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I also wish I could have seen Tanaka's FFXIV completed, it was obvious that the original launch was rushed and it was nowhere near ready and Tanaka got thrown under the bus for it. Sure his bad management may have lead to the delays and it not being ready in time but I'm sure it was Wada who forced the launch date. It did have some good idea's but the ones that where implemented were poorly executed due to bad server structure and a terrible game engine. I wonder if those rumours of FFXIV being outsourced to China for development where true?

The rumour was that SE outsourced a lot of FFXIV's development to Chinese teams for cheap and when they got the game back it was in a big mess but none of the JP team could translate the Chinese to fix it so they had to redo massive amounts of work which put them miles behind for launch. Just by playing FFXIV at launch you could see massive amounts of content had been obviously and crudely pulled at the last minute, there were loads of zones blocked off with invisible walls and landmarks that had no purpose. Seriously do you think they would really want to launch an MMO with only a handful of story quests? I don't think so, they were pulled out at the last minute while SE scrambled to fix actual core mechanics of the game. In early interviews Tanaka said that FFXIV would ship with enough content to keep you busy for 2 years, why would he say that and then ship with zero content apart from Guildleves? Something big must have happened for them to do what they did and launch how they did with a completely barebones MMO which is why the China rumour does make sense.