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Final Fantasy 14 boss Naoki Yoshida might not have become a Square Enix dev if it weren't for a "jerk" childhood friend that accidentally taught him PvP by tricking him into being bad at 1983 Mario Bros.

"I hated the guts of my friend"

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Final Fantasy 14 director Yoshi-P daydreams of more crossover events with Evangelion, Gundam, and especially Diablo: 'I love it so much that I would want to make a Diablo game myself'

Yoshida also mentioned he's a "maniac about One Piece." Aren't we all?

PC Gamer

'That was my first experience with PvP,' Naoki Yoshida's love for game design all started with a tragic Mario Brothers bait and switch

Lucy from Peanuts would love FF14 raids.

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I spoke with Final Fantasy 14’s Naoki Yoshida about Monster Hunter, Beastmaster, and the collaborations he’d love to do next – ‘I’m a maniac about One Piece’

We spoke with Final Fantasy 14 director and producer Naoki Yoshida at Gamescom 2025 about the game and its upcoming content.

TechRadar

In the wake of shutting down a highly popular mod, Final Fantasy 14 director Yoshi-P shares deeply earnest blog about 'mods, their use, and the culture surrounding them'

It's a change in tone.

PC Gamer

Final Fantasy 14 director does his best to assuage dooming around the next expansion's release date with another hint of shaking up its usually rigid timeline: 'You won't have to wait long'

Is Creative Studio 3… going off-script?

PC Gamer

Final Fantasy 14 director issues warning about the use of mods that may 'infringe upon others', says NSFW add-ons could lead to legal troubles by regulators in certain countries

Final Fantasy 14's director, Naoki Yoshida, has issued a warning about the continued use of mods that may "infringe" on other players and also lead to legal troubles.

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Final Fantasy 14's Fan Fest dates have players crunching the numbers, and it's left them more nervous than excited

We might be in for a long wait, huh.

PC Gamer

Final Fantasy 14 director has a pretty simple explanation for why the Monster Hunter Wilds collab will feature Omega – 'In the Monster Hunter team, there are many Warriors of Light'

Naoki Yoshida has said Monster Hunter Wilds' upcoming Final Fantasy 14 collaboration will feature Omega because the Monster Hunter team wanted it to happen.

TechRadar

'Legal inquiry' shuts down one of Final Fantasy 14's most popular mods, adding yet another blurry line in the sand from Square Enix

Sorry, sorry—I'm trying to stuff all these worms back into the can.

PC Gamer

Final Fantasy 14 killed one plugin that enabled player stalking, and now Square Enix is making sure "prohibited third-party tools" stay broken as MMO boss Yoshi-P says he "would appreciate your patience as we resolve this issue"

Third time's the charm

GamesRadar

'We made it too difficult for players to even get into the raid in the first place': Final Fantasy 14 director admits its latest dungeon was 'a misstep in development'

Forked Tower's been rocking some disastrous prongs.

PC Gamer

Final Fantasy XVI producer doubles down on multiplatform strategy for Xbox — comments on popularity ofturn-basedRPGS

Naoki Yoshida, the producer of Final Fantasy XIV and XVI, was recently interviewed by Anime News Network regarding the state of Final Fantasy's future, while asking if the franchise will ever go back to having turn-based combat.

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Final Fantasy 14 is fast-tracking one of my most-anticipated fixes, releasing an entire month earlier than expected

Changes to entering Forked Tower are being implemented this week.

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Final Fantasy 14 director Yoshi-P admits 'our quality of service has declined recently' and 'we got used to things a bit too much and got comfortable'

It's been a rough year for the critically acclaimed MMO.

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Final Fantasy 14 is doing what it should have done 6 years ago and fulfilling its promise to let every race wear hats

Hrothgar and Viera are finally getting hat privilege.

PC Gamer

Final Fantasy 14 is making it easier to enter its latest dungeon so you can stop spending half an hour playing 'instance gacha'

Occult Crescent makes it mighty difficult to get 48 players in one room.

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Square Enix is "probably kicking itself" seeing the success of realistic turn-based JRPG Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, analyst says, after being "reticent to do it with the Final Fantasy series"

"If you asked Final Fantasy fans from the late '90s/early '00s what the ideal version of a JRPG should look like, it'd be something like this"

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'Clair Obscur: Expedition 33' utterly destroys Square Enix's gaslighting over Final Fantasy turn-based combat

A new "JRPG" from France has destroyed Square Enix's Naoki Yoshida gaslighting over turn-based combat, and reminds us how corporations kill creativity.

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Final Fantasy 14 composer Masayoshi Soken discusses his work and reveals why he'd love to make a horror game soundtrack: 'I have the desire to face that challenge'

Final Fantasy 14 composer Masayoshi Soken talks to us about making music for the popular MMORPG as well as the series’ 16th mainline entry.

Windows Central

Final Fantasy IX fans think this new website hints at the long rumored remake

Square Enix has just launched a new website dedicated to the 25th anniversary of Final Fantasy IX and fans are speculating it could be a hint at a remake in development.

PC Gamer

In a world of WoW Classics and Old School RuneScapes… could Final Fantasy 14 ever do the same?

Let me entertain a world where we play old FF14 all over again.

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Final Fantasy 14's Yoshi-P quietly removed from Square Enix's board after years of wanting out: "It's much more fun to just make games"

If you love him, let him go

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25 Years Later, 'FFXIV' Brings Back One Achingly Familiar Feature

'Final Fantasy 14' is adding community crafting content, 'Final Fantasy 9' throwbacks and more in the upcoming Patch 7.2.

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Final Fantasy 14 promises crackdown on stalking exploits with actual solutions now, rather than politely asking the plugin creator to stop

The 7.2 patch in March is set to tackle account ID exploitations.

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