The Community Teams interview Yoshida in Japan!

[Renshi]

Yoshida: I really love them! They are so adorable, and surely anyone would simply die being around that much cuteness! Also what I like about them is that once the PvP is implemented, they are hard to target and can easily hide from others! (laughs maniacally)

I'm vomiting sugar...

[Dargoth_Draconia]

I have a feeling Yoshi-P players on Wutai because he did mention Final Fantasy 7 was his favorite game. I wish I could meet you Yoshi-P in game I would treat you like another player and not as leader of FFXIV. I think you would be surprised at how many people would treat you like a player and not with reverence. Already a lot of players like you for just being a player of other games and MMO's and understanding and even giving us polls and listening to what fans say and making strides to make the player base happy overall. I would just like the opportunity to party with you and do a dungeon sometimes and talk about random things instead of game design and future plans, lol. Heck I don't even know if you speak any English or you have a translator do it all for you but I would assume you are well versed in the English language.

[InuraBera]

How can he play DaoC and Ultima Online and think THIS is the best direction for FFXIV?

Wada breathing down his neck?

Edit:

Anyways, beastmen strongholds, housing, map redesign, and new mobs all sound interesting.

Editing on my PS3, so no bolding emphasis on anything. Anyway, I'm not entirely sure what 'THIS' is yet! Hopefully once we get a couple more patches done we get some view on the bigger picture, because from what I gather at the moment they seem to be going for some kind of system in which you can choose what you do that day (aside from the others out there, quest, quest, quest etc) including just grinding in the fields if you so choose, or doing a couple of Leves, or faff about raiding some poor guys who were just hiding in a cave.

The larger scale changes to the world itself will be intriguing, I have no doubt of that. I'm really surprised to hear him mention DAoC so often, along with the PvP. Clearly he has interest in that area, that will doom us alll, aaaaaahhh. But not really. Whatever happens, so long as I'm not forced to 'quest' all the time, I'll be a reasonably happy camper.

*Edit* He is probably the single most interesting looking game designer I have ever seen, and although these are 'fluff' pieces, I do like reading them. The supposed difference in the team over the months is interesting to hear.

[giftforce]

Editing on my PS3, so no bolding emphasis on anything. Anyway, I'm not entirely sure what 'THIS' is yet! Hopefully once we get a couple more patches done we get some view on the bigger picture, because from what I gather at the moment they seem to be going for some kind of system in which you can choose what you do that day (aside from the others out there, quest, quest, quest etc) including just grinding in the fields if you so choose, or doing a couple of Leves, or faff about raiding some poor guys who were just hiding in a cave.

The larger scale changes to the world itself will be intriguing, I have no doubt of that. I'm really surprised to hear him mention DAoC so often, along with the PvP. Clearly he has interest in that area, that will doom us alll, aaaaaahhh. But not really. Whatever happens, so long as I'm not forced to 'quest' all the time, I'll be a reasonably happy camper.

*Edit* He is probably the single most interesting looking game designer I have ever seen, and although these are 'fluff' pieces, I do like reading them. The supposed difference in the team over the months is interesting to hear.

Well DaoC was all about territorial control and Ultima Online was all about player-freedom and role playing, so it's really weird to see Yoshi, insofar as it concerns FFXIV, focusing almost exclusively on "instances" and "questhubs" which are stark opposites of the sandbox-philosophy which served as the foundation for those games he mentioned being such a big fan of.

[Keftenk]

How come nothing was asked about the scarfs Yoshida wears? He's ALWAYS sporting a new scarf every time a new picture pops up of him lol....

I wonder if he runs around Uldah on his lalafell in the bandanna's...

[Delsus]

More really good info here, cant wait for chocobos and airships, hopefully the chocobo quest wont be like the one on 11, standing around for hours trading gyshal greens to a sick chocobo, possibly a training type of quest simalar to ffx, bar the bs race at the end lol.

I think we should all respect the hard work Yoshi-P and the dev team put into the game, and i'm the same as Yoshi, I beleave my blood i 90% caffene.

Yoshi-P and the dev team will always have my respect

[Rjain]

Yoshi-P.kewl guy who doesn't afraid of anything.

Except airplanes.

[Hvinire]

They are all beautiful.

That Christina Aguilera song comes to mind...

[Corrderio]

Interesting intreview, but lost some respecting calling Lalafell cute

[Sehro]

Yoshida: Hmm, I would have to say when players get angry at me in the forums… Pointing out mistakes and lack of information is one thing. However, it gets to me (along with the rest of the team) when the players start bashing my personality ^^; Please don't be too hard on us!

the poor guy...i hate to be in his place when it comes to this...