Mark of Tanaka

[Nakiamiie]

[...] people follow yoshi like sheep and praise his every move. [...]

Just because you don't understand why something was brought into the game doesn't mean others do not as well. Many follow Yoshi-P because they actually enjoy what was brought into the game, others who don't enjoy it still understand why it was a good idea (or at least on paper it was) to bring a feature in.

Because you don't understand doesn't mean others are woolly ruminant.

[darkstarpoet1]

Just because you don't understand why something was brought into the game doesn't mean others do not as well. Many follow Yoshi-P because they actually enjoy what was brought into the game, others who don't enjoy it still understand why it was a good idea (or at least on paper it was) to bring a feature in.

Because you don't understand doesn't mean others are woolly ruminant.

that's not what i am talking about. i am talking about the yoshi-p ism cult and stuff like that. i am not saying some of the things are not better, but some things are just worse. all i am saying if something bad comes into the game it is automatically tanaka's fault? really? if yoshi gets credit for the good then he gets credit for the bad also. like i said i don't blame either to be honest.

i think the majority of the reason the game failed from the start is wada stuck his nose in and forced things out before they were even close to ready. that forced things to be released even before the issues from beta were taken care of. he believed the game would survive on name recognition alone so he forced an early release.

[Bahn]

Just because you don't understand why something was brought into the game doesn't mean others do not as well. Many follow Yoshi-P because they actually enjoy what was brought into the game, others who don't enjoy it still understand why it was a good idea (or at least on paper it was) to bring a feature in.

And just because *you* think you understand why something was brought into the game doesn't mean you ACTUALLY understand why it was brought in either. I can turn that logic right back at you. darkstar has a point, sometimes the devs seem to "forget" why they're in this whole mess in the first place and make these really dumb game design decisions that make no sense. However, I'm not in total belief that it is Wada behind these direct decisions - that's not the job of a CEO. The CEO may tell you to "make content for our current player base" but I'm not sure he's going to tell you "make this content so that it requires a time sink that will force players to take a longer time to complete it".

...Come to think of it, that does sound like something a CEO could meddle in to increase the longevity of said created content...

Anyway, this is what the community is for, to keep the dev team on track and to constantly remind them Not To Do Certain Things. The Prime Fight requirement was obviously a huge screw up on their part, as you got enough people complaining (or as defenders might say, whining) about the unnecessary time sink required to even get to the content. They'll implement many great things, and will implement just as many bad things. As I've said it once, and I'll say it again, I think it's up to us to keep them in check.