I watched it, really engaging and interesting stuff. I'm personally a massive fan of behind the scenes sort of stuff from developers and game companies, so this video was right up my alley.I originally planned to get 1.0, bought a collector's edition for myself and as a birthday gift for a friend, but after getting in to the beta and playing the game I realized just how bad it was, immediately refunded both pre-orders and took him out to dinner instead where I warned him of what I nearly got us in to!

Now years later I felt the game was worth the money and I'm glad I'm hear. Hearing Yoshida be so candid about things was really nice to hear, especially how he basically told his team "my way or the highway" and took charge and then his incredibly ballsy presentation to corporate. Then the bit about Soken being so enthusiastic didn't surprise me either, Soken is awesome and that sounds like something he'd do, if you've seen him on stage you understand.

But after watching it I have to go ahead and reaffirm a statement I've said in the past, Yoshida and his team are amazing and they managed to save this game, not only from being even more of a disaster than it was, in to a quality (and profitable!) product.