Quote Originally Posted by Belial View Post
Sounds like another "please hold my hand" and "I can't possibly be bothered to explore on my own, please tell me where to go, what to do and how to do it, so I can mind-numbingly pick away at something."

To discredit a game designer when you've never in your life seen the finished product is asinine.
But since you're amazing, and know all about MMOs and what people want, please, provide a link to all the video games you have worked on, and I will gladly link a list of Tanaka's work... we'll see who has more successful games under their belt, mmk?
Can't help but feel there's a breakdown in communication if you think having some sense of progression through a game's areas (and a story to accompany) would equal hand-holding? Why would I explore the vast emptiness of FFXIV's zones when there's nothing to find? I don't understand the point I'm afraid.

How ridiculous, criticising someone's work = I can produce better? Furthermore, the release date of a product should be it's finish date, if you're at all familiar with the world we live in. Paying for a product for someone to come and tweek it in your house every few months to polish it up from a steaming pile is not good business.

Honestly I don't even know what you're getting at with your post, can't people criticise without having a background in the industry? And yet here you all are saying Yoshida's not going to produce a good game despite the fact we're more likely to see a finished product from him?