INCGamers Interview with Yoshida-san dated 08/21/12

[ShirKirakira]

Definitely. I feel this is true, when so many are complaining about trivial things like, jumping is unrealistic. Falling off cliff and taking damage is unrealistic. Jumping mounts are gonna be so ugly. Leave inventory like FFXI, instead of icons. Like come on. Have they ever played another MMO? Once you've tried what other MMOs have, you know it's not a big deal.

This.

My hobby is beta testing MMOs...I swear, its like some players want this to be the most backwards, dated MMO ever, and the Twelve forbid using some of the improvements that are available in other MMOs to streamline gameplay (because that would be "copying"!). It sounds like Yoshi gets it.

And this game desperately NEEDS improvements if it is ever going survive as a viable, cash generating MMORPG on the modern PC market, because PC gamers are brutal about this, they are not a captive audience like a console player. You can't slap a 10 year old, laggy console UI on a modern PC MMORPG and expect it to do well.