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[Rutelor]

Thats what happens when you have an old ignorant noob at the top running the operation when he knows sweet fuck all about the actual product. And obviously gave up any sort of passion for his craft along time ago.

*cough* wada *cough*

I think your coughed up the wrong name, Kam.

And let's once and for all dismiss this silly urban legend the fanboys created to re-balance their inner haters (not talking about you Kam, but the people that, a while back, decided Hiromichi Tanaka could not have been the one that screwed up the game, so they found the next-in-kin to blame, and invented a story full of back-office backstabbing to convince themselves.)

The only feasible culprit for this sort of pathetic oversight (which by the way, as we all know, is replicated thousandfold in the game's lackings) is Tanaka.

Wada, not precisely an innocent lamb, is a bureaucrat with a financial background (he was once Square's CFO!) that, frankly, could not have been within a mile of the game's code and system implementation. He has no background in system design, coding or game production; he never wrote a line of code, anywhere. That doesn't make him blameless in the FFXIV debacle, but certainly, we cannot blame him for the absence of essentials, like this, the game should have included no matter what.

Tanaka was always the ostrich-like fool, who thought it virtuous not to even try any of the world's other successful MMOs. He designed some good old games, but the world in which they were good changed, and Tanaka never noticed.

Again, this is yet another example of how Tanaka, Garriott, McQuaid, and quite a few others, the pioneers and parents of the MMORPG movement, failed to adapt to the technological leaps that the genre they helped create took as their initial successes aged. This is the typical case of the hero falling asleep amidst his laurels: Every MMO each one of those historic names created after their initial, successful one, was a monumental failure. Remember Vanguard and Tabula Rasa, and the rest?

(An exasperated) Rut