BYE TANAKA!

[Yugl]

From Team NA! Good luck with whatever you pick up next~

[saevel]

F*CK YEAH!!!

When are we throwing the wheels up party?

[Phafi]

Let's not have a thread to bash him more, there's been enough of them. It was said he was leaving for "health reasons."

[Yugl]

This isn't a bash thread.

[Llana_Virren]

Let's not have a thread to bash him more, there's been enough of them. It was said he was leaving for "health reasons."

So far not a single bash was posted. Let's read threads before we make remarks on them, shall we?

[saevel]

Let's not have a thread to bash him more, there's been enough of them. It was said he was leaving for "health reasons."

That's code for being forced into retirement.

Last year I said that by 2~3Q FY2012 Tanaka would be forced out of the game due to his inability to listen to players and poor vision for a MMORPG. He has proven to be very capable at making single player console RPGs, and completely inadequate at making MMORPGs. He treated FFXI and FFXIV as just another single player console RPG, but with many players, and look what it did to both of those games. Community members stated several times that things were broken and their "vision" of both games were flawed, he refused to listen, even to his own test server / beta players. They took him off FFXIV to get that game fixed, and so far it's worked extremely well. Now that he's messed up FFXI even more (since abyssea) their pulling him off to increase profitability.

His choice was retirement or being humiliated by being made the executive manager for archival of file 13.

[Phafi]

idk, there was a fuck yeah and it can attempt to prevent future posts doing it.

[Yugl]

Allow me to be clear then. I did not create this thread with the intention of bashing him. However, I cannot control the posts that follow subsequently. That is for other posters and mods to control.

[Zumi]

Can only hope his health gets better after his retirement.

[saevel]

Can only hope his health gets better after his retirement.

His health is perfectly fine. "Health Reasons" is the generic statement used in East Asia when someone is stepping down from a position of influence (Politician / Business) and they want to save face. SE can't publicly fire him as it would make them look bad, so instead they give you a choice, early retirement (all benefits of course) or be put into a position with a fancy title but absolutely zero responsibility or input into any decisions, executive director of a closet for example. Most take the retirement and live out their days doing hobby work, some cling on and refuse to leave.