The interviewer just needs the skillz to fish the info out of him. It may interest you to know that a lot of questions were about PvP—quite representative of our North American players' tastes.
FFXI and other FF players don't care about PvP

Most everyone who plays other games do want it. The lack of PvP is one reason why FFXIV received poor reviews on the gaming sites at released. The lack of PvP is one reason why some players won't even bother picking up the title.

If they have a good PvP content that will be a draw for the game. People will pick it up just to try the PvP if the game sites talk well about it, they can only gain.