At this point, I'm wondering who's in charge of giving the OK to setup and maintain the new servers. Is it the dev team who's responsible for this, or Square Enix themselves? On one hand, it could be severe negligence and apathy on Yoshi's part, or he could have his hands tied by the guys upstairs and be watching his baby crash and burn across the majority of the world with the same disdain as the rest of us.

For all the passion and involvement he's shown in the project up until now, I do hope it's the latter. Considering the Montreal Manager at Eidos ended up leaving because "The lack of leadership, lack of courage, and the lack of communication were so evident, that I wasn't able to conduct my job correctly," I don't imagine this to be very far from the truth.