Quote Originally Posted by Bourne_Endeavor View Post
Yes and no. 1.0 had numerous design decisions that were inherently flawed from the get go. There are interviews with the dev team who outright laughed at the idea of adding something as simple as jumping because "it's not gonna be needed." SE's insistence on releasing it prematurely guaranteed the forthcoming financial disaster but Tanaka and Komoto share a large portion of the blame too.
Are they at fault some yes? I don't think they share majority or even large part of the blame cause I'm sure there were people above them over seeing their work. If there was then they knew a crap product was being made and hence should of never been released in that state. So ultimately SE upper management takes most the blame. They shoved it out earlier (September 2010) to compete against WoW new expansion Cataclysm (December 2010) and lost that battle along a lot more then just their pride.