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251:, his preferred choice, but the internship meant he could start earlier at Hudson: since Yoshida was going through difficulties at the time, he opted for the latter to give his mother peace of mind faster. He loved the company's games as a child, and wanted to do something for it to find back that energy, as its power faded. He was assigned to the creation of
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concluded early on that a solution to all the problems would only be possible as a group effort. After further meetings with the president and vice president of Square Enix included, it was decided in
December 2010 to place Yoshida in charge of the staff as both director and—for the first time in his career—producer. Then company president
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space exploration MMORPG. After four and a half years at the company, he left Hudson due to creative differences. Yoshida saw all titles he worked on as fun for all ages, but his superior only thought of them as made for children: "I couldn't work in a company that'd allow a person like this to be a
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had been sent to various influential western studios in 2009 to study HD game development techniques. Upper management felt a need to compete with western games commercially outside Japan, and asked them to make a project the same way as westerners. They spent a year working on this game, whose
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was facing difficulties right before and right after launch. The "stray dog" trio was pulled into a task force to diagnose that game's issues. They held frequent nightly meetings with members of that team, with
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if they found them boring and had no patience for people that did not understand or tried to broach their field. Yoshida had to develop his persuasion skills to handle that dynamic; communication in his case was easier than with other designers because he studied
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team's members and thus had to demonstrate his dedication to the project first to gain their trust as director. He then talked with the individual developers to find out their ideas for improvements to the revised version known as
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While working on that game, Yoshida also proposed a tool to run different variations of events in online games by combining preset settings, to aid Toshio
Murouchi, a then new member of the PlayOnline operations team.
654:, video games, the game industry, and game development in general. It has been collected into three published volumes. Yoshida ended the column in December 2019 due to lack of time to write it. In September 2020,
181:, which was initially criticized for poor quality. Yoshida became an executive officer at Square Enix in 2015, the Head of Square Enix's Creative Studio III (formerly Creative Business Unit III) and part of the
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Yoshida's experience, "charismatic" leadership skills and "passionate" will to satisfy customers. The HD game oriented towards western tastes was abandoned, while the
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made him want to become a writer due to how engrossed he became by its story, more so than those of books and films. His formative years were lived in
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projects, the theme is not about complexity but having a game that's really easy to get into". Yoshida wanted to work on
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Nobu; touge, eds. (9 May 2018). "内なる"怒り"が新生FFXIVを作った——不定期連載「原田が斬る！」，第6回は「ファイナルファンタジーXIV」吉田直樹氏に聞く，MMORPGの過去と未来". インタビュー.
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Itadaki Street: Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy 30th Anniversary
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manager. As soon as he told me that, I answered that I quit".
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1746:"An Important Announcement for Final Fantasy XIV Fans"
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