Yoshida's interviews around the world!

[Bayohne]

Greetings everyone!

As I'm sure you’re all keenly aware, Yoshida went on a whirlwind tour to four different countries soon after the announcement of FINAL FANTASY XIV Version 2.0 to speak about the changes with community sites and media. There have been a few threads posted for each of his interviews around the world, but we thought it’d be a good idea to collect them into one thread as much as possible.

What's really cool is even some of the interviews from France and Germany were translated into English by the websites themselves!

Of course, if we miss any, we’ll be sure to edit the below list and add them in!

English Interviews
Blue Gartr: FFXIV Naoki Yoshida Interview / Naoki Yoshida MORE Questions and Answers
Gamer Escape: Gamer Escape Interviews Naoki Yoshida "The Truth Is Out There!"
ZAM: ZAM Interviews Naoki Yoshida / Yoshi-P Gives More Answers
RPG Site: Final Fantasy XIV Interview with Producer/Director Naoki Yoshida / Final Fantasy XIV Interview with Producer/Director Naoki Yoshida - Round 2
RPGamer: An Interview with Final Fantasy XIV's Producer/Director Naoki Yoshida
Curse: Final Fantasy XIV Online's Overhaul: An Interview with Naoki Yoshida
Game Geex: Game Geex interviews FFXIV Game Director Yoshidasan
Massively: Our interview with Final Fantasy XIV's Naoki Yoshida

French Interviews
JeuxOnline: Interview avec Naoki Yoshida par l'équipe JeuxOnLine (French) / Interview with Naoki Yoshida with the JeuxOnline team (English version)
Finalfantasy14.eu: Interview N°2 de Naoki Yoshida pour finalfantasy14.eu (French) / Naoki Yoshida interview for finalfantasy14.eu (English version)
FFworld.com: Interview Naoki Yoshida (FFXIV) (French)
Mondespersistants.com: Interview de Naoki Yoshida, producteur de FFXIV (French)

German Interviews
Final-Fantasy.de: Interview mit Naoki Yoshida und Sage Sundi (German)
finalfantasy-wiki.de: Interview mit Naoki Yoshida (German)
jpgames.de: Unser Interview mit Naoki Yoshida (German) / Our interview with Naoki Yoshida (English version)

Yoshida also took a moment during his hectic schedule to pose with our community counterparts at the Europe office! Here he is with Sasunaich (left) and Youmukon (right). If you visit the DE and FR forums, I'm sure you're familiar with these two!

Sasunaich, Yoshida and Youmukon

[PrettyPrincess]

Most good.

[RemVye]

Hehawww

[Irondude]

A coffee and cigarette fueled around-the-world interview tour... Its like he must make a penance to the world by destroying his health before they will let S/E have a second go at this game.

[Sanlord]

Congratulations Yoshida You're the man

[Nakiamiie]

In a french interview (FFworld.com), Yoshi-P says he'd like to bring the ability to morph into a dragon. Dragoon is going to be awesome, if it's related!

[Duuude007]

In a french interview (FFworld.com), Yoshi-P says he'd like to bring the ability to morph into a dragon. Dragoon is going to be awesome, if it's related!

As a compromise to a pet, what about letting the dragoon embody the dragon spirit at times, displaying in-combat traits of a dragon? Could even have a 2 hour ability someday that has him literally become draconic.

for a crit heavy job, this could actually be fun to implement.

Reeeally now?

[Rentahamster]

Every time I see it, I keep reading "Youmukon" as "Youkumon" like he's some kind of Digimon or something.

[Jim]

Thanks man great interviews!

[Akumu]

In a french interview (FFworld.com), Yoshi-P says he'd like to bring the ability to morph into a dragon. Dragoon is going to be awesome, if it's related!