Quote Originally Posted by Vesperia View Post
He didn't "sell you an unfinished product", SE did that.
I'll give you that, but at the same time he was the reason a lot of things happened that people complained about:

-Surplus
-Market Wards (I know it's a 50/50, but still)
-No traditional FF classes/Lack of uniqeness for each class
-Making DoL/DoHs classes that can participate in the main story
-Poorly optimized game that require a ton of system resources
-Bad control/button scheme
-Laggy UI due to it being server side instead of client side

All of these things (outside of the optimized game, but I'll get to that in a bit) were part of Tanaka's vision and in no way some kind of accident. So I really don't see why people are trying to call the guy a genious for all of that crap.

As for the optimized part, let's face it: XIV could have been a lot less demanding on system resources, however due to Tanaka refusing to listen to people (Which he has a good track record of) do you really think he'd even give 2 sh*ts about the system if he was still the head honcho for the game?