Can someone please translate yoshi-p's heartfelt speech?

[lunaris200]

I know this isn't the right place for this post but I can't create a thread anywhere else. I'm unable to level up because I've barely been able to play.. but thats another issue.

Yoshi p's speech really touched me. Just watching it really made me sad. I tried to use the auto translator on the video but it gave a jumbled nonsensical mixture of english words for captions. I really want to know what he was saying. This is something that truly deserves to be translated because it really seems as if he's speaking from the heart.

If it has already been translated could someone please direct me to it? If not I would kindly ask for someone in the community to translate this for the rest of us who i'm sure are dying to hear his words.

Thank you

[Tazz]

What is the link to this speech/video?

[Kandee]

Translation from Reddit by user FFXIVtranslatorguy:
http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen...speech/cbw9air (also video link there)

TRANSLATION:
Disclaimer: I listened through this once and translated it as I went, and am also drunk. However I am a professional translator for a tech company and the below is probably 90 % correct.

From here on out is the beginning of the speech:

I'm tearing up guys.
First of all I want to say that I am sorry for us having to go into maintenance for the NA/EU servers. I want to apologize for taking precious time away from players during early access.

From here on out is a long journey. starts to tear up, crowd gives encouragement

Its almost been 3 years since I took over development for FFXIV. At the time I hadn't been involved with the game that much, and I thought that it wouldn't be that big of a deal to remake it. I have always loved final fantasy and have always loved mmo's. starts to tear up again At the time, I gathered the team together and told them that we were going to remake the game just two days before we announced it to all of you on December 2nd.

I still remember it now, but at the time, we were in a studio like this one, and Souken (current director of game music) was in the background checking my mic levels. I clearly remember him standing there give me a guts pose (one fist in the air, think rocky) but at the time I had the same kind of worries as the players; how is this really going to turn out?... Isn't this going to be impossible.... pauses

But one by one I got support from all of you. It was said in the questions earlier, but normally an mmo takes 4-5 years to create and carefully plan. Earlier, Wada said his role is a tank. I had the same idea of being a tank when making this game. Up until now I have gone through each facet of the game (implies that he also bore all of the responsibility).

But I am not saying that it is just me who made FFXIV ARR. This was all due to the players around the world, the core staff here, and the hundreds of staff not here today. I came here today planning on not crying, but today we have finally taken the first step with ffxiv arr. And it is only the first step. Honestly I don't think we have any time to rest. We are working on patches and expansions.

More than anything I want to thank the players, especially those who started from the original FFXIV, and those that have joined our community. Thank you all for all of your support so far. I only hope that we have released a game that will not bring shame to square enix. from here on out there is no finishing an mmorpg. FFXIV:ARR is not a game that we made alone, but a game that we made along with all of you. From here on out we home to keep creating this game from here on out, from this place with you for 5-10 years.

I again want to say thank you for all you have done so far and we hope for your support in the future. bows

[CrisGer]

You have done quite well and have the main tenor and tone of his speech. Thanks for doing that for the group here and for the OP> Youshi San is quite an amazing person and is very empathetic and dedicated. We are very lucky to have him.

[Kandee]

Agreed, it is always nice to have someone working on the game that is so passionate about it. I do believe the game will turn out great after the (expected) difficulties in launch

[Pygar]

^^Meow^^

[lunaris200]

Thank you so much! Its amazing to finally know what he is really saying. I really appreciate what he has done with this game.

[Jotunhammer]

Agreed, it is always nice to have someone working on the game that is so passionate about it. I do believe the game will turn out great after the (expected) difficulties in launch

ahh you expected SE to only have 6 servers for 40-50k ppl. I on the other hand would have expected them to increase the amount of server as launchday approached when they saw in prelaunch that the servers was not enough.
Perhaps proper server management is hoping for to much or expecting to much.