Yoshida is so chill :D - thank you!

[Beetle]

Yoshida basically cloned WoW. Cant say hes the best but I do think the work for 1.20-1.23b was done well. Also patch 2.2.
As for everything else it was lacking. Not to forget its everyone that puts effort at SE and he takes all the credit and faults.

Hopefully 2.3 will be good but probably not. 2.4 there mega patch.

[Ilitsa]

I want to thank everyone that works on this title, not just Yoshida. This has quickly become an obsession for me, and I can't even count how many hours i've spent stuck in Eorzea. I never played 1.0, but all the bad stuff I hear just pushes me even more into amazement. He, and his entire team have done amazing. The community reps are fun, comical, and an enjoyment to see around as well.

to the development team: I sincerely hope you guys enjoy your jobs as much as we love the results of your hard work.

[RainieHana]

There's always going to be problems in an MMO. The playerbase of pretty much every MMO varies widely, so it's difficult to appeal to every single corner of it. However kudos to Yoshida and team for the outstanding work put into this game. I've made some friends play it with me who aren't even too interested in MMO games, yet they love FFXIV:ARR, and that's saying something!

The Live Letters, the amount of detail put into patches, even minor patches - take 2.28 just recently for an example, I wasn't expecting all of that in a minor patch! It is true, Yoshida and co. TRULY deliver!

I didn't play 1.0 so I don't know the disaster that everyone claims it was, but I've been playing 2.0 since beta now and I have been loving it since.

Thank you Yoshida and team! You all do outstanding jobs!

(Also, I'm getting pretty sick of people comparing every god damn MMO to WoW, just because WoW was arguably the most successful MMO to date, if you're going to compare MMOs don't do it in a happy thank-you thread to the producer and his team, jesus christ).

[HakuroDK]

Yoshida basically cloned WoW.

If I truly believed FFXIV was a clone of WoW, I would have left by now. I played Vanilla WoW and Burning Crusade WoW. I -hated- them both. Do they share some elements? Yes. Is it a clone? Probably in the same way WoW is a clone of Everquest. Which is to say, "A game in the same genre which has a lot of key differences to separate one from the other, but doesn't drift too far away from the genre itself."

But back on topic, I think Yoshida has done what everyone else thought was impossible: Took a failed game and remade it into something truly wonderful. What he did was unprecedented in the gaming industry. When a game fails, normally developers just bury it in a desert and move on. That's not what happened here.

Yoshi did a great job and, especially as far as modern Final Fantasy games have gone, this is the greatest Final Fantasy game I have played since IX.

[Altera]

Tons of Respect for him for doing the who rebuild that no other gaming company has ever done. As to Square Enix for investing in all this to make Final Fantasy great again