Quote Originally Posted by bobbygunz View Post
You could say that, but there are times when you could also question just how in touch he is with MMO players. At one point he says that it's a FF game first and foremost, or at least he seemed to prioritise the fact that it's a FF game, which is another way of ignoring the market in favour of their own ideology. Shouldn't an MMO be a MMO first and an FF second? It's like saying the gameplay is secondary.
Why "should" he be in touch with the MMO players? They're fickle and there's lots of competition. Going for the FF players would be in their best interest. That's their main market, not some ideology, and as such they are focusing on it. Sure, it's harder to get the average FF player to try FF MMO instead of an average MMO player, but once/if they do they are much less likely to leave and are easier to please.

Other producers of MMO's don't say such things because they don't have the luxury of popular IP that SE does (Blizzard and Bioware excluded).