I highly doubt the questions being answered will be to do with the past. I'm pretty confident that they will be focusing on the future. To answer a question like "Why did this game fail?" is to talk about it in a past tense and to concede that the game has failed entirely, which means there is absolutely no purpose in continuing with the game. That's definitely not what they're going to be discussing in the live letter. The letter from the producer has always been about what is happening at the moment and what will go on in the future - the questions about the past are not for Yoshi-P to address as far as I'm concerned. If someone came up to me and asked why my role in staff was a joke because of what the previous person did (and to be blunt, yes, they were a joke, they didn't know what they were doing at all), I wouldn't waste my time with them. That's not my fault and it's not my concern, my concern is to fix things, not to talk about how the past person smurfed up as if it was something I had any control over or any responsibility for.

This is not Square Enix fielding an open questions day. This is Yoshi-P doing a letter from the editor in which he will reply to questions, and that he will be replying via YouTube, live. That doesn't suggest any kind of danger - he could have the whole thing scripted as if he was typing it out as he usually does. It just shows that SE - or at least, Yoshi-P in particular - is making a real effort to try to be more "in touch" with the playerbase.

Perhaps asking you to reply to this thread was a bit naive of me considering you probably don't keep up with FFXIV. I was more interested in your thoughts as to whether this is a step forward for SE - to have 'live' YouTube videos where the producer addresses the future of the game. To my knowledge, this has not been done before, but I could be wrong.

They have already conceded that they failed, but that was someone else's mistakes and right now the general opinion amongst players of FFXIV* is that is has improved dramatically since it's rather horrible debut. It's making leaps and bounds now and to talk of the failures of a year ago, for me, would be a mistake on their part and in all honesty I doubt any of the players of the future will be interested in what happened a year ago nearly as much as they will be interested in what the game is going to be in a month or a year from now.

* Going by my experience of the FFXIV forums and from talking to those who play the game.