Quote Originally Posted by honest_psycho View Post
But to be clear, I very much prefer for Hiroi and his colleages to be FIRED.
This much incompetence is unacceptable and need to have consequences.
That's the thing. If Hiroi put out some good siqequest stuff, then sure, just toss him back in the sidequest dungeon and never let him back out. But even all his sidequest stuff was mediocre. The fact he was promoted makes me think it's some sort of internal Squaresoft politics where it was essentially "his turn" (I've read that's not uncommon at Japanese workplaces) because Ishikawa was promoted. I don't think he did anything that was universally loved like Ishikawa's Alchemist and Dark Knight quests.

If they don't have someone else to take over for him, and if Ishikawa doesn't wanna come back to do the MSQ, then they desperately need to look externally.