What happened to the 8 years of data and market analysis?

[derekx]

There was no saving Tanaka. Even if he was the naive child with a toy while the adults destroyed everything, it was still on his watch.

He had what's coming to him, it was obvious. If you screw up, it's your fault, if the people under you screw up, it's your fault. If you and the people under you screw up, it's your fault.

We can only think that someone drugged him up, and put him in the office chair every day, with how FF14 turned out.

I'm not a fan of Tanaka from my FFXI days, but we really don't know all that went down so I don't think it is fair to characterize him that way.

[kukurumei]

I'm not a fan of Tanaka from my FFXI days, but we really don't know all that went down so I don't think it is fair to characterize him that way.

We will never fully know what really went on in FF14, because it will be bury less it be an embarrassment to the company. It doesn't matter. It was under his watch.

This isn't an over night disaster. It had a particularly long development time, with a particularly long public response to it during alpha, beta, or whatever they wanted to call that. It was his fault because he was responsible for the project, he had to take the fall.

There was never an exception.

Who's to say FFXIV wouldn't have been great if given another entire year to develop it?

Unless Tanaka himself was the one who decided the release date (doubt it), then it's hard to make too many assumptions about his ability to create a good game. The community would have tolerated more development time. The beta testers clamored for it.

I'd say he's definitely guilty of not meeting a deadline, and his fate with the project was expected. But I still <3 Tanaka.

We are 6+ months in with 2 polls. 99% an extra year of development under the same concepts would have not improved it to the point of any success.

If it could have been turned around with a few bug fixes, we would have had it turned around by january.

you don't have people voting for "radical change", "Battle system is crap, overhaul it" "Nothing makes sense", in beta. You solved those at concept.