Simplicity over complexity, time to change.

[Tupsi]

Tanaka had ENOUGH time.

2007 (Physical Production start) - 2010 meanwhile still producing Wings of the Goddess content using the same team isn't enough time. As many of the people who seem to hate XI on here not realize as they didn't play at the time, it was very obvious when FFXIV went into actual production because WoTG was left unfinished far longer than any other expansion in XI's life span - WoTG didn't finish until after XIV was pushed out the door by Wada to try to beat Cataclysm.

Coincidence? If you say yes, that's just ignoring the obvious.

If Tanaka had stayed, it would still be a dead game to this day....

Yep, kinda like XI died after a yea....oh. It's easy to hate on Tanaka while ignoring the root of the problem. Oh btw, did you know? YoshiP stated when he took over his first goal is to push out the content started by Tanaka's team which was up until around 1.20? Meaning the main things Yoshi himself did was 1.21 - 1.23? So it was pretty obvious the only true issue with the game was using an engine not suited for MMORPGs, as even Yoshi himself has stated. It's like trying to build an MMORPG on the Nintendoware toolset, you can do it but I guarantee there will be foundational issues.