Yoshi-P's heartfelt speech.

[Akiba-Swe]

I think that Yoshida should be procducer/developer to all the new Final Fantasy games so that the name Final Fantasy will be known to everyone again. You clearly see in the video and all the letters from the producer that he has put all his heart to let us experience the dreams and visions he had these past years and more dreams and visions to come. I remember when i was little i used to sneak in to my brothers room to play FFVII and just take in all the music the story and the unique personalites of all the characters and i must say i have that exact feeling when im playing FFXIV A Realm Reborn! so thank you Naoki Yoshida for letting me come home from a tiresome work and play this game despite the server problems and such but that will be fixed soon i hope and know it will be

[Waliel]

they dont know how many pre orders they sold? really, in this electronic day and age they cant have a simple script counting every time someone pre-orders? They weren't even ready to deal with just the pre order early access numbers let alone opening it to the rest of the potential players? Its impossible for them to not know they didnt have the capacity. Sorry this is an excuse

You can't just magically summon more servers when you get the final numbers when EA kicks in. I'd assume they've made their predictions for server capacity months ago when making the deals. They also had included a little headroom, as they upped the number of servers in beta. 2 NA, 1 EU, and 5 JP I believe it was.

[Bizzybeast]

You dont have to guess how many pre-orders you have, you know.

There is no excuse for this incompetence and so far it seems like stockholm syndrome has the better of most people's sense.

"I just feel so humble and grateful that i get to play a game that I paid money for!". WHAT THE HECK!?! Most people CANT PLAY and thats the problem. They should be grateful we bought their game, what are you people even talking about. Thats like buying a chia pet and getting sent a rock with grass glued to it.

Someone should fall on a damn sword for dishonoring their customers like this. Its an outrage and im a happy customer, mind you, happily playing and having very little problems.

But apparently I havent been captive in their attic for 20 years talking about how they are just "misunderstood". NO MORE BULLSHIT, FIX THE PROBLEMS AND STOP SCREWING YOUR PAYING CUSTOMERS. BUSINESS ETIQUETTE RULE NUMBER 1!

[Dagur]

It was really moving to see him like that. Shows you he really cares about his work (like most people who create things do) This is in a way his art form, it took a long time with everyone gathered to help create this, and its finally showing bloom, To the ones who call human emotions just an excuse and the few i see who claim they spent there order all for Early access... really 40+ bucks for 3 days and your ignoring the many years you can play it? [Is himself a 3012 Survivor :,(]. Every game has a rough start, this one only had it really rough during Early access which was a free promotion, Not a requirement to give out, please don't get royally angry over a free promotion. Everyone's human, things happen, if you can't roll with the times and take the good with the bad then.. your living in the wrong fantasy...get it..fantasy.. like final fantasy... Ahh you get it .

also to about the servers full things. Happens a lot to many games, take some time to bring in NEW hardware, give them some breathing room.

[ShizumiNeko]

An amazing speech from Yoshi-P, it really shows how much he cares about the game and community ^ω^

[Freddie]

You dont have to guess how many pre-orders you have, you know.

There is no excuse for this incompetence and so far it seems like stockholm syndrome has the better of most people's sense.

But apparently I havent been captive in their attic for 20 years talking about how they are just "misunderstood". NO MORE BULLSHIT, FIX THE PROBLEMS AND STOP SCREWING YOUR PAYING CUSTOMERS. BUSINESS ETIQUETTE RULE NUMBER 1!

Stop trying to play on a stupidly high populated server. I play Phoenix and have never had any problems logging in. Get that you want to play with your friends but if its full its full.


Business etiquette #1 respect...from both parties I run my own bar/restaurant. You spoke to me like that you'd be shown the door. Your paying for a service which they are providing. Don't like it? Don't pay simple.

[aristo_cbr]

That's one of the best game producer I ever known..

[ninthfantasy]

He made me cry!

Such a special day for the guy, and the team. Seeing him struggle to get his words out just shows how much he loves this game. He's put his heart and soul into it, they honestly could not have picked a better guy for the job. He's a gamer himself, and it honestly takes one to know one. As someone who wants to work in the games industry, it really is refreshing to see a producer so involved in his project.

For all those who are moaning about servers... the first thing he did was apologise for that. Square Enix don't have a crystal ball. These things happen. Be patient, they're just ironing out the issues. Give it a week or two and it'll all be done and dusted.

[Luciendardc]

I don't know who is showing more tears? Yoshi-P or the whiners on this post? At least he cares enough about us to publicly apologize to us and show he actually cares, most companies never do that, in fact I can't even think of any at this current moment. Somewhere along the way people stopped being understanding and are just expecting everything to be perfect. Give them time to fix it and maybe they might even make it up to all of us, all they are asking is for our forgiveness and understanding.

[Miavirk]

Wholeheartedly; I can't wait for this month to pass so we can get rid of all the tough kids who are shitting up the thread/refusing to acknowledge the effort put into this game due to their selfishness.

Please level up INT IRL