I still wonder what happened.

[Cendres]

Unless some of us work for SE we probably don't really know how much of the old system was Tanaka's vision or other influences. We do know though that once he left the entire culture of the dev team completely changed. The lines of communication between the players and developers were finally opened. I am very happy that this has happened because when you have even a tiny voice that you know is heard it is much better than shouting at a wall.

Yep, we try to play arm chair developer all the time but really in the end we can take educated guesses but we can't know 100% for sure without being there ourselves. Sometimes it's really surprising how different something is from what it seemed to be from the outside.

[Rentahamster]

FF14's failure was not because they wanted to step away from FF11. That in itself is a decent goal to have.

FF14's failure was due to horribly inefficient development teams, a lack of decent management, an arrogance and complacency that their fanbase will eat up whatever schlock they can serve to them, and a misguided belief that they could release an incomplete game early and just fix it later with patches, as they admitted in this interview: http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/final...and-sage-sundi


fake edit: what Ashthra said

[TonyMontana]

FF14's failure was not because they wanted to step away from FF11. That in itself is a decent goal to have.

FF14's failure was due to horribly inefficient development teams, a lack of decent management, an arrogance and complacency that their fanbase will eat up whatever schlock they can serve to them, and a misguided belief that they could release an incomplete game early and just fix it later with patches, as they admitted in this interview: http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/final...and-sage-sundi


fake edit: what Ashthra said

Yeah its pretty sad how stupid they thought we were.