Tanaka or Yoshi?

[Munba]

I think Yoshi is making something really concrete to resuscitate the game but i hope he will not drop the old nice ideas still not released. Like the 'crafting players sinergy' to create something big (like a ship) or that special video (in the Vanadiel Event) in which we saw that sort of ship battle. I'm looking forward the Grand Companies for example just because it was an idea of the old team (by Tanaka?) but probably expanded now. We'll see.

Maybe a sinergy between Tanaka and Yoshi would have been perfect.

[gifthorse]

I think Yoshi is making something really concrete to resuscitate the game but i hope he will not drop the old nice ideas still not released. Like the 'crafting players sinergy' to create something big (like a ship) or that special video (in the Vanadiel Event) in which we saw that sort of ship battle. I'm looking forward the Grand Companies for example just because it was an idea of the old team (by Tanaka?) but probably expanded now. We'll see.

Maybe a sinergy between Tanaka and Yoshi would have been perfect.

One of the reasons I actually even call into question Yoshi's suitability as leader is because SE has basically stated they are - for now anyway - no longer working on companies in the same way that Tanaka's team envisioned.

Player-made ships and housing were some of the first things to get cancelled or put on hold while Yoshi's team works on The Grand Companies which will function more like quest-hubs by the sounds of them.

[Munba]

Player-made ships and housing were some of the first things to get cancelled or put on hold

I never heard about it. Where did you read it?

[gifthorse]

I never heard about it. Where did you read it?

I forget which article, but it was a gaming website interview I believe. Yoshi said that their team hadn't thought about what companies would actually do beyond making ships and houses, so they are first going to focus on Public Companies (governed by NPCs) rather than Player Companies for now.

[Munba]

I forget which article, but it was a gaming website interview I believe. Yoshi said that their team hadn't thought about what companies would actually do beyond making ships and houses, so they are first going to focus on Public Companies (governed by NPCs) rather than Player Companies for now.

I think i'm going to cry in a corner now.

Well, i'll wait to see what Companies are now then..

[Mack]

Are you guys serious? Tanaka didn't get call in September telling him the deadline is in a couple weeks, he knew long before, so the failures of the game fall on his shoulders. Furthermore, this game has been released for over 6 months now and it still has no content, so on top of the fact that the game was buggy, lame and generally crappy at release, they didn't even have much in the works for it at that point in terms of content - this tells me that they realistically thought that people would be completely happy with guildleves...they're delusional and I still hate guildleves and how central a role they play in the game. Tanaka sucks, period. I loved FFXI but he didn't make an FFXI he made a broken and a half of a game that is FFXIV and I don't want to play any more of his games no matter what they are.

On top of this, I don't care who is at the helm to be honest (apart from Tanaka). Yoshi-P isn't the second coming of Christ, he's not special because "he connects with the fans", he's a SE employee and he's doing what's told of him. Trust me, the old dev team and the new dev team are one and the same save for a few people and any additions to the team over time (which happen whether Tanaka or whoever was leading, not because they needed fresh faces) - you can bet that Tanaka is still very much involved with this game. Anyway, you guys need to be patient, this game is in beta still and the one time you can truly judge it is at PS3 release.