Regarding that Finaland Interview...

[MicahZerrshia]

A lot of ppl are blaming Japanese corp. culture, esp for the fact that Yoshida doesn't seem to be listening to a lot of the criticism that is coming from the playerbase, influencers and gaming media. No one is even sure if he is getting the feedback or if the community teams are filtering out all the bad. Even the questions he tends to gets from interviews and ones he answers on the live letteers are obviously pre selected by SE PR to make xiv sound like the best mmo ever. How they got away with the questions in this interview I have no idea. My guess is they went off script and have now lost access to future interviews.

As a game producer/director Yoshida seems clueless to the state of his own game, either that or he feels he knows better that the majority of players. 5.0 will definitely be the make or break for a lot of ppl, that's for sure. They need to start trying to retain whats left of their veteran crowd, esp with some of the new, western MMOs on the horizon. I have been here since 2010 but they are going to have to wow me even with the advertising to get me to even buy 5.0 since I took Yoshida's advice and went to play other games and found that there are, indeed, quite a few superior experiences out there and at this point I only log in to cap my tomes.

Not going to do that through another expac.

I also agree, its time for Yoshida to step down. We need a fresh perspective from someone who is in touch with the community and the modern mmo market.