BYE TANAKA!

[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.

[Puck]

I don't like what he did with XI and XIV, but he worked on some of the best single-player RPGs of all time. So, I hope he gets back on that and stays away from online games. He directed the DS remake of FFIII which was great, and was a producer on loads of great games I'm sure you're all fond of: Xenogears, Chrono Cross, Secret of Mana. Oh, and he was a programmer on one of my favorite games of all time: Final Fantasy Legend II (SaGa II in Japan).

So even though I think his policies were bad for XI and XIV, I wouldn't go so far as to condemn him entirely. He's done good work, but online games just aren't his thing and it's taken too long for SE to realize that.

[Nala]

I don't like what he did with XI and XIV, but he worked on some of the best single-player RPGs of all time. So, I hope he gets back on that and stays away from online games. He directed the DS remake of FFIII which was great, and was a producer on loads of great games I'm sure you're all fond of: Xenogears, Chrono Cross, Secret of Mana. Oh, and he was a programmer on one of my favorite games of all time: Final Fantasy Legend II (SaGa II in Japan).

So even though I think his policies were bad for XI and XIV, I wouldn't go so far as to condemn him entirely. He's done good work, but online games just aren't his thing and it's taken too long for SE to realize that.

Eh i hated chrono cross from its storyline basis, while the battle system was somewhat innovative from a standard take turn RPG it felt like a step back from what chrono trigger was also via scraps and tidbits basically suggest that every main character from trigger was dead including robo (prometheus was integrated into mother brain and eliminated during the course of the story) that and it had far too many characters with little to now back ground story or direct story line involvement, having a few POWERFUL but baseless special characters is nice, but not 30+ (iirc 40ish total) non essential and normal playable characters.

That said cross had some of the best music of its time, have a few of em in my mp3 player in fact good nostalgia music.

Heh kind of got off on a long tangent, he has really done some great works in the past but the fact that he will no longer be heading up 11 makes the future of the game seem brighter as such i will not miss him as director of this game, though am sad to know that SE had lost some good expertise in the single player world.

In reguards to the undeserved hate he had garnished while lack luster content was being released due to the new expansion being developed i can't agree that it was totally undeserved, only in the fact that if they were going to go through with this they could have been teasing us with tidbits and hints all the while much like how they use to when these forums first came out instead of letting people get pissy and subscriptions starting to lapse.

Would have kept peeps interested/excited through the bland parts.

tl;dr Disliked Chrono Cross' story line for killing off trigger's characters, will not miss tanaka where 11's concern but SE did lose a great man, he deserved any hate he got during the last year of lack luster content because he failed to hint/tease to keep us placated and or excited for things to come.

[Monchat]

so the guy to replace him is Matsui. Isn't he the guy in charge of XIV atm, who is responsible for the remains of tanakardization over there (relic weapons, world NMs, bad drop rates, bad UI, grind etc). Lets not get the hopes to high.

[Llana_Virren]

so the guy to replace him is Matsui. Isn't he the guy in charge of XIV atm, who is responsible for the remains of tanakardization over there (relic weapons, world NMs, bad drop rates, bad UI, grind etc). Lets not get the hopes to high.

He went to FFXIV after it flopped to do damage control. Don't associate him with the flub that was FFXIV. He also was an underling in Tanaka's FFXI, so he's already familiar with both. Also, he will be in charge of both XI and XIV until a new head for XIV is appointed.

[Puck]

He went to FFXIV after it flopped to do damage control. Don't associate him with the flub that was FFXIV. He also was an underling in Tanaka's FFXI, so he's already familiar with both. Also, he will be in charge of both XI and XIV until a new head for XIV is appointed.

Wut?
Naoki Yoshida, better known as Yoshi-P, is in charge of XIV. He's both producer and director. As for XI, it's been Mizuki Ito more or less in charge for a while now.

[Mifaco]

Every log and ore I NPC from now on, I'll always remember Tanaka

[Evan]

http://www.famitsu.com/news/201206/24016883.html

ーーなぜ、勇退を決意されたのでしょうか？

田中　じつは難病を患っており、体調的な面もあって、今回の決断をさせていただきました。プレイヤーのみなさんやスタッフに迷惑をかけるわけにもいきませんし、どこかのタイミングでケリをつけなきゃとは思っていたんです。またひとりのクリエイターとして開発現場に戻りたいということもあり、退職をお願いしました。

Why, what has been decided to retire voluntarily?

Tanaka : Suffering from incurable diseases and Tanaka fact, there also aspects physical condition, I was allowed to make a decision this time. So it does not bother to go to our players and staff, and I have to put a buttoned at the timing is not somewhere I had expected. Sometimes it is you want to go back to development as a creator of one site, and asked to retire also.

/cheer to you Tanaka San

[MAXWINTER]

I have just resub to ff11 not because of this but because a new expansion is now set for next year , it is what i wanted to see to make me resub, this a few days after i almost left ff 14 for good so i have decided to give 14 another shot.

The direction the games go in will be if i stick with them or not.
Not trying say anyone style is better than another just that i know what style of game play i enjoy.

On tanaka, i wish him good health and respect the type of games he makes but they just not what i enjoyed, really i hate to see people in poor health and it would be great if he can recover and his family there for him because thats whats most important.