Trying to understand the negative posts I keep seeing about the Dev Team

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I mean, it's hard to say that Tanaka was asked to resign for not securing sufficient funds, or reasonably imply that Yoshida replaced him for being more demanding, when Tanaka was replaced after repeatedly taking up issues of staff size, funding, and the forced rushed release, with Yoshida then entering with no such immediate deadlines, greatly increased funding, and an enlarged staff....

Tanaka failed; sure. But, it wasn't any accomplishment of Yoshida's to have overcome those hurdles as a producer should; they were concessions finally made with his installment.

If you watch noclip's documentary it's very clear there were major flaws in the way Tanaka was handling the team, even if they don't name him. Every team was doing their own thing with very little interaction with each other, and the team only had experience with FFXI, no one seemed interested in actually researching what's the MMO market like for modern MMOs. It was a recipe for failure even if the endless bugs weren't there.

While the original devs were busy spamming for a party to grind in XI WoW had already reshaped the genre and changed what people expect from a MMO.