Yoshida is so chill :D - thank you!

I just feel like he doesn't get enough respect and recognition :D
I just want to thank him

This is a thank you thread and you can talk about what made you respect him. Or what you find funny about him. He's so down to earth :D

I respect anyone that can take the tragedy that was 1.0 and turn it around into this. I didn't expect to get sucked into this game like I have. So a very big thanks from me.

^ This.

Kudos for a job well done, you came from a long way. Thank you for entertaining us so successfully with our precious free time ^^

I respect him for always telling us to look forward to it. It's almost like he really cares.

i respect his consistency… dude likes to deliver. i compare content released sided by side to swtor since i left at the beginning of the year and it is just down right laughable how little swtor has done compared to the "patches" here.

I know people who rugs through the content like locusts in a wheat field, then complain there's nothing to do. I personally have so much content to complete, and I play 2-3 hours every night. Never played 1.0, but played XI for years. This game is quickly surpassing the other already, and it's not even been a year. Kudos Mr. Yoshida!

Threads like this often get buried but they deserve much more recognition. Yoshida has done an amazing job and I have very few complaints about the game. Nothing is perfect but he brought the game back from the point of no return and it only continues to get better with each patch, and for that he has my thanks.

Kudos to the whole development team. The thing I like most about Yoshida though is that it seems like if someone on the team has a "fun" idea, he lets them implement it. I love all the little entertaining nuggets in this game!

I agree. I enjoy grinding and have been around long enough in MMORPGs to know what real grinding is. I just hope Yoshi P doesnt give in to all the haters who don't seem to understand that long term content is intended to be long term and not just 6 weeks and done. For me, the fun of the grind is the euphoria of finally hitting my goals after the tedium of many months of monotony. The more I see people complaining, the more I am convinced that Yoshi P has made something that appeals to my preferences.

Looking at Square-Enix as a whole, I have this to say:

Yoshida and the FFXIV:ARR team are the absolute worldwide MVPs of the entire corporation.

I would say that the rest of the company ought to treat them as royalty...they certainly deserve as much, as they may have very well saved the whole operation. However, knowing of them, they probably don't want to be singled out like that, and would simply prefer respect, forthrightness, and good attitudes, which is precisely what they've shown us as well as the massive IP they've been handed.

Look to what they are doing, listen to what they have to say, and apply their methods and strategies to all other projects, and you'll do good, Square-Enix. Very good.

Yoshida basically cloned WoW. Cant say hes the best but I do think the work for 1.20-1.23b was done well. Also patch 2.2.
As for everything else it was lacking. Not to forget its everyone that puts effort at SE and he takes all the credit and faults.

Hopefully 2.3 will be good but probably not. 2.4 there mega patch.

I want to thank everyone that works on this title, not just Yoshida. This has quickly become an obsession for me, and I can't even count how many hours i've spent stuck in Eorzea. I never played 1.0, but all the bad stuff I hear just pushes me even more into amazement. He, and his entire team have done amazing. The community reps are fun, comical, and an enjoyment to see around as well.

to the development team: I sincerely hope you guys enjoy your jobs as much as we love the results of your hard work.

There's always going to be problems in an MMO. The playerbase of pretty much every MMO varies widely, so it's difficult to appeal to every single corner of it. However kudos to Yoshida and team for the outstanding work put into this game. I've made some friends play it with me who aren't even too interested in MMO games, yet they love FFXIV:ARR, and that's saying something!

The Live Letters, the amount of detail put into patches, even minor patches - take 2.28 just recently for an example, I wasn't expecting all of that in a minor patch! It is true, Yoshida and co. TRULY deliver!

I didn't play 1.0 so I don't know the disaster that everyone claims it was, but I've been playing 2.0 since beta now and I have been loving it since.

Thank you Yoshida and team! You all do outstanding jobs!

(Also, I'm getting pretty sick of people comparing every god damn MMO to WoW, just because WoW was arguably the most successful MMO to date, if you're going to compare MMOs don't do it in a happy thank-you thread to the producer and his team, jesus christ).

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Originally Posted by Beetle

Yoshida basically cloned WoW.

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If I truly believed FFXIV was a clone of WoW, I would have left by now. I played Vanilla WoW and Burning Crusade WoW. I -hated- them both. Do they share some elements? Yes. Is it a clone? Probably in the same way WoW is a clone of Everquest. Which is to say, "A game in the same genre which has a lot of key differences to separate one from the other, but doesn't drift too far away from the genre itself."

But back on topic, I think Yoshida has done what everyone else thought was impossible: Took a failed game and remade it into something truly wonderful. What he did was unprecedented in the gaming industry. When a game fails, normally developers just bury it in a desert and move on. That's not what happened here.

Yoshi did a great job and, especially as far as modern Final Fantasy games have gone, this is the greatest Final Fantasy game I have played since IX.

Tons of Respect for him for doing the who rebuild that no other gaming company has ever done. As to Square Enix for investing in all this to make Final Fantasy great again :)