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Live translation by @reinheart Timing by me
This one is going to be hard for me
First off, before my message, Early Access was going on the past 3 days
and for those playing on NA/EU server we had to place several maintenance
which caused loss of precious play time
and since this event is being broadcasted to worldwide let me apologize
I am really sorry, our long journey is starting from here so
I am hoping we will be able to recover this over those time.
(YoshiP ; ; Ganbatte..... daijoubu desu yopshipun ; ;)
ummm, since I took over FFXIV it’s almost 3 years now, at the beginning,
at first I didn’t change the original game much and thought we should be able to continue somehow
but after all, I personally I love Final Fantasy and MMO
when I gathered all the staff to tell them that we’re going to rebuild the entire game
this was done only two days before announcing to everyone on December 1st.
I still remember that day, it was a room like this
and there was a mixer (sound) on top and Soken was there adjusting the mic I was going to speak in
and I won’t forget how Soken was doing the guts pose (cheering him)
but honestly the dev teams feeling was just as same as everyone else
they were like “can we really fix this thing up?”
or “it’s going to be tough”
Really... for every step of the way
to everyones support...thank you
...Earlier it was in one of the questions but it’s really hard, to build a MMORPG
it normally takes at least 4-5 years
we wanted to get this out as early as possible to be able to do that, we had to plan it out without rushing
as Wada mentioned about operating a business, your role is a Tank
just like that I tried to a be a Tank and got it to where it is now
FFXIV was able to get here thanks to everyone
And I’m not the one that made FFXIV ARR it was thanks to all the players around the world, the core dev staff here
and all other hundreds staff that couldn’t make it here today, thanks to you all, we are here today.
I wasn’t going to cry since today marks a day where we take our first step for Final Fantasy XIV, we only took the first step forward
I really believe that we really don’t have any time to take a break, dev team and myself are already working on the future patches and expansions
for those players from playing from previous XIV, we had times where community members left in the middle
and I believe there were other people that has been said many things from outside, myself being a MMORPG player, I really understand how hard that is.
for us it was a really short 3, 2 and half year but all the players, we really made you all wait and support us this long,
I believe we were able to release a Final Fantasy title that brings no shame to its name sake legacy
from here on out, for an MMORPG there is no such thing as “complete”
we will continue to keep on going with everyone. This Final Fantasy XIV is a Final Fantasy XIV which was built with everyone
so we would like to continue doing so for this Final Fantasy for 5-10 even after that we would like to continue operation without forgetting this moment here, please continue to support us, thank you.
okay, for the end we would like everyone to be happy/laugh and wave goodbye, we will see you all again in the next Producer Letter Live or in Eorzea
That concludes the mini (extra) producer letter live for Final Fantasy XIV ARR launch event in Shibuya, Hikarie. Thank you all
YoshiP: Really Thank you very very much!