Quote Originally Posted by Lienn View Post
Dude, Tanaka wasn't fired...he was moved back to FFXI due internal pressure you know. Someone HAD to pay for the terrible release...and as producer it was part of his duty to take responsability for this...even if the forced release of an incomplete game was also due the very same internal pressure. To haste the game release in like 6 months (by how it was i bet the original release date would be arond march of this year instead of septemper/2010) they actually lost like 1 year of subscriptions and might be losing another year still since will take time for the new FFXIV to become acceptable.

And yep i am forcing myself to play it...at least for me 50 bucks is a decent amount of money to go to a waste...and since i bought it i also have the right to complain about it here...and if you think complaining won't get me anywhere then its because you have no idea what you're talking about...my "complaints" already got dozen of positive changes in this game and many others already listed at last letter to happen. ^^

Also, not all games need the very same funcionalities...think its cool PW using the very same core system in every MMO? Nop, its not...it might be good for players from older games that already know the functionalities, but for the game itself its bad...it depreciates the uniqueness of the game...but it will be only really noticeable later on, when people start calling it FFXI-clone just like they already do with Rift, calling it WoW-clone. Rift has no identity...and i do am afraid FFXIV might end exactly like it.

And on a side note: Tanaka is a genius. He does is one of the great minds of SE and people should respect it. You just can't expect a playerbase of a bunch of 12~18 years-old people, with most of them having from low to no experience in the area, fully understand what he had in mind when the game was released...specially since he actually had the chance of doing just 1 version update before being moved from producer position.
Sounds like tanaka needs to put a ring on your finger.