Final Fantasy XVI Producer Is Done With Toxic Fanbase

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Final Fantasy XVI is available to play right now, and over the years of waiting on this next installment, there were bound to be some players that were letdown. Not every game installment or franchise will meet your expectations. But some players can take things too far. Rather than deliver helpful criticisms about the game and what they would like to see improved on, they point at the developers themselves. We all know some toxic people, I’m sure, so it shouldn’t come to much of a surprise that developers are also dealing with these individuals regularly. But for one producer, the fanbase’s toxic side is growing too much.

Thanks to Tech4Gamers, we’re finding out that there was a mini-documentary with the Japanese development team who worked on Final Fantasy XVI. Again, with such a big RPG name and long-running franchise, there was quite a bit of attention put into this game. Some fans enjoyed it, while others didn’t. But thanks to a translated tweet on Twitter, we see one clip featuring Final Fantasy XVI producer Naoki Yoshida. Looking over the comments, Naoki stated that he found it weird how some people will yell at you that you’ve never met or talked with before. The producer went on to say that some of the negative comments come from a place of malice, and as a result, he was growing tired of reading them.

Yoshi-P reading negative Japanese comments on #FF16 "There's a lot of people who just yell at you, people I've never seen, met, or talked to before. It's weird. What did we do to them? Perhaps they just write it from a place of negativity and malice. It's tiresome." pic.twitter.com/jW2AY1WAgr

Again, this is nothing new in the video game industry. In fact, it was just this month that the team from Bungie swore