Quote Originally Posted by Gemina View Post
I was unaware of this, but knew and was hoping someone would point out if this was indeed the case. Like I said earlier, it is difficult for the dev team to relate to the playerbase from purely a development level, and immersion is needed. While I still think it is not necessary to disclose this to the playerbase, it is still very heart warming and promising that I now know that they do this.
Yoshida recently said that on patch days he'll log on and afk at one of the starting cities aetherites just to people watch or have the game noise going on in the background while working. Heck there have been people who are fairly sure they've had CC matches against him.