Quote Originally Posted by Red-thunder View Post
He's probably the one who chose to embark on three projects at the same time. You don't see the WoW team working on three games at the same time. But CBU3 is... There really is no hope that he has time to dedicate his attention to FF14, when he *chose* to put less time into FF14.
Normally I'd side with you Red-Thunder, but I have to disagree on this one. In Japanese business culture if someone gently suggests a thing, it's effectively an order. I imagine it went something along the line of "We're worried about FF16. We really need a proven senior on the project to bring the shareholders some reassurance" which is, insofar as that culture goes, effectively an order to Yoshi directly. While we're both unaware of how the situation went down, it's worth noting that Yoshi has asked to step down from the board multiple times and always been denied. This whole situation reads as Yoshi getting what he wanted.

Granted, that doesn't necessarily mean more time for FF14, as Yoshi is planning his retirement route and has a kid he likely wants to spend more time with. I suppose the proof will be in the 8.0 pudding, but alot of damage is going to have been done by that point. I guess we'll see?