BYE TANAKA!

Anyone who had anything to do with Xenogears rocks in my book! :)

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Originally Posted by Dazusu

Read the posts properly. Now they are casual. Before Abyssea, No. Sorry, was I not clear enough the first time?

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Even pre abyssea I would call a large amount of the playerbase fairly casual. That or you have a really broad definition of hardcore.

I mean, I thought it was fairly obvious when you consider the disproportionate amount of people back in the day that had say completed CoP versus number of subscrisers, for instance. Or you had to look no further than Kings/Groundspawns.

Agreed. Most people never even touched a king camp back in the mid-2000s. The "hardcore" players that did things like Tiamat and Kings made up maybe 2% of the population.

inb4 a new abyssea zone in that large chunk of land in the SoA map they showed.

After receiving over 150 heart-felt posts thanking him for his hard work on FINAL FANTASY XI, Producer Hiromichi Tanaka took some time to write his thank you to all of the adventurers of Vana’diel.

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Originally Posted by Hiromichi_Tanaka

Thank you all so much for the warm words. It was due to all of you that we were able to successfully put on VanaFest 2012 and I deeply appreciate all of you adventurers who have been supportive.

Despite my resignation announcement, the following day was the regular run of the mill busy day filled with preparations for the next version update and organizing data for succession and it all hasn’t really sunk in yet. I am sure that up until the last day of next month I will be working just as usual.

As for my illness which everyone has been so kindly concerned about, it is not something that is curable with modern medicine, but neither is it something that will worsen, so it’s an illness that I will have no choice but to deal with.

Finally, I would like to once again introduce my successor Akihiko Matsui and the rest of the development and operations staff who will be working hard together to develop the new expansion as well as the next version update.

Thank you all very much!

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Originally Posted by Ryanx

If do not mind me asking what is his illness?

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This question would actually be considered extremely rude if you asked over here.

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Originally Posted by Hiromichi_Tanaka

As for my illness which everyone has been so kindly concerned about, it is not something that is curable with modern medicine(.)

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His next project is seeking the Holy Grail.

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Originally Posted by Llana_Virren

This question would actually be considered extremely rude if you asked over here.

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I think it would be considered rude everywhere o_O.

Best of wishes Tanaka. Thank you for 10 years.

Good Luck Tanaka!! Thank You for all you do!! =)

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Originally Posted by Camate

After receiving over 150 heart-felt posts thanking him for his hard work on FINAL FANTASY XI, Producer Hiromichi Tanaka took some time to write his thank you to all of the adventurers of Vana’diel.

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i'm actually kinda sad now...:(