I'll support Hiromichi Tanaka regardless, How about You?

[Ilean]

Only if you are a moron, because FFXI is still going today

So is AIDS.

[Nuru]

So is AIDS.

In your own context, AIDs was a good thing?

[Rowyne]

interview they ask him how did he get the role and he said because i play a lot of mmo and they think i would do a good job.

I'm sorry, but someone with MMO experience is exactly what this game needs. SE is completely out of touch with the market.

When FFXIV was released, we all thought, fantastic! They've gotten 8 years of experience with FFXI to take everything that just didn't work, learn from their mistakes, and make it better.

And then when you actually played it, it was like they hadn't learned a damned thing. In fact, in some areas, it felt like they had taken a step backward.

Here's Yoshi-P's experience with playing MMOs (source):

Yoshida: The first one I tried was Diablo and that lasted about a year. After that I played Ultima Online for about 2 and a half years. During that same period, I also played FPSs like Unreal Tournament. I still do play FPSs actually. After that came Diablo II and the expansion pack Lord of Destruction. I played that for about a year and a half. Then I played Dark Age of Camelot for 6 years. Of course, I spent some time in EverQuest and World of Warcraft as well.

I'm thrilled that he's not only played other MMOs on the market, but his favorite MMO (DAoC) was a western MMO! He's played the standard staples, EQ and WoW. Finally, maybe someone who can understand what we need and come to expect from an MMO, because Tanaka is clearly out of touch.

[Zenaku]

I'm sorry, but someone with MMO experience is exactly what this game needs. SE is completely out of touch with the market.

When FFXIV was released, we all thought, fantastic! They've gotten 8 years of experience with FFXI to take everything that just didn't work, learn from their mistakes, and make it better.

And then when you actually played it, it was like they hadn't learned a damned thing. In fact, in some areas, it felt like they had taken a step backward.

Here's Yoshi-P's experience with playing MMOs (source):



I'm thrilled that he's not only played other MMOs on the market, but his favorite MMO (DAoC) was a western MMO! He's played the standard staples, EQ and WoW. Finally, maybe someone who can understand what we need and come to expect from an MMO, because Tanaka is clearly out of touch.

No wonder he adding dungeons he play blizzard and western mmo -.- you can add western stuff but don't make this into a dam wow clone....

[Nuru]

I'm thrilled that he's not only played other MMOs on the market, but his favorite MMO (DAoC) was a western MMO! He's played the standard staples, EQ and WoW. Finally, maybe someone who can understand what we need and come to expect from an MMO, because Tanaka is clearly out of touch.

Yoshi is the best candidate to be working on FFXIV along side Tanaka, who created that virtual world and is going to continue telling the story.

[Rowyne]

No wonder he adding dungeons he play blizzard and western mmo -.- you can add western stuff but don't make this into a dam wow clone....

FFXI had dungeons, WoW just took it a step further by making all of them instanced instead of letting other people come in and interfere. And don't forget about BCNMs, which were instanced single-boss encounters. Adding fully instanced dungeons won't make this game a WoW-clone, it'll just be implementing them in a way that many other games have realized works. Making all your party and end-game content non-instanced is an outdated concept.

I say thank the Twelve we're getting instanced dungeons. I love them.

[Ilean]

In your own context, AIDs was a good thing?

Nope.

/moarchars

[Neptune]

Only if you are a moron, because FFXI is still going today

So is AIDS.

lmao! i <3 Ilean

[Zenaku]

FFXI had dungeons, WoW just took it a step further by making all of them instanced instead of letting other people come in and interfere. And don't forget about BCNMs, which were instanced single-boss encounters. Adding fully instanced dungeons won't make this game a WoW-clone, it'll just be implementing them in a way that many other games have realized works. Making all your party and end-game content non-instanced is an outdated concept.

I say thank the Twelve we're getting instanced dungeons. I love them.

there a big diff from bcnm and dungeon in ffxi vs wow version.

you love them the first few time you do them then when you do them 500times on other jobs/class you get bored out of your mind with it.

[Griss]

No wonder he adding dungeons he play blizzard and western mmo -.- you can add western stuff but don't make this into a dam wow clone....

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