Quote Originally Posted by Ephremjlm View Post
I think you actually make a really good point here and it hit me while reading your comment that for the most part live letters have been so insanely formulaic in the past however many years. So much so that I feel like even most creators and people across the different forum types joke about it. But like, if we think back to how and why these things started in the first place, it was originally to gain player trust. To show the community that there was a dev team back there that really cared. So much so that am I wrong in remembering that other teams from other big game studios started following suit to some degree? Thinking like WOW, Diablo, and the RS teams to some degree. Shoot Ashes of Creation does them and they don't even have a working game yet lol. I think it's impressive that his team kinda set the tone for that.

To that point it does feel like somewhere down the line, that communication turned into a MLM sales seminar, where they sell people on the services and content creators take that service and sell it to us. Like majority of the time we don't even get english translations so we HAVE to rely on third party resources lol.

That said, I think it's notable that we see and hear Yoshi P. being MORE emotional these days. It's very reminiscent of other times in the past when things weren't looking good. Part of me wonders if corporate is making him hold his tongue, and if things will get worse before they get better. I'm really not sure but if what he says is true that financially they aren't doing well, leadership did make poor decisions directionally, corporate is squeezing them, and their current team just isn't up to snuff on all fronts, then we could be seeing the perfect storm unfortunately.
Meanwhile, over a decade ago...