Quote Originally Posted by Kiote View Post
People need to stop bad mouthing Tanaka so much.. The man is a Game Development Genius. One failure doesn't discredit his 20+ hits.. I can pretty much Guarantee you Corporate was to blame for this games release, not Tanaka.
Guildleves were always meant to be the "main part" of the game until Yoshida told us no. Those were horrible.
Fatigue was also a horrible aspect to be in the game. It's finally being removed.
The world has no reason to be so big without any new monsters being added.
There weren't many (if any, not sure) side quests until Yoshida took over.
Crafting is and will be a pain in the ass until it is reworked.
Market Wards are a good idea but they will never work properly or as well as an interface shop.
The UI is horrible and bass ackwards.
The battle system is terribly balanced right now and Tanaka didn't show any signs of balancing it. It was even worse with a 15 player cap.

And on top of that there was barely anything more than leves, behests, 12 main story quests, and grinding on release.

And this took him 5 years? Sorry his past games may have been good, but you cannot deny that even if this game was rushed, it was and is crap until a lot of the systems are reworked.