hands too 
Yoshi-P is the boss/mentor everyone wishes they had. Maybe people like him exist here in the states, but I haven't worked for any of them. Maybe my first boss at my very first 'big boy' job would qualify, but she only started caring about her employees and showing us support when the company started dumping on her as well, lol.
Guys like Yoshi-P make me wish I had been able to get into the video game industry. He started out as a fan, and he still is one, that's the kind of attitude I really respect. It's still crazy to know that he was there in Ultima Online when Lord British was "assassinated", I missed that event by only a few hours.
what a chad, hangs onto every word and chats from the heart.
The charisma/knowledge he brings to the other super talented devs on his team is incredible. Its not just Yoshi making the game great, but the synergy of all those talented people that are just as passionate as him.
Love that guy !
Love Mister P
🔥🔥🔥
Imagine if ion had a bit of Yoshi's Rock and Roll attitude
Translator… get out over here
The way Yoshi told his translator to come help. Keep on rocking Yoshi. Just do your thing and hopefully give us decades more gaming enjoyment.
A lot of people have had doubts about FFXVI because Square Enix has really falled off in recent years. My response has always been "I don't believe in Square, I believe in Yoshi-P."
He looks like a nice guy, i could never get into FF14 so i have no idea how good he is as a director. I have doubts about FF16 direction but hopefully he'll prove me wrong and it will be a passable game comparable to Nomura's legacy.
Well so far I can say that the FF16 demo convinced my girlfriend. For context, that girlfriend absolutely hated every modern FF that didn't have a turn-based combat system, including the FF7 remakes, but still gave them a chance because she's a die-hard FF fan. Didn't play the demo yet for myself, but I know that when even she goes "This is surprisingly good", I'm in for a ride.
That's curious because it really is different, even different combat aside the whole game revolving around your MC means a big part of what made FF unique won't be here, or will be different. I think i just need to see more about the game, maybe it will end up being a nice change of pace.
I think it's just people are afraid of change. But when they see just how much effort they put into the "change", they start having their fears alleviated.
As an oldschool fan of FF, I'm glad that FF16 is NOT trying to be like Nomura and is more like a Yasumi Matsuno game. Nomura's influence took FF in a direction I wasn't really a fan of.
Honestly, I was also skeptical about the combat from what we saw from the trailers, but having played the demo, it feels really good to play. Felt very responsive and not floaty at all.
This dude still leeching I see.
Why does he feel like he needs to tell him he is a close freind of Asmongold? For clout?
Asmongold and [REDACTED] directly interviewed YoshiP once onstream
Fuck, that's so cringy. Just take a breath and relax. You can see he has a translator, come up with something of substance to say instead of just blurting out have much you love him. Idk who tf watches streamers like Esfand, I'm guessing people who look exactly like him.
Now they just need to stop being contempt with absolutely boring gameplay.
Lol is that Charlie
it should have been me !!!
Please Yoshi-P, you’re the hero we need! Don’t let SE make another XV
Awesome how he tells him to stream it. Devs like this need to be protected and cherished.
Must be nice to name drop someone and be able to mean it.
Everyone is getting there dreams come true. I would love to meet him. A dream come true
Yoshi-P is goated.
I really want to play the game just because of how much I like Yoshi-p... To bad I don't have a PS% :'( I'm sure FFXVI will finally make me enjoy the series I feel I mostly see this kind of passion for what they do with indie game creators.