Quote Originally Posted by Betelgeuzah View Post
This thread is like Americans blaming Obama for the pathetic state of their country. They don't know any better but somebody must be found to take the blame nonetheless.

At least it is a real person and not The Devil or something. Still as accurate though.
It's well known that Tanaka pretty much "Fell on his sword" for SE. Not only did disgruntled players need a target for their hate that was not Square Enix as a whole, so did investors and whatnot.

By laying the blame on a replaceable part of the process (A single man) It's far easier to assure consumers and stockholders that you have everything under control. While Tanaka may have had final say on many things we would scoff at today, he also probably still has many systems in place now and in the future players will enjoy without knowing it was at the end of the day his doing.

Yoshida as a shining new star gives everyone something to look forward to watching grow. We have seen Yoshida taking his first baby-steps in his new roll and even now we are starting to see him grow comfortable in his position and being far less timid in his statements. To think Tanaka has been locked out of the FFXIV development offices is silly, but many people will continue to think he was locked in a small cell for his misdeeds to all MMO-kind.

It will continue until SE needs someone to swoop in and either save a project or come out of left field with something "Edgy". That's probably SE's line of thinking on this issue.