BYE TANAKA!

[saevel]

Considering Tanaka had no idea what he was doing - FFIX has done pretty well for its self being in its tenth year of service, with enough subscribers to warrant a new boxed expansion and thousands of people turning up to VanaFests whenever they're thrown. Not to mention the fact that all the same people who sit on the forums and cry about the game every day continue to be active subscribers, and by extension, players.

Remind me again why we're all still subscribed?

The fact you're still subscribed yourself makes your posts in this thread scream of hypocrisy.

Clearly the man was doing something right; and if you think he made all the decisions of every aspect of game play, then you're severely mistaken. Judging by how well written your posts are, I'm surprised that the content of them is as flatulent as it is. MMOs need teams and experimentation to get things right, and while I agree that FFXI (or any other MMO for that matter) don't always come up with the best ideas - to scream "zomg it's all tanaka's fault" is pretty short sighted.

You can attempt to blame shift all you want, ultimately he's directly responsible for the "nothing shall change" policy that set it post-abyssea. He as much as came out and stated it.

The reason we still subscribe is that while the games been severely damaged, there is still enough gameplay involved to warrant continuing it. Most importantly, I've got years upon years (since 2003) of effort put into my characters, starting over on a different game means starting from scratch, something that I no longer have time to do. For the record I also play DDO and have played WoW / DAOC / LoTR / ect.., I stuck with DDO and FFXI due to the effort I've put into both games.

The "no experience" excuse was fine for the first five years, then they created abyssea which was an amazing step forward in gameplay. Instead of learning what worked and didn't work they freaked out and decided to do everything in their power to send the game back into 2007~2008 era and halt all player progression.

[Benihana]

You can attempt to blame shift all you want, ultimately he's directly responsible for the "nothing shall change" policy that set it post-abyssea. He as much as came out and stated it.

You don't know what you are talking about, lol.

Get me the quote where he states, "NOTHING WILL EVER CHANGE UNDER MY WATCH!".

How unintelligent of you to assume, his saying "Nothing will change" has anything to do with him personally and nothing to do with the team asa whole, let alone SE.

I know it must be nice that since he's gone, you seem so optimistic, telling yourself whatever you wanna believe.

Unfortunately for you, when the content for the next year comes around (you might be gone, idk) ill be sure to swiftly remind you that, it was never tanaka calling the shots in regards to the vision of ffxi. Thats a team effort, thats the companies baby. Tanaka was simply putting in his own input, giving his approval and checking with his superiors like any other producer.

All I got to say is, get ready for more grinds and low drop rates on the epic stuff. SE isn't going to change their vision for endgame, it's just now you have someone new to blame. lol...

Not trying to be cold here, I'm just sick of people blaming tanaka for what they didnt like, and not praising him for the things they did, like abyssea.. He was the producer of it..

Check credits people. Its listed publicly whos worked on what. Tanaka gave us alot of good stuff we all love. We got bad stuff too, but Tanaka shouldn't take the whole blame. ITS SQUARE ENIX, the teams vision.

And now that hes gone? Don't expect anything to change LOL. Nyzul? GOOD LUCK. HNMP? 1.5k sup
ADL? GOOD LUCK. VW? Fixed enough. ODIN V2? Start recruiting

FFXI endgame is GRIND, always has been, since day1, always will be. No matter whos producing. SE releases content in such a way that THE NEED THE BUFFER FROM HORRID DROP RATES, LONG SPAWNS OR COMPLICATED MECHANICS making it very luck based. Thats the way it is guys. Thios isn't new, It's just the slow return of the environment we had back at 75: you need a ls or group to get the best. You also need luck. Those are the factors for having the best in ffxi, and i truly dont think thats ever going to change.