Quote Originally Posted by Gicker View Post
There's more to this than just following the traditional FF path of creating new games. The world of single player rpgs and that of mmorpgs is very different. What you can get away with in a single player game you can't get away with in an mmorpg. What you're suggesting is exactly what SE did, and it very nearly cost them the entire game an irreparable damage to the franchise if the game actually did fail.
True... but was it a fail because it was different.. or did it fail because it was grossly unfinished? How many ideas from early on in the "Tanaka era" would have been better received had the game been finished with little to no lag, or bugs... and a plethora of content? Its like someone giving a presentation in a dirty suit, with wrinkled graphs.... smudged papers and an overall bad smell...
The ideas weren't necessarily bad but no one gave them any consideration because the packaging was so rough