Welcome the new Assistant Director for FFXIV: ARR

[AsterBarnivere]

For the record, I like Tanaka. I think there were problems with XIV beyond just Tanaka's direction, and some of it was poor executive decision. It was not ready in the slightest to be released. You can't say that Tanaka is good at offline games and bad at MMOs, a game is a game. If an MMO is lacking it's lacking primarily in social structure and that's not what XIV's original problem was.

Exactly.

Tanaka shouldn't have all the blame here, he wanted more time and it wasn't given to him, one man shouldn't be blamed for the faults of many others besides himself.
Tanaka had really good ideas for this game, REALLY GOOD (That may never be implemented)
You all didn't forget about this did you?
Cake making, ship battles, etc.
He had no experience in mmos either when FFXI came along, (This was WAAAY before WOW came and kicked FFXI off of it's pedestal) yet it happens to be one of the most profitable in the numbered series of the FF franchise.

You're all so pent up on your Tanaka/ new ASSISTANT director hate, you've all pretty much blinded yourselves to what these people have (And have yet to) provide that got us here now.

Look at what happened to TERA, The Secret World and SWTOR, those games suffer from the same thing that plagued FFXIV in the beginning, yet have the nerve to harp on Tanaka and whatnot as if he's the first MMO dev to make these mistakes.

Look at Funcom and Age of Conan, TSW is having problems reminiscent of AOC and TSW was supposedly supposed to be FUNCOM's redemption mmo, but no, they didn't learn from their first mmo either.

EME and TERA, EME is supposedly made up of NCSoft geniuses (Brian Knoxx) and he hasn't learned from AION and his "Westernization is what everyone wants!
theories.

SWTOR... BIOWARE (Don't even get me STARTED on them)

It's better to have failed ONCE in something, and have learned from it, than to have failed once and fail again not learning anything from your first failure.