"We had a very challenging time trying to relaunch Final Fantasy 14," Yoshida says, "and we don't want to forget the struggles we went through."

"The feeling hasn't settled in yet that I've actually accomplished something," he admits. "We're still constantly developing patches and upgrades that we feel are very important. We're still going full throttle. I'm not sure I'll get the realization that this has actually launched until maybe the first expansion."

An expansion, he says, that will have "the [same] amount of content released with the relaunch."