RPG Site: A lot of Japanese developers describe the Japanese development process as a lot less streamlined than the Western one. People sit in a room together and talk for seven hours about the eye color of the main character... [Everyone laughs] Things take a long time to get done. Was that a problem when you came into FF14, and did you streamline it?
Yoshida: [Laughs] When I took over the project it was December 2010. In about a month, I went over the game, figured out what needed to be done and made up a list. At the end of January, I submitted this long, long list to the team, saying this is what we need to do.

In the past 14 months, I've taken the game from what it was to what you've just seen on the screen. I think that's pretty streamlined.
lol So funny.