Tanaka or Yoshi?

[gifthorse]

people should learn to read, read my first post , im not blaming anyone im saying the leader should take responsabilities for their screws up. if your team fail you fail. it is really that simple.
edit, and yes yoshida is a face, is what i said initially.read the whole thin before going into the "you wrong" bandwagon.

The trouble with blaming one person is that it serves to suggest that the firing of said person will alleviate all the problems. However, if the biggest problems with the previous development team was not the person leading the team, but instead a combination of time restrictions, low staff numbers, underfunding... well then it stands to reason that blaming Tanaka and firing him for the state of the game will not solve anything. In fact it might only perpetuate the issues further.

Some people need the reassurance that everything was someone else's fault, and they like this someone to take responsibility, but from my perspective, the only thing responsible for the game's failing is a series of chain reactions. Cause and effect. Nobody is solely responsible, and the biggest culprit is probably time-constraints rather than an individual person's failings.

If fiscal backing and time constraints were the biggest factors influencing the game's success or failure, then nobody, Tanaka or otherwise, could have made a better game by September 22nd without simply making a graphical upgrade of FFXI and using all the same network code etc. And if that approach was taken, then the game would have had limited market potential and would likely have failed just as badly as FFXIV, and without the room for improvement.