In the interview with Zam, Yoshida-san talks about how he doesn't want the player to feel when they first enter the world as "stressful." Now it pleased me very much that he used this particular word because that was exactly what I felt when I got the CE an logged on back in sept. I quit in 3 weeks because of horrible lag, no real directives on what to do or can be done and just a general feeling of the game besting my intellect with the sometimes anger provoking UI.
After awhile I picked it back up in Feb because I would rather be a part of the solution as a resource of input rather than complaints to SE and I thought with all the level of new open communication that this game can be more than what it is and was.
Although it still has a long way to go I know I can trust that the team are working their hardest to make this game the champion it was meant to be. Albeit the stream of information on the things that will give us hope for staying or coming back is at a trickle, but it has been one heck of a month for them in Japan.