What went wrong? Is it the game or the grenre?

[indira]

I think SE just doesn't want to learn from Tanaka's success.
In 5 years from now, Tanaka will probably be "that game producer that created that legendary game, our most succesfull title ever", rather than "Mr. Barance".

And Yoshi will probably be "that guy that tried to copy wow"

Learn from Tanaka... he created Japan's most succesfull MMO ever. If FFXI was marketed better, and supported better in none- JP communities, it might have rivaled WoW. But SE never put any money into marketing it outside Japan.

Tanaka put tons of depth in FFXI from aggro system, skill levels, magic, sub jobs, etc. he also said FFXIV 1.0 was not ready for launch.