"I am an employee at Square Enix, and I receive money to make games": Final Fantasy 14 boss Yoshi-P says he won't be "bored" with the MMO until he runs out of "things that require to be taken care of"

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Final Fantasy 14 is a heartbreakingly idyllic fantasy world with bunny boys and job opportunities as a monk or a scholar – but on that note, the MMO is not only a daydream, it's also work. More specifically, it's director Naoki "Yoshi-P" Yoshida's work, and he suggests he won't be bored with the 12-year-old game as long as he gets paid.

"I'm more of a businessman and I make games," he tells Noisy Pixel in a new interview with translated English captions. "People tend to say we're creators or creative, but I am an employee at Square Enix, and I receive money to make games, and I think my primary purpose is to make games so that we are delivering them to gamers out there, fans, players that want to consume our product.

"I think that is fundamental or a minimum requirement that I have because I belong to this company," Yoshida concludes. "Working in a company and feeling bored with a particular project and starting to claim, well, I don't like this game, I'm bored with this game – then I think people like that would need to sort of remove themselves from a corporate environment if they want to pursue that style"

Ashley Bardhan
Ashley Bardhan
Senior Writer

Ashley is a Senior Writer at GamesRadar+. She's been a staff writer at Kotaku and Inverse, too, and she's written freelance pieces about horror and women in games for sites like Rolling Stone, Vulture, IGN, and Polygon. When she's not covering gaming news, she's usually working on expanding her doll collection while watching Saw movies one through 11.

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