Quote Originally Posted by Wolfie View Post
Sorry, I'm not buying that whole "FFXIV was released too early" thing. Tanaka's vision of the game is/was incompatible with what the huge majority of MMO players are looking for. There are dozens upon dozens of concepts in this game that are fundamentally broken, unscalable, and difficult to work with; and as a director, HE'S the one who had the final say in what went into the game and what didn't. Another two years of development under Tanaka would not have made this game much better; it would have been mediocre at best.

Tanaka was the Producer not Director. Komoto was the director.