New interview from JP 4gamer site

[Hisaye]

Big thx to Reinheart for the translations

[Jinrya-Geki]

A well known character will be introduced to the game? Must be Cloud :3

and thank you, you sexy translators you! I'd hug you if you were on Wutai.

If you're not on wutai then here is a /huggle for you now!

[Soukyuu]

Maybe they will manage to make me stay in the time limit I set them after all.

at least someone see that the people higher up is the reason for the game and i also blame crystal tools it seem like they having issue working with it,.

It was pretty obvious Tanaka was used as a scapegoat.
There is no way it was his decision to push out the game earlier, one could have seen it just by looking at his expression in the later vids (or like me, at gamescom), it wasn't one of a man who was pleased with the situation.

Though at least him stepping down had the effect that the dev team became more open to the community, which is a good thing. Else they'd continue to wrap themselves in silence and we would never know how much the engine is limiting them.

[Acydcross]

Thanks for the effort OP. Nice work.

[Draco]

of course no mention of Auction house, mog house, mailbox, chocobo's, or airships

[darkstarpoet1]

Thanks so much to Reinhart and Rentahamster for the translations. You guys rock.

this is the exact same thing i was going to say. a big thank you to you both. great job and it was very much appreciated.

[Betelgeuzah]

of course no mention of Auction house, mog house, mailbox, chocobo's, or airships

Except for "airships in 1.19", nope, no mention of airships nor anything else irrelevant.

And thank god for that.

[giftforce]

Except for "airships in 1.19", nope, no mention of airships nor anything else irrelevant.

And thank god for that.

What? Explain yourself.

[Betelgeuzah]

What? Explain yourself.

The servers, the engine, the combat system, the area design, the economy, the class system, and the UI all need a major rework.

Nobody should be doing anything else before these issues are addressed completely. Building another floor to the building when the foundation is rotten would be insane, regardless of if all the other buildings in the neighbourhood all have 3 floors each and a nice backyard.

Especially when the only people who care about another floor are few homeless people who aren't even paying for the rent, much less paying the expenses to build the second floor.

[Shura]

The servers, the engine, the combat system, the area design, the economy, the class system, and the UI all need a major rework.

Nobody should be doing anything else before these issues are addressed completely. Building another floor to the building when the foundation is rotten would be insane, regardless of if all the other buildings in the neighbourhood all have 3 floors each and a nice backyard.

Especially when the only people who care about another floor are few homeless people who aren't even paying for the rent, much less paying the expenses to build the second floor.

Your a bit wrong there. It's more like we are residents who paid down payment for a new luxury apartment but only to realize after having paid and moved in, as you put it the building " foundation is rotten" and the owner can't repay that initial payment. To make up for this mistake, the owner is letting everyone live there for free until the foundation is fixed and it becomes a luxury apartment again.

The reason i use the word luxury is most ppl had to pay a lot of money to upgrade their systems to be able to play this broken game, on top of having paid for the game itself. I also wouldn't consider any of us homeless who can't pay, since everyone who bought the game, bought it under the assumption it would be p2p, only to realize how broken the game was. Who in their right minds would pay for an apartment that is broken and has a "rotten foundation" when the monthly fee for a brand new one is the same?. ppl who paid the down payment is left with 2 choice, accept your loss and leave or believe the owners words, that he would repair and wait patiently.

Also you normally don't pay the plumber to do the roofing or build the 3rd floor, you call separate specialist for each repair. In a similar fashion there is a team working on the battle aspect, one for the UI, one for the story and so on; they can easily work on more then one thing. Unless they plan to let the plumber do the roofing and the 3rd floor. if that's the case, he can only do one thing at a time and i doubt this building will ever get finished in time, and even if it does, doubt it'll be proper.