Goodbye Tanaka ;_;

[Dashuto]

Tanaka wasn't suitable for MMOs since he didn't want to develop for the community but make the game to fit his views.

Will never forget around ToAU when he lectured in an interview that he hated western players becuase they "try to get us to listen to their ideas about what should or shouldn't be in the game, rather than the japanese who understand it is /our/ game and we are letting them play it"

Pretty much summed up his stance entirely for any who hadn't realized what he was like.

Yoshida see's himself as a sort of shepherd for a game that he tries to make the way we, his consumers, want it though...

Which version of 14 has filled SE's pockets past the brim with cash?

[Zaero]

The disrespect Tanaka gets here for one bad game that was rushed after working on tons of amazing games prior to that is utterly ridiculous.

And yet we blast game companies for one bad game after a bunch of good ones. Gamers are fickle I guess.

[Seoki]

A lot of people LIKE TO forget the majority of the 1.0 changes they liked were made by Yoshi-P

Fixed that for you, a lot of people here have a huge bias towards Tanaka because of his amazing work in his single player games.

He failed miserably on FFXIV and almost destroyed the brand image as a whole.
Major investors left SE because of his mistake, and he almost ruined the company as a whole.
He doesn't deserve the respect towards his ideas for this game one bit.

Single player games though?
I fucking love that guy.

[Amberion]

And yet we blast game companies for one bad game after a bunch of good ones. Gamers are fickle I guess.

It's not SE that gets the blame in this case though. Even when most of it is because of the upper management.

On your edit!

I heard Yoshida followed the road-map that was already made by the previous team. Can't remember where I heard that though. But is it true?

FFXI was never hard. Fact. I you were willing to level another job and gear/use that for content it made it very easy.

All those things I considered being part of making something difficult.

[Blazer]

FFXI was never hard. Fact. I you were willing to level another job and gear/use that for content it made it very easy.

Lol what? So leveling jobs made FFXI easier? ooooooooook

[Tiggy]

XIV failed, embarrassed SE, and disappointed players everywhere. Good riddance. I don't care what he did on other games since what he did here was not good.

[Gramul]

Awful lot of twisted and terrible hate here.

[Elazu]

Don't let the door hit you on the way out!

[Garlyle]

XIV failed, embarrassed SE, and disappointed players everywhere. Good riddance. I don't care what he did on other games since what he did here was not good.

You probably should care. Without him, Final Fantasy as we know it would be extremely different (if it existed at all), given he worked in game design on Final Fantasy I, II, and III.

That doesn't mean he didn't blow it on XIV 1.0 though; there's a crapload of reasons behind it, but when you're sitting as Producer (like Yoshida now is), you shoulder both the cheer and the blame.

[Mugiawara]

Good Riddance.


Long Live Yoshi P! \o/

-Eatin icy donut, see's nasty ass saliva in your gif...slowly puts donut down;
Yiiiikes. xD