Final Fantasy XIV Director Naoki Yoshida recently spoke about the future of massively multiplayer online role-playing The Washington Post, saying that at the current rate of growth, users can expect the online world to continue to expand with new content for at least another five years, if not indefinitely.
“Even now, [Square Enix CEO Yosuke Matsuda] encourages us to fight to get more players and 30 million adventures, and he still has plans for us, ”Yoshida said The Washington Post by means of a translator. “Fortunately, we do not see any stop in our momentum. At one point, we thought we might be able to get to the plateau, but fortunately our player base continues to expand and grow. “
While game development is never easy, Final Fantasy XIV expansions and patches have continued to arrive at a decent clip under Yoshida’s guidance thanks to the way his team has streamlined the new content creation process. Yoshida said that while planning expansions, they expect that about 70% of the work will already be done due to previous development, leaving only enough space for the iteration of these standardized resources.
Writing, Yoshida added, is always done much more in advance. The story for Final Fantasy XIVclose Endwalker the expansion, which will launch this fall, was completed by October 2019.
Final Fantasy XIV had a rocky start when it was first released in 2010, but Square Enix’s decision to locate Yoshida (then known primarily as talented Dragon Quest X (planner) in a leadership role led to the 2013 publication of A reborn kingdom, a reboot of the original game that served as the basis for all subsequent expansions.
It is largely assumed that Yoshida’s work turning the MMO upside down earned him a role in the production of the next single-player installment in the series, Final Fantasy XVI. But for now, he remains silent about what they have in store to avoid, unwittingly, raising or shattering the hopes of the various Final Fantasy fan base.
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“We do not want to say anything that is half cooked and that provokes speculation [Final Fantasy XVI]”Yoshida said.” With anyone Final Fantasy fan, depending on which Final Fantasy the title is your jam, the point that will excite you tends to differ “.