Quote Originally Posted by kukurumei View Post
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.
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.