This is sad.

[Asgardx]

I appreciate all the hard work Yoshi has done. I've complained, like many of you, but I never stopped supporting the game and continued to hope for it to turn out fantastic. I hope, months from now, that the game is still alive and kicking and not losing population like so many other MMO's seem to do. Yoshi has made a great game, and even great games have their faults. Good job Yoshi, you've surprised a lot of people. Continue to do what you're doing.

[ArkhamNative]

You missed the fact that he tears up exactly after he apologizes for the problems in early access, and then continues sobbing almost through the whole thing. So yes. They're related, understandably so.

My take is that Yoshi-P professionally apologized and did not waver or tear up in doing so. Then, as he collected his thoughts for what he was about to say next, the emotional impact of looking back on all that he and his team accomplished overwhelmed him. I am so happy that I saw him shed tears of relief and joy.

Even if my interpretation is correct, it still doesn't excuse the hate posts directed against the developer team.

[Cranch]

While I agree that sending personal insults/threats to the development team is a ridiculous symptom of an even bigger problem in gaming communities in general, I find it ridiculous how many people have taken this relatively new "blame the consumer" stance on launch issues. You will not find this mentality in any other industry. If a company sells a product, that product is expected to work as advertised, otherwise it is perfectly fine to request compensation for the defective product.

I'm sure I'll be called an "entitled arsehole" for saying it, but if expecting a paid product to work properly means I'm entitled, then yes, I'm entitled as hell and I'm happy to be so. And, whether or not, you kind if owe it to those "entitled arsholes" because they're the ones promoting corporate responsibility and owning up to their mistakes. What the gaming community has deemed "entitlement," other industries have deemed "consumerism."

[JonnyBigBoss]

Self entitled brats really tick me off. The game isn't perfect, but nobody should be talking about bombing japan or making fun of Yoshi-P. That's just insane.

[Koldhara]

although some of the comments in the past few days have been vitrious, mine included, i do not agree with the idea that the anger and frustration people experienced was due to a sense of entitlement. lets get one thing straight. the early access was not a hand out, it was not a freebie, it was a financial transaction. the condition to getting early access was to preorder the game, or have played the game long enough to gain legacy status. NOT entitlement, get that out of you heads.

second thing is that perhaps the way the problems were handled were not dealt with in a manner that might have been agreeable with the NA audience, this is due to a difference in culture not so much that Americans are entitled. perhaps they might be, but in this case its really a minor aspect. This is not a sympathy for the devil type of argument, i am simply trying to be objective, albeit a bit difficult seeing as i also experienced that frustration.

anyone who has bought and played this game and like it on any level can truly see the amount of work that was put into it. one does not put out work like this that does not work hard. Most would agree that Yoshi P and his team did a fantastic job on all levels.

Now, when people are enraged and they need someone to blame, they find the easiest target, this being SE and by extension Yoshi. perhaps that might not be fair but it is how the world works. Everyone does this in any part of the world, perhaps in this case, it was more visible on the NA forums, but I imagine if it had been on the JP servers things might have gone differently, but the frustration would have been visible too.

all in all, this has been a trying time for everyone but once everything is fully in order, we will all look back on it and smile. if any of us is going to play this game, and ultimately pay for it, we will have expressed our interest and gratitude regardless of what has transpired here in the past few days. /2cents.

[Kalam]

Ha! For once its nice to see a supportive community. I don't blame the Dev team, I think they have done a outstanding job. But I wish SE would atleast say they are working to resolve the login issues. The lack of communication is causing the anger.

[ryuhikari550]

I think its funny how everyone is complaining about the servers being full or whatever, I get home around 5pm try to log on with "Server Full" Messages, I try for about 5 minutes and I'm in and playing till 12am no problems. People are just impatient and stupid. I'm actually glad they are complaining because if they keep it up they might get pissed off and quit, which is PERFECTLY FINE with me.. easier for me to log and removes those negative people from the community.

[reaver84]

I think its funny how everyone is complaining about the servers being full or whatever, I get home around 5pm try to log on with "Server Full" Messages, I try for about 5 minutes and I'm in and playing till 12am no problems. People are just impatient and stupid. I'm actually glad they are complaining because if they keep it up they might get pissed off and quit, which is PERFECTLY FINE with me.. easier for me to log and removes those negative people from the community.

I think people are upset because they have to "keep trying" to log in. A lot of these rage threads would not exist if we weren't forced to manually sit and keep clicking or pressing 0 to try over and over again. A queue should have been properly implemented. I don't mind server caps or character creation restrictions, those are expected at major launches ... I just don't want to sit there like an idiot tapping the same button hoping I get in. It's ridiculous from a client/customer point of view.

[Khalen_Shield]

It truely is sad, I'm upset about the servers too but not at Square.

The trash filled up the Welcome to Eorzea with hate and threats and it made me more and more mad...

I am glade to be on the server with the best community, and feel sorry for the people who have to share the same server with this filth that are from gamefaqs, reddit etc.

[Capnspiike]

Here's a Translation from Reddit. Credit goes to FFXIVTranslatorguy - http://www.reddit.com/user/FFXIVtranslatorguy



Link - http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen...speech/cbw9air

Just.... Wow....