Yoshi-P's heartfelt speech.

[wirewitch]

"I'm tearing up guys.

First of all I want to say that I am sorry for us having to go into maintenance for the NA/EU servers. I want to apologize for taking precious time away from players during early access. From here on out is a long journey. starts to tear up, crowd gives encouragement.

Its almost been 3 years since I took over development for FFXIV. At the time I hadn't been involved with the game that much, and I thought that it wouldn't be that big of a deal to remake it. I have always loved final fantasy and have always loved mmo's. starts to tear up again At the time, I gathered the team together and told them that we were going to remake the game just two days before we announced it to all of you on December 2nd.
I still remember it now, but at the time, we were in a studio like this one, and Souken (current director of game music) was in the background checking my mic levels. I clearly remember him standing there give me a guts pose (one fist in the air, think rocky) but at the time I had the same kind of worries as the players; how is this really going to turn out?… Isn't this going to be impossible…. pauses.

But one by one I got support from all of you. It was said in the questions earlier, but normally an MMO takes 4-5 years to create and carefully plan. Earlier, Wada said his role is a tank. I had the same idea of being a tank when making this game. Up until now I have gone through each facet of the game (implies that he also bore all of the responsibility).

But I am not saying that it is just me who made FFXIV: ARR. This was all due to the players around the world, the core staff here, and the hundreds of staff not here today. I came here today planning on not crying, but today we have finally taken the first step with FFXIV: ARR. And it is only the first step. Honestly I don't think we have any time to rest. We are working on patches and expansions.

More than anything I want to thank the players, especially those who started from the original FFXIV, and those that have joined our community. Thank you all for all of your support so far. I only hope that we have released a game that will not bring shame to Square Enix. from here on out there is no finishing an MMORPG. FFXIV:ARR is not a game that we made alone, but a game that we made along with all of you. From here on out we home to keep creating this game from here on out, from this place with you for 5-10 years.

I again want to say thank you for all you have done so far and we hope for your support in the future."

I cried reading this!

Source:
http://www.craveonline.com/gaming/ar...ailer#/slide/1

[wirewitch]

Tears are literally streaming down my face right now after watching that video. I sat here WILLING him to be able to speak around that anguish and pride which he and the team have every right to be feeling.

Yes it hasn't been the best start but my god, the amount of work they've put in to it. It's an easy thing to forget, it's easy to not even realise just how much of their heart and soul has gone into this game until you see something like that, you hear it in their voice, see it in their eyes.

I am feeling very humbled right now.

[theomen]

sounds like celebrity or a politician when they make a mistake and get caught with there hands in the cookie jar.. Crying really??? give me some popcorn

[Andrien]

Now that is what I call dedication. Yoshi-P is truly passionate about this game. Lets stand by him, and help.

[Teknoman]

sounds like celebrity or a politician when they make a mistake and get caught with there hands in the cookie jar.. Crying really??? give me some popcorn

I dunno man, he worked himself into a fever early on (literally), and this is pretty unprecedented. A huge chunk of gamers were convinced that that the game that is here today, would never exist / it was impossible to restructure and revamp an MMO that failed, and still retain interest. They not only did that, but managed to tie it into the story, and make what was left of 1.0 decently fun.

2.0 is tons of fun when you are playing, its just Square Enix's fault as a company, for not take precautions for server capacity.

[Rezzo]

Unfortunately error 3017 has taken away any type of precious moment feelings this speech should have been able to invoke.

[Roaman]

Glad i always wait a month or two before i get any new mmo so i wont have to suffer like you all lol , glad i rushed and made my charcter on the server i wanted during phase 4

[theomen]

I dunno man, he worked himself into a fever early on (literally), and this is pretty unprecedented. A huge chunk of gamers were convinced that that the game that is here today, would never exist / it was impossible to restructure and revamp an MMO that failed, and still retain interest. They not only did that, but managed to tie it into the story, and make what was left of 1.0 decently fun.

2.0 is tons of fun when you are playing, its just Square Enix's fault as a company, for not take precautions for server capacity.

the game is good but if you can provide the service don't sell the game

[wirewitch]

the game is good but if you can provide the service don't sell the game

The service is there and is gradually getting better. After two days of constant 90k errors today I was able to get in and play for over eight hours with only one game crash.

Turns out my wireless receiver may have been to blame because as soon as I changed that, no more problems.

[theomen]

The service is there and is gradually getting better. After two days of constant 90k errors today I was able to get in and play for over eight hours with only one game crash.

Turns out my wireless receiver may have been to blame because as soon as I changed that, no more problems.

for you it is but tell that to the thousands of ppl who bought the game and can't get in bc they sold example "2,000,000 copies and only able to provide service for 1 mill.