Tanaka or Yoshi?

[Starlord]

again, look at the recent hits to warrior, monk, and XI in general:

Well, as long as I'm just playiing with my Girlfriend, and just duo all the way to the top.. it will give me that feeling that I had with a full party back in the day when FFXI was hard.. so...

[Squiggles]

Well, as long as I'm just playiing with my Girlfriend, and just duo all the way to the top.. it will give me that feeling that I had with a full party back in the day when FFXI was hard.. so...

lol XI, hard, tanaka XI = hard? lol. just lol

[Starlord]

lol XI, hard, tanaka XI = hard? lol. just lol

Back in the day it was hard yes.. now its a joke.. but with 2 people I get the same feeling... Personal opinion is Personal :P.

[TimonLoon]

Bush is to Obama what Tanaka is to Yoshi.

You can lock this thread now.

[Eagleheart]

The very existence of this thread is exasperating in the utmost.

Rapture (XIV code name) was first mentioned in September at E3 2005. Two thousand, five.

XIV was launched Sep. 30th 2010.

That's not rushed. That is a long freaking development period. Five. Damn. Years. Additionally, they actually had video running at E3 that year, rather than simply mentioning "Oh, hey, we're working on something new", which means the actual development time was even longer than the five years already mentioned.

Then the game tanked. Completely. How many of the players here were actually around for EXP fatigue, and EXP acting like skillups in FFXI? When there was actually no content aside from guild leves?

I think the answer will be low.

Yoshi P and Co. have turned this game around in very short order, and I doubt any of the wistful "Oh, poor, misunderstood Tanaka! He was given but five years to attempt to please this unbelievably ungrateful, perpetually discontent batch of self-entitled new-age gamers" commenters will be anywhere near as 'understanding' of any problems that arise, or continue to exist, come 2.0.

If you have so much bloody faith in the man, Tanaka is running XI. Go there. Just. Go. Comparing Tanaka favorably to Yoshi P makes you either a blind sheep, or a sadomasochist.

This is foolishness.

[bobbygunz]

Bush is to Obama what Tanaka is to Yoshi.

You can lock this thread now.

Bush gave America large scale, open world PvP in Iraq.

Obama might listen to the players, but it's just the same old same old that we see in other MMOs like New Zealand and Sweden. He added new servers to the health care system, but that's pretty tame. He is creating an ambitionless, boring, generic MMO, and quite frankly I don't remember that being in the constitution.

[Eagleheart]

I take umbrage at comparing the spectacular failure of Obama's "If I don't fix this in four years, I'm a one-termer" Arab Spring-turned-winter presidency to the track record of success that is Yoshi P. (>.> ) Talk about shallow comparisons.

[Fear]

FFXI was never really hard, it just took soooooo long to do anything? Wanna PT? Get 6 people, Wanna do a endgame event? Get 18 people, Wanna get a decent, end-game item? Gather 18 people and kill the same NM 100's of times, with 1000's of hours of work to gather pop items for a 1-10% chance of it dropping and then you gotta hope you get it.

That isn't hard, thats a grind.

[Still_Wind]

Thus far I think that Yoshi-P has indeed polished Tanaka's giant turd... but you must admit if Tanaka did not take on this ambitious project to begin with despite being rushed or not this game would not be in existence...There are plenty of great ideas in this game and with that there are indeed many horrible ideas...but all in all Tanaka put it fourth and did all he could with what he was given...could more have been done possibly... but we will never know because we are on this side of it all xD Also to be fair I do not think Yoshi-P should be judged until 2.0 hits because then we can see the fruit of all his team's time and effort...In regards to how Yoshi and his team are handling everything to this point...they have done all they can in the confines they are limited to...there is one thing we can all agree on though we all want this game to be in its best state not just for us but for the franchise...hopefully SE will do what it takes to keep this franchise alive and make this an MMO that captures the nostalgia that FFXI players loved and also bring in new players with great new innovative ideas that may very well change the genre for the better!

[Elexia]

As far as who is responsible for the games premature release... no one can say 100% whose fault it was....

Anyone in the business world can say who it was. Tanaka didn't have the final sayso, also look at the release period and year. Notice how SE was actually lacking in 2009/2010 with very little for 2011? That explains it all and suffice to say, Tanaka isn't one in charge at SE.