If SE had to hire one person

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Originally Posted by Munba

The thing i like about that ArchAge is the freedom you have to do everything. Climb to reach high place, navigate with ship around the world where you want, build everything, etc (i imagine you could fly everywhere in the future). That is the true strenght that every mmorpg should have imo.

Yeah, it's cool that the trees actually exist and can be jumped at, climbed, touched, grown. They aren't just a figment of our imaginations like in FFXIV (a 3 dimensional background to breathe life into the linear treadmill we're all on).

That Kuro guy... Wait nevermind.

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Originally Posted by Rydin

We all talk about Yoshi P being the new Director/producer and all... but you have to know that Tanaka is still in the mix, and even if he isn't the lead, I'm sure his ideas will still prevail most cases.... He is a leader, simply put, and any team he is on, he will be the unofficial leader....
So if you think Tanaka is not still pulling the strings... well...

Then this game really has no future...

I never agreed with Tanaka's "let's attach a blatant timesink to everything so that everything in the game takes more time to complete than it already does". I still have nightmares about how pointless chocobo raising was. Vana'diel never felt alive when you saw no one outside the cities aside from the outpost NPCs. Class design and roles chosen never mixed with me. His team ruined Red Mage in a way that I fear is irreparable, for one. His team alos allowed the garbage that was utsusemi tanking. His team still lived in the stone age of classes existing only to support, despite development everywhere else getting with the times. Then you have failures like augments, pointless fishing nerfs, pointless gathering nerfs, not to mention the failure that was crafting overall (hint: rarity based systems never work). And that's the short version, by the way.

On topic, I'd nominate pretty much anyone that worked on the writing for the SaGa games up until Saga Frontier to help flesh the lore out.