Quote Originally Posted by Shiyo View Post
Quest hubs, instanced dungeons, these two things will do the complete opposite of what Tanaka wanted. He wanted to band the community together and create big airships and boats and headquarters and stuff. Instances(4 man) and quest hubs(solo prob?) will make the community smaller, and grow into small cliques, making this MMO more anti-social, instead of more social.

Tanaka's dream was wonderful. I wish it could've came true ;_;
More rose-colored goggle nonsense. The cliques exist either way. The cliques have a MUCH bigger impact in games like FFXI where your progression is tied to a large group of people. Such games also can stunt someone's growth for not being with the "right" crowd.

As far as the whole "Yoshida hasn't done much", I will say what got him looked upon so favorably was the fact that FFXI made a complete 180 in development not long after he was put in charge. It's not much seeing that SE was ignoring that game hoping players jumped to FFXIV, but its there. The deal breaker with Yoshida will be what happens to the hybrid jobs under his watch. Tanaka has lolDRK (pre two-hander update) and refresh whore RDM under his belt. Hopefully Yoshi-P doesn't go down that path.