Quote Originally Posted by Keres View Post
Of course not, but he does have control over the high-level direction that those teams will take. For instance, Yoshi-P has said that he had the UI team (at the very least, possibly more) play World of Warcraft a bit, and told them "this is the level of UI functionality that our worldwide players will expect." Doubtless he's done the same with other aspects of the game as well. I think he deserves credit for setting a high bar for the team with 2.0.
Don't get me wrong, I think Yoshi-P is doing a great job as Producer, he just doesn't do as much as people seem to think he does. Having his team play World of Warcraft to see what a proper UI is only part of the solution...the development team needs to do their part in understanding the research, and applying it to the game. He has helped the game immensely since he first joined, but as I've said before, the major changes are up to the rest of the development team. He can dream all he wants, if they can't do anything with the information, it won't matter at all.

I want to state again, I really do like Yoshi-P! I just feel Producers of games get more credit than is deserved.