Tanaka is with Gung~Ho

[Coombah]

I would have like to see what he had planned for XIV. Like what was the plan for the vid of the boats, airships and cakes... the areas that we couldn't access from invisible walls or whatever. the other guilds.. the airship landings in different areas No it wasn't just his fault but he was apart of it just the same. I would have let allot of people go after that crap.

[Elexia]

He gets all the blame though when it could have been inexperienced programmers 1-20 that was the cause of everyone's headache, not him.

[Fusionx]

So much for his Quote on Quote "Sickiness" of his. ( but I am glad he is doing alright though, but still).

http://gamerescape.com/forums/viewto...p?f=20&t=14348

I wish him the best of luck!

Find me the quote where Tanaka said he has a horrible life threatening illness that is going to prevent him from doing anything ever again.

Having problems finding that aren't ya?

Tanaka said that it wasn't a life threatening illness, but it was simply something that he would have to learn to live with. Initial news of said illness + boot from XIV = leaving with thoughts of maybe working on some other projects.

That's exactly what's happening now and even with all the crap the community has given him, keep in mind that we may not even have XI or XIV without this guy. So I say lets all wish him the best of luck and look forward to whatever his next project is

He gets all the blame though when it could have been inexperienced programmers 1-20 that was the cause of everyone's headache, not him.

He said it himself, the team couldn't find what to aim for with the game. He just happened to be the captain of the ship that sank. And the captain always goes down with this ship so to speak.

[Rau]

This reminds me of the Jay Wilson Facebook debacle a few weeks ago. Tanaka isn't entirely to blame for XIV's failure. imo, the biggest person to blame is whoever pushed for the 2010 release date. That was stupid.


But the passive aggressive comments are childish at best. Tanaka just looks silly.

[Zumi]

He gets all the blame though when it could have been inexperienced programmers 1-20 that was the cause of everyone's headache, not him.

When your in charge and you see stuff is not going right its your job to fix it before it becomes a problem. Give the people direction. Obviously that didn't happen.

[Coombah]

When your in charge and you see stuff is not going right its your job to fix it before it becomes a problem. Give the people direction. Obviously that didn't happen.

Yep, He should have put foot to ass.

[Seig345]

Guess I never realized Tanaka was taking so much blame on his own for something it took teamwork to make (and fail)...

Also, I don't think he was saying they couldn't figure out what to aim for, the other definition for the word 'realize' that seems to fit better here is they couldn't bring what they were aiming for from the drawing board into reality. He could have been subtly blaming the higher ups for not giving them enough time to achieve what they were aiming for, without dredging up the old arguments all over again.

Edit: Then again, it could have been a translation, in which case who knows what the heck the nuance for that line actually was...

[Gramul]

When your in charge and you see stuff is not going right its your job to fix it before it becomes a problem. Give the people direction. Obviously that didn't happen.

He probably thought they where getting more time by the sound of the interviews. Comments about it needing more work before release, and being pushed to come out in the same window as 13 are pretty heavy indicators of executive meddling.

[Zumi]

He probably thought they where getting more time by the sound of the interviews. Comments about it needing more work before release, and being pushed to come out in the same window as 13 are pretty heavy indicators of executive meddling.

I think one of the major factors was they really wanted to launch before WoW: Cataclysm. They did but the game wasn't complete at all.

[Elexia]

I think one of the major factors was they really wanted to launch before WoW: Cataclysm. They did but the game wasn't complete at all.

Was also the fact they had little to nothing for that fiscal year and trying to follow on XI's heels would have done nicely.