What 1.0 and Tanaka did good

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I think Tanaka did good on a conceptual level with the game, it had alot of unique aspects and I know he was trying to separate the game from other MMO's and FF games, unfortunately I think that's also how the game backfired at launch.

Excluding those dumbasses who thought FFXIV would be a carbon copy of FFXI, it had very little of an FF feel to it, I know Tanaka said he was trying to break away from the traditional FF game, but aside from the similarities of the races and some mobs it really lacked that touch that always brought people back for more.

Then we get a "You got Tanaka'd" in beta, basically disregarding alot of input from players about the major flaws of the game's design. While one might excuse him due to time constraints, Tanaka has always had a history of disregarding player input FFXI and and is known to be extremely slow at fixing looming problems unless they were utterly game-breaking and even then they tended to be slow (cough*salvage dupe*cough).

Don't get me wrong, I think of Tanaka as a man of great vision, but his vision has always been very narrow in the eye's of players where he spent too much time looking at the goal of the finished product as he saw it rather than what his customers did.

Stop trying to defend his decisions, or rather lack thereof. It's clear that he flat out didn't give a crap about the game, he has practically said so himself.