Quote Originally Posted by Merylx View Post
Tanaka had ENOUGH time. I'm sorry, but the original FFXIV was extremely bad (subjective of course). It had a terrible UI, terrible animations (the mage animations looked like you were a ninja) and it just felt very rushed. I know a lot of people thought the game was heading in a good direction just before it was closed down, but I think what Yoshi has done with the game is ultimately better than whatever Tanaka did with it. If Tanaka had stayed, it would still be a dead game to this day....
To each it's own, but I wonder if Tanaka had the extra time, money and manpower Yoshi had to develop ARR, how would he had completed 1.0, because there is not "enough time", the time to develop anything depends on the scope of the project, and 1.0 was a bigger, more complex and in depth game than ARR will probably ever be (according to the current direction). Clearly 1.0 wasn't finished or ready for launch when it did, and after having been in 1.0 since the alpha phase 2, I'm sure it needed at least 18 months more of development before even getting into the Alpha phase.

What is true is that Tanaka almost never listened to the player base, but on certain aspects that is not a bad thing, as the players never really know what they want.