Why is Yoshi-P so loved for a head dev?

[Squa11_Leonhart]

my little pony was better before it became picasso.

[Ashrak]

Do you guys know why?

He does a good job. And every FF6 reference is a great reference. If he continues like this he has the potential to become a icon as Miyamoto or Koyima.

[Altera]

I like Yoshida due to how "one of us" and down to earth the guy is. He genuinly has a passion to make the game as true to the FF fans out there and a game he can be proud of instead of what I feel what Blizzard is doing lately, which is how can we milk as much money outta this franchise with the least amount of effort.
With the amount of very poor videogame releases lately, AC Unity, Masterchief Collection, WatchDogs, its very hard to have faith and trust in a developer/producer, but with the whole relaunch/build of FFXIV ARR, he has proven more than enough that what Yoshida says and does is to have faith and trust in.

With the way SE officially apologized, remade the game brilliantly, listens to their community (as much as possible, as face it, we the players usually dont know what we want . This FFXIV relaunch just made me respect SE and Yoshida as a developer/producer.

[Scy]

I want to have his babies.

[Nephera]

he took 1.0, arguably one of the worst AAA MMOs ever created and turned it into one of the most successful subscription games ever released. That's pretty impressive.

Plus he likes Dark Age of Camelot.

[Laerune]

Unlike other developers and producers, with Yoshida it feels like he is one of us.

[NoahArks]

He pretty much listens. Some girl asked for spriggan hats during a fanfest, and not even a few days later they were there.

[Yukiko]

I guess its the history behind.
In first Live Letters he was shy and even said he is not used to it and its new...
Later on they become brave and tried some jokes (wada helped a lot)...
Now they are even doing live shows and as you see in fan fest he likes what he does...
With the add of Forums and "Letters from the Producer" he showed presence...
He did not try to hide and also said sorry for what they did wrong...
But one of the main reasons i think is his forum activity, if you read in JP forum...

[DefendPopPunk]

He has a strong work ethic and I respect that. This is just going by what a lot of his devs and community team members say about him.

[Dalex]

The personality he projects is friendly, outgoing, and very easy to relate to. He's the first developer I've seen (other than some on the Bungie staff) who really puts himself out there for people to see, and that helps put a human face and personality to the development team. Something about that just makes you feel more comfortable buying a product from him, and going back for more.