FFXIV director has been secretly playing with the community using an alt account Square EnixThe director of Final Fantasy XIV Naoki Yoshida has admitted that he owns a secret alt account, which he\u2019s been playing on to engage with the community. If there\u2019s anyone that Final Fantasy XIV players know about, it has to be director Naoki Yoshida. The beloved game dev is adored by fans from all over the world, renowned for turning the game around from its less-than-desirable beginnings. With all his time constantly tuning and working on the game, it\u2019s hard to tell if the dev gets much time to enjoy Eorzea himself. Particularly with the upcoming release of Dawntrail, it\u2019s all hands on deck to ensure that the new expansion is the best it can be for players. However, Yoshida has revealed that he does indeed have an alt character, one that he uses to play with the community, but he feels sad that he isn\u2019t able to communicate or interact with them on a deeper level. In an interview with TheGamer, Yoshi-P revealed that around \u201c85-90%\u201d of the team are actually Warriors of Light who are hiding their true identity. This includes Yoshi-P himself, who has claimed that he often makes friends and joins in group activities with his alt characters. Yoshida explained that this let him enjoy the community \u201coutside of the intended schemes and mechanics.\u201d \u201cA lot of people have been playing together with me and they don\u2019t even realize it. I might even be on their friend\u2019s list and they don\u2019t know about it.\u201d Unfortunately, since he is such a renowned member of the Final Fantasy XIV community, he has to distance himself from his party members. This is the side of anonymity that always makes the devs pretty sad, as he has to turn down dinner invitations or voice chats to prevent giving away his identity. \u201cI have so many friends in-game, but when they all say, \u2018Oh, let\u2019s go for dinner\u2019, I cannot join them, and that makes me sad. I can\u2019t even voice chat with them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
FFXIV director has been secretly playing with the community using an alt account Square EnixThe director of Final Fantasy XIV Naoki Yoshida has admitted that he owns a secret alt account, which he\u2019s been playing on to engage with the community. If there\u2019s anyone that Final Fantasy XIV players know about, it has to be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}