Quote Originally Posted by raelgun View Post
And this changes the fact that Yoshi uses strong emphasis of 'Skill gap'?, that stance doesn't change in 3 years or ever really.

Fact is Yoshi P admitted that there is a lot of bad players in this game, also that interview in 2020 with his response is likely just repeating what hes been told to say.

Do you really think Yoshi P really thinks like that? when he him self admits to the skill gap - which is corporate speaking to say in a nice way theres a lot of bad players that is more then expected.
That's a lot of assumptions on what Yoshi-P thinks. Rather, see what the dev team has done in those past 3 years. For better or for worse the skill gap has indeed been closed as jobs are significantly easier to play since 2017.

Since we're assuming about what Yoshi-P thinks, I don't think he honestly cares how good or bad players are, as long as they are having fun (and paying the bills).

Why would someone who
A) publicly encourages taking a time out from the game to play other games,
B) has a strong stance against bullying and/or bully-gating,
C) has actively pushed his dev team to add more and more "fluff" content instead of hard content
...also secretly/privately resent bad players?

I've said it before in this very thread, but:

I think this is the key point that some people just don’t get. Some people see this game that needs to be more demanding of skill or harder to challenge players. The problem here is to the devs, this is “Disneyland Online”. You hang out with friends, you wait in line to go down the same path everyone else does to see the pirates..or haunted mansion..or abandoned mines. (I expect space mountain next!). Pepper in some minis you can pick up at the souvenir store and you’re set.

That is all. This is a virtual theme park. Priority is keeping the vast majority of guests satisfied and wanting to come back. That’s it.
If I wanted to play a game with high difficulty and/or skill, I will indeed play Dark Souls, or currently getting through Ori on hard difficulty. FFXIV is not (and will never be) that game.