Quote Originally Posted by Gramul View Post
The style of gameplay being implemented, has nothing to do with the technology.
That's what we're concerned about. They had the oppertunity to make a solid game built on what XI provided, but they squandered it. They ripped that thing out before it was fully formed and in their folly, worked on creating something that does nothing to innovate or add anything. Not so much a big deal when your only competition was one or two games, but in an age with a well established monolith and hundreds of failed copy cats with minor tweaks and a fresh coat of paint, why on earth would this work?

Like I said, Square is banking on the references combined with the inoffensive nature of "Standard design" as a means of keeping this game alive.

Like him or not, Tanaka had vision. Tanaka had plans. And all of that was pulled out of the oven well before it was fully baked. So we ended up with a soggy cake with looser frosting. The kinda frosting you find on those waxy cookies in a grocery store bakery. The kind that tastes like it's been there for well over a month in spite of the many preservatives heated efforts to hide the lack of flavor and preparation.

First of all, they ripped out what was not working and what the majority didn't want, and removed features from 1.0 to be put back later in 2.0. Even before they removed features they asked us in player polls if we're okay with drastic changes.

The copy-pasta landscape is from the very beginning. 100% done and completed.. self explanatory. All this also contributed to bad embarrassing reviews for a final fantasy game.

Tanaka couldn't add any content because there was an overwhelming amount of problems. As a director and producer of a game, you are the boss of the development team, you have to decide whether or not the game is ready for release. He made some mistakes.