Yoshida is so chill :D - thank you!

[Beetle]

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.

[HakuroDK]

Yoshida basically cloned WoW.

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.