Everybody asking game related questions, but nobody asking, how are you?

Thank you, thank you.

I am doing a hell of a lot better than I have been doing recently.

I was one of the people who took a longer vacation from winter leave, which may sound strange to some people, because I went to Japan for all of September.

I was off for four weeks straight, which was also fantastic.

But...

There will be...

I mean, why be coy about it?

Like, this particular job and my particular job and then also my particular... my particular responsibility of just carrying on... Like, chat.

I have googled...

I have googled how to take over an established audience on Google.

And then, of course, you couldn't go as detailed as, you know,

open and used to transparency and humor as the saddest one, but whatever.

I have googled that and it turns out that is not something that a lot of people do in this world, in this entire world, in any context.

So finding my footing in this position was very unique on top of other things in life last year.

So we had a couple of weird spells in terms of health last year, which ended up

with me asking for a decent chunk of off time.

I took a bit of off time after 1.1 hit EXP.

I went to Japan.

I took some more time off for winter.

I reshuffled a lot of priorities.

I reshuffled...

I am genuinely better now, and not only in the moment, I feel like I have a very good game plan as to how to stay good.

I've set up structures and priorities in a way that makes me feel very good about how I'm approaching every day.

Routines, training, the amount of work I put into work, time, effort, how I spend my time with people, it's been very good.

Chat, if you are in a rough place yourself, I really would recommend, it's not easy, so many things, not in the least money and safe spaces available to you.

working into this, but to the extent you're capable, I really would recommend you just taking a step back and really, really, even if it's very selfish, in the moment just absolutely realize what's both good for you in terms of making you happy, but also making you feel stimulated.

Because FFXIV made me feel happy, but it also did not stimulate a lot in terms of, you know, growth.

That's the one I'm looking for, which is my very coy way of saying that the heavyweight savage tier was my send-off for that game.

I may do the ultimate, but after that I am done with 14.

Yeah, chat.

If you find something that makes you both happy and also encourages growth, focus on those things and those things only, and slowly rebuild from there.

Slowly rebuild from there.

Not super high prio.

We all love you, Mikael.

I love you guys, too.

the spiel earlier about taking you guys over truly like i mean let's not be coy again i've played games and i've vehemently played some games i have every i have every you know uh insight as to what the vast majority of gaming communities can be like and the fact that you guys are how you are the fact that coffee stay not only student jays but the entire studio

has nurtured you guys, and then you in turn, by the way, nurtured them as now me, and how you guys take care of each other, it is so special, and it has been such a good place to land in.

Not going anywhere anytime soon.

To clarify, does version 1.2 have zero trains?

It has trains.

They are not going anywhere.

People happy.

What is my favorite or what is my FFXIV class?

All of them.

All of them capped.

Play most jobs.

I play everything.

except for Bard and Black Mage at a decently capable level, and my go-to is if I had to pick one and only, well, if I have to pick two and only two, it's Gunbreaker and Viper, and if it's only one, it's probably Gunbreaker.

Monk is also, depending on my mood, Monk can be bigger than Viper, but yeah.

Hot take, Monk is easier than Viper, if you have uptime.

So yeah, gunbreaker go.

Man, I need to, uh, I need to, uh, show you

something.

I met with the directors of FF7 and 14 while in Japan and picked with me a little something on the way home.

It's sitting right there.

Look at that.

Gunbreaker Masterclass.

That's how it goes.

That's how it goes.

That's just how it goes.

any customization items we hear you but not for 1.2 we hear you we hear you