Mark of Tanaka

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I'm not suggesting that at all. I'm suggesting that having Tanaka-san develop content like HNM, Dungeons, etc... would result in some great content for the game. I don't think it would be backtracking for SE either. He is already VP in charge of software development, so its not exactly a leap for him to directly involve himself in the project.

I understood. What i meant is that it would actually turn out to be an inconvenience to dev team and a bit of discredit to SE having him back to FFXIV after he already left, not because he's better or worse than Yoshida, but because it would hurt Yoshida's credibility.

Imagine a basketball team...you had a team and they lost the 2 first games...the fans started bashing the team and the owner replaced the coach and some players...a while after, even with the new team they aren't winning as it was expected. In this situation, bringing the former coach back, even if co-ed with the new one, would actually cause more issues than solutions because, even with an hierarchy, interest conflicts should arise.

Now that is not really fare, I loved what he did with FFXI (mostly) and after he left to do FFXIV, Abyssea was created and ruined it for me. At the same time, I did not like where he was going with FFXIV, it seemed like he was trying to do to many things at once, and in the long run half of it did not work out. Yoshi doing 90% of the game, and Tanaka thinking about events and dungeons, that would yield some interesting results.

I also think Tanaka did an awesome work in FFXI and the issue at FFXIV was actually just time. The former dev team had no time to actually finish the game...this was the real issue of original FFXIV...the game never was finished because Yoshida took over before the "retail patch" that was meant to complete FFXIV for release was live...

I don't like the idea of them co-ing tho...if Yoshida actually kept the original FFXIV going and just improved it, it would be perfectly plausible, but by the time he decided to replace the game with another one i don't think it would be good to neither SE, dev team nor the gaame itself they working together in it. Just look at Abyssea...it's what happens when a director actually does not fully understand the concepts or share the view of the former director.

That's why i'd rather have Tanaka and Yoshida following their own paths in different games, even if Tanaka one is spin-off (would have to so he can keep eorzean lore...would also be good to create a seal similar to Ivalice Alliance one, allowing lore to be fully shared between games), because i'm sure Tanaka's FFXIV would be great.

And, for those who don't like the "Tanaka way" of dealing with stuff, there would aways be the Yoshida's 2.0 for them. Having they both running different games would actually add options to players, being healthier to SE, FF brand and to the players.