I feel bad for Tanaka. (Tanaka appreciation thread)

[Zenaku]

He said they would be more Western, not more WoW. There were/are Western MMOs other than WoW, you know.

It be more western which = WoW WoW is mainstream so when we talk about anything that is dungeon,raid battle ground and so on we talking about wow the rest are just wow clones. Aka Rift,aion and so on are just wow clone following what wow did.

Why can't FFXIV make dungeon more there own? not follow how western does it we going to get bored of it within the first few hours and everyone would be on here bi????? about it you wait and see.

[Starlord]

For the love of god.. This game is not turning into wow, Wow is it's on Catagory that is declining as of late ( they still have alot of subs but they lost alot recently) so put a pin on the wow clone subject sheesh lmao!

[SuzakuCMX]

It be more western which = WoW WoW is mainstream so when we talk about anything that is dungeon,raid battle ground and so on we talking about wow the rest are just wow clones. Aka Rift,aion and so on are just wow clone following what wow did.

Why can't FFXIV make dungeon more there own? not follow how western does it we going to get bored of it within the first few hours and everyone would be on here bi????? about it you wait and see.

Everquest, Guild Wars, Ultima Online, we really don't know what he means by "more Western."

[Neptune]

It must have been awful working beneath the tyranny of the Square Enix boardroom, slaving away day after day trying to meet a deadline, only to have customers hate your product in the end.

What a thankless task.

Well not anymore! Thank you Tanaka.

Edit: Can a moderator please forward our sentiments to Tanaka-san.

Who said that even happened like that? For one, I'd like to know the real story. And two, I definitely have some things I'd like to pass on to Tanaka.

A thread appreciating the man who single handedly ensured this game was a failure. Keep on trucking white knights.

LMAO

[Vesperia]

It seems to me that a lot of stuff that was "difficult" (read: impossible) under Tanaka suddenly became realistic when Yoshida took the reins. Case in point: this forum. I remember Tanaka saying that they wouldn't be instituting official forums because the developers speak Japanese whereas many of the players do not. It just wouldn't work... But turn the game over to Yoshida, and here we are. Apparently they have these people called "translators" who can post messages from the development staff in English, French, and German. Voilà! Official forum.

I've enjoyed several games Tanaka has worked on, including FFIII and FFXI. But I think Yoshida has a good grasp of what FFXIV and its community need, and he makes things happen. The fact that we're posting on an official site with community representatives that read what we say speaks to that.

For all the good it does the game! lol

[Neptune]

It seems to me that a lot of stuff that was "difficult" (read: impossible) under Tanaka suddenly became realistic when Yoshida took the reins. Case in point: this forum. I remember Tanaka saying that they wouldn't be instituting official forums because the developers speak Japanese whereas many of the players do not. It just wouldn't work... But turn the game over to Yoshida, and here we are. Apparently they have these people called "translators" who can post messages from the development staff in English, French, and German. Voilà! Official forum.

I've enjoyed several games Tanaka has worked on, including FFIII and FFXI. But I think Yoshida has a good grasp of what FFXIV and its community need, and he makes things happen. The fact that we're posting on an official site with community representatives that read what we say speaks to that.

Yeah for real! Excellent point! If we were under Tanaka's rule, well, we wouldn't even be having this conversation would we! There would be no forum to have it on. Very striking when you think of it that way.

[Majidah]

Yeah, the same product with the rushed release.

That's funny, because I paid for a full game. Tanaka basically made really pretty chair legs that could potentially have been base for a nice chair (with the ammount of work needed to be put into it outnumbering the one that was actually done), and sold them to me as a finished product.


Then he balanced them inbetween the ground and my asscheeks and watched as I wiggled in agony trying to make them work as a real chair.

I can't believe people are making a tanaka appreciation thread. Did the guy have good ideas? Sure. But the ass sold us an unfinished product. It was so unfinished the new head designer isn't ready to charge the players to pay a monthly fee.
Where has tanaka said he felt the game was unfinished and a bunch of faceless suits forced him into releasing it?

And even in that case, tanaka himself stated he designed the awful launch UI. And that was pretty much the one complete thing on XIV.

Rushed release? Get a grip, there was a lot wrong on xiv due to tanaka's lead that had nothing to do with time, and so very little right.

[Vesperia]

He didn't "sell you an unfinished product", SE did that.

[Majidah]

He didn't "sell you an unfinished product", SE did that.

He was xiv's game producer.
You know what the new game producer says? That he doesn't feel XIV is up game standars to charge for it and that they won't charge players until he feels it is. who decides when a game is up to par to be commercializable? Could it be... the... oh I know,

the game producer.

[Nayt]

Tanaka was the producer, and by taking that role he was responsible for the shitty state the game ended up in. All the crap about it not being his fault is irellevant.

Also; ten year old can have a "vision" of how he wants something to be