Tanaka was Right!

[SpookyGhost]

I mean, he certainly didn't help the game. After all, he thought us having a basic jump function wasn't necessary, and he thought having a minimap would take away the "fun" of exploration and finding out way through the hot mess that was 1.0 Shroud....

I mean, the jump function still isn't a thing in XI and it works just fine (as it's designed around not needing to jump). I'm personally a fan of minimaps, but you could easily make the argument that in an MMO forcing people to interact with eachother is a large part of the philosophy of the design - and taking away easy navigation tools means you have to actually talk to people and ask them how to get to X.

e: To be clear though, I'm not saying Tanaka is perfect or anything, he made some really awkward decisions with XI too. But he's definitely not the sole person responsible for 1.0 being garbage, similar to how Yoshi-P isn't the sole person responsible for reviving it in 2.0.