Quote Originally Posted by Lienn View Post
not because he's better or worse than Yoshida, but because it would hurt Yoshida's credibility.
Agreed Yoshi-P doesn't deserve any sort of discredit for the fine job he has done so far.

Quote Originally Posted by Lienn View Post
the game never was finished because Yoshida took over before the "retail patch" that was meant to complete FFXIV for release was live...
What retail patch was that? When the game went live I never saw any official mention of a patch that was supposed to finish the game. All I was able to find were references to some game changes planned for winter right after the launch. I had heard a rumor that there were a lot of quests that were supposed to be released with the production launch, but the rumor didn't pan out. I have no idea if that rumor was based on statements from anyone at SE.


Quote Originally Posted by Lienn View Post
Just look at Abyssea...it's what happens when a director actually does not fully understand the concepts or share the view of the former director.
Personally I didn't like abyssea, but I have to admit it did have a lot of good ideas. It also opened up the game for a great many people who played but felt shut out of gear drops from endgame events that took far too much of a time commitment.

Quote Originally Posted by Ilean View Post
Errr all tanaka can ever create is mobs with overpowered AoE and crap drop rates. Let's leave him out of this game as much as possible.
FF XI was a great game and was very addictive, so I don't think its fair to say that of Tanaka. The only thing I can think that was wrong with XI when I started was the rmt, and they were as much a problem as they were because the game was so good they got a lot of business from it.