Quote Originally Posted by Klefth View Post
Ugh... I really can't be bothered to look that up again. Iirc, the first was said in one of the interviews that came soon after 1.0's shutdown or in the live letter, while the latter I think it was on one of the interviews that followed Gamescom, where he said he didn't oppose to the concept of PLing since to him it was just another form of player interaction, so he was against removing it or something like that. I think both must be buried somewhere in Reinheart's translation thread.
I didn't found anything about that in the articles listed here (didn't re-read them, just searched level, PL and power in the English ones):

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...Article-thread

(I'm not trying to be annoying, just want to confirm whether Yoshi said that leveling will be easier or not with a reliable source)