Naoki Yoshida Archives

Final Fantasy XIV's Producer and Director, Naoki Yoshida, sat down with Forbes for an interview about the MMORPG's upcoming expansion, Shadowbringers Like many JRPGs, and the rest of the Final Fantasy series in particular, FFXIV deals with the duality of light and darkness throughout it's campaign The player character is called the Warrior of Light, after all[...]

In the latest "Letter from the Producer" stream for Final Fantasy XIV, Game Director and Producer Naoki Yoshida revealed that, due to the difficulties of developing new races for the MMO, the gender-locked Hrothgar and Viera races will be the final races added to FFXIV. While it may not seem like it, adding a new race to the game[...]

In a recent interview with Dengeki Online, Final Fantasy Tactics' Yatsumi Matsuno and Final Fantasy XIV's Naoki Yoshida talked up the development of FFXIV's "Return to Ivalice" raids, Tactics, and Ogre Battle. However, the bit fans will find most interesting is the snippet of the interview where Matsuno discussed the possibility of making a new Tactics or Ogre Battle game[...]

Battle royale games are big right now, and the evergrowing behemoth that is Fortnite seems like it won't ever stop, but having Final Fantasy XIV Producer and Director Naoki Yoshida talk about making a battle royale game is going a bit too far. In an interview with GameSpot, Yoshida enthused that one of his dream projects would be a[...]

credit//SquareEnix During a fan Q&A segment at the Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival in Paris earlier this month, FFXIV Game Director and Producer Naoki Yoshida was asked about the next game in the mainline series While Final Fantasy XVI is hardly official yet, that hasn't stopped the fan hype train from spinning theories on what the game could be[...]

credit// Square Enix The Final Fantasy XIV Fan Fest Paris is going on this weekend, and this morning's keynote from Executive Producer Naoki Yoshida included several bits of new information about the upcoming Shadowbringers expansion that players have been waiting on The keynote kicked off with an extended teaser trailer and moved on to reveal the gunblade using[...]

Final Fantasy XIV's game director Naoki Yoshida, often known to players by his handle Yoshi-P, confirmed all player's hopes and fears at once, by announcing that the FFXIV team plan to keep adding jobs to the game with every expansion With the Stormblood expansion set to hit in just a few weeks, the game will be up to 15[...]

However, game director Naoki Yoshida has specifically referred to Samurai as a DPS class just like it was in FFXI. In the massive dump of screenshots, we got a ton of environment shots hit to show off the game areas of Gyr Abania, Azim Steppe, Yanxia, and the Ruby Sea The new city we get to explore is Kugane[...]

During Frankfurt's Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival, Director and Producer Naoki Yoshida confirmed that Samurai was going to be the second new job made available by patch 4.0 Stormblood Its likely that, much like Red Mage, we'll be able to pick Samurai up in the Realm Reborn areas of the game and progress the job[...]