Quote Originally Posted by Iromi View Post
I don't think Yoshida, when talking to people in person and stuff..and when they tweet questions asks them to post their gaming resume.
No, but he will ask for specifics so that he can actually form an accurate response. In regards to the content lacking complexity and depth, you've provided none. And, you continue to make statements like "the battle system is simple" with no actual support. In reality, when only a tiny minority of this player-base can claim any sort of mastery over the battle system, can you really call it simple? If it was simple, more people would be good at it. This is akin to me walking up to some renaissance masterwork and claiming it's easy because I can use a paintbrush, too.

And I would say your interpretation of reality is a bit off. The raiding community is still alive and well on JP servers and their main raiding server had a Gordias Savage clear rate amongst active level 60 characters of 16%. Given how hard Gordias Savage was, 16% has to represent a sizeable raiding population. That's their base. The NA scene is like their neglected step child.

Proof? Just look at the implementation of Raid Finder. In structure, it mimics the JP standards of PF listings -- a clearly separated phase specific progression model. Given the total disrepair of NA PF and the mentality that they approach tools like DF with, the current implementation of RF does not fit with the NA culture at all. And, the results prove this. It's totally unused. But, because the JP server was already using the DF as tool to clear moreso than practice, RF made perfect sense within their culture.

So, from the point of view of a NA raider, the NA raid scene is in a pretty bad state. But, when you say Yoshida knows that some things are wrong, I don't believe that he's operating from the perspective of a NA raider. His solutions clearly don't show that. His solutions clearly show he's approaching things from the JP perspective.