Tanaka back in charge?!

[Tawnee]

I don't recall anything mentioning him coming back to 11.

I wouldn't exactly want to make that public either if you know what I mean. But yeah, everyone should have known immediately after the changes to the Black Belt item NMs. This update just solidified the suspicions.

[Atomic_Skull]

Tanaka's always been in a head position of FFXI and still a consultant for XIV. He's been around since at least January by the way, so...there's a big hole that logic.

I remember last year he moved completely to XIV and XI's battle director replaced him here. Then he was booted off when it became obvious that XIV was a massive ball of fail and XI's producer replaced him while the director for Abyssea was promoted to XI producer. Somewhere between then and about 2 months ago Tanana was reinstated as XI's producer.

[Atomic_Skull]

I don't recall anything mentioning him coming back to 11.

Right here

[Insaniac]

Right here

Yeah that doesn't really count as an announcement that he's back in charge lol and that only happened less than a month ago. BTW the second I saw that post my heart sank. I want him nowhere near this game. His ideals are too old school. Don't get me wrong a have nothing against a bit of elbow grease and hard work but ALL Tanaka cares about is keeping a bottle neck on anything that people might actually go after because it's the cheapest and easiest way to make sure the hard cores keep playing but you are gonna see nearly all of the games new and returning casuals jump ship just like they did before when they ran out of stuff to do that wasn't a grueling terrible task.

[Zaknafein]

I for one am very pleased to see the game moving back in the direction of LS based content vs the Mnk & Whm duo abyssea BS. With a bit of tinkering to WoE (3:1 coin trade npc) and to Voidwatch to make drops based more accurately by performance vs random radomness I think we would be headed in the right direction.

[Falseliberty]

I've been a paying customer since '03 and this is the fool that said hey "no windowed mode for u cuz thats for hackers and bots. these are the guys that thought AV and PW was perfectly fine end game content. these where the guys that we begged and begged to fix kings, yet they said naw we don't see a problem

I'm sorry if i sound bitter but most of the old dev crew just didn't listen to anyone back then

maybe the backlash from 14 was a good thing?

[Fream]

A friend and I were joking about Tanaka trying to run XI into the ground, being bitter over having to fall on his sword for XIV (XI funds -> fixing XIV -> possible tinfoil hat?). I hope it doesn't turn out to be true though. 2003 / 2004 were both good years, sure, but c'mon now. That being said, huge LS events can be fun, as long as it doesn't take forever (or 2 seconds) to get good drops. Moderation, blah blah.

[Draylo]

I for one am very pleased to see the game moving back in the direction of LS based content vs the Mnk & Whm duo abyssea BS. With a bit of tinkering to WoE (3:1 coin trade npc) and to Voidwatch to make drops based more accurately by performance vs random radomness I think we would be headed in the right direction.

Same here, I am really glad Voidwatch has that now. Good linkshell event but the only thing is the drop rates are really terrible imo. Every run people complain about getting random synth mats like logs :/ so it kinda offsets the fun challenging fights with disappointment.

[Insaniac]

I don't think anyone is really upset about group activities. VW is pretty fun imo and I'm glad to see challenging content that requires people to have some level of skill to complete. What I'm not glad to see is FFXI going back to the "I've been doing this event for 3 years and I still don't have what I want" model. I've been doing voidwatch pretty frequently with my LS since a couple weeks after it was introduced and I still don't have a single one of the items I wanted from it. That is Tanaka game design at it's finest. There's pretty much no way I am gonna put myself through that again considering I may not even get what I want before the servers go down this time around. I will probably quit pretty soon after the 99 cap if the game doesn't look like it's headed in a direction that is less Tanakafied.

[Hayward]

I for one am very pleased to see the game moving back in the direction of LS based content vs the Mnk & Whm duo abyssea BS. With a bit of tinkering to WoE (3:1 coin trade npc) and to Voidwatch to make drops based more accurately by performance vs random radomness I think we would be headed in the right direction.

You say this so cavalierly, as though there wasn't such a thing as LS drama and politics in the past. I, for one, do not want to go back to a time where you had to apply to the right LS, kiss the right you-know-whats, and submit to the whims of a 15-year-old LS leader with a Napoleon complex in order to get the things you want from the game. I wanted nothing to do with that environment then, and sure don't want anything to do with it now. If that means getting ripped by idiots for wearing my AF3 +1 or +2 gear by 99, so be it. I will not compromise myself for digital trinkets. I didn't get into the game for that purpose.