Mark of Tanaka

[Kiote]

IMO, Tanaka is one of the Best in the Buisness. Always has been, always will be. People just do not understand that Directors and Producers do not get to decide when a game is released. There is a whole Flock of People above them and yet more people above those people. The game industry, especially at the size of SE, is a monster of corporate hierarchies.

What really drives me crazy is that Yoshida blindly gets credit for everything being done over this past year. I hate to burst people bubbles but, with the exception of system and class overhauls demanded by players, most of what has come out was already in the planning and development phase. I'm not saying he hasn't put out any good ideas or added anything, but don't go bad mouthing Tanaka while crediting Yoshida with things that were likely started before he took control.

[Lienn]

IMO, Tanaka is one of the Best in the Buisness. Always has been, always will be. People just do not understand that Directors and Producers do not get to decide when a game is released. There is a whole Flock of People above them and yet more people above those people. The game industry, especially at the size of SE, is a monster of corporate hierarchies.

What really drives me crazy is that Yoshida blindly gets credit for everything being done over this past year. I hate to burst people bubbles but, with the exception of system and class overhauls demanded by players, most of what has come out was already in the planning and development phase. I'm not saying he hasn't put out any good ideas or added anything, but don't go bad mouthing Tanaka while crediting Yoshida with things that were likely started before he took control.

This. He is one of the fathers of FF serie and one of the aces of SE. I wish that before people say such stuff as the ones said in this topic that they think he actually only did one big patch before stepping back from FFXIV...and the 2nd one would add stuff people are still begging to Yoshida, like DB, increase of MW features and number of items sold by retainers, drag-and-drop features, quests, hamlet defense among many others. That patch would be the real release of FFXIV.

So if you want to blame someone for Yoshida's fault, how about blaming him? It is expected from someone stacking the role of director and producer to take responsability for the flaws.

But hopefully we will be able to have the original FFXIV revived as spin-off next year so around the time 2.0 is released we will have 2 MMOs that follow not only different concepts but also the different vision of their directors.

[Mireille]

After acknowledging that the the +1/+2/+3/NQ versions of items were creating inventory issues, next steps were to implement 4 tiers of Materia, each having variable stats, non stacking, and requiring numerous variety of catalysts.

Multiple catalysts were intended to give gatherers of all levels a role in materia craft. Multiple tiers of Materia introduce randomness that allows lucky players to make something more valuable than that made by someone who didn't get lucky.

Increasing our inventory space and removing tiered HQ just made room for the new system. They compensate for this by revamping base crafting so the tiers in materials become less necessary for HQ. I never heard SE say it was wrong to have 4 item tiers at any point. Maybe I missed the memo?

The changes retain the degree of chance necessary in any game while addressing issues with crafting as a whole to make it more enjoyable.

[smokymcweed]

time sinks are retarded just make a game thats enjoyable hell i havnt even done any of the fights to much involved for the total lack of fun in the fight

[Jennestia]

time sinks are retarded just make a game thats enjoyable hell i havnt even done any of the fights to much involved for the total lack of fun in the fight

If you never did any of the fights how would you know if there's a 'lack of fun' in said fights?

[Jynx]

If you never did any of the fights how would you know if there's a 'lack of fun' in said fights?

I think their user name speaks for itself in this situation.

To be blunt as much as I don't mind haters litteraly hating on everything the game does, I find it rather hillarious that they never leave but remain "Worried" or "Skeptical about the games direction" nothing ever seems to be enough to push them over the edge, just continue to peturb them.

I also find it perplexing how many people insist on "Hard content" but complain when it's too hard or time consuming, it's only "Time consuming" when they can't bash there heads against a "Hard" fight until they win everytime.

Coming from a game where if you lost you lost your entry item, the Moogle fight requirements are pretty slack. (XI if anyone was wondering)

[Sophia]

i was expecting something cooler going by the title "Mark of Tanaka" = invincibiity for 1 min but you die once it wears off XD

[Zezlar]

time sinks are retarded just make a game thats enjoyable hell i havnt even done any of the fights to much involved for the total lack of fun in the fight

Oh you most certainly haven't done the fights then, because they are fun. The loot system is what isn't.

[grandm]

tanaka has had huge success in the MMO market, how fickle ppl are. they forget how successful FF11 was/is. tanaka might not have done the best job with FF14, but thats not to say hes a bad game developer. as for time sinks, a game is a time sink. i got some time, i don't know what to do. i know i'll play a game kill some time - time sink. i think the point you are trying to make is, its a boring time sink. well that is subjective. it is not new news that the game needs content. and by the time 2.0 comes out there should be lots of it. but if you don't like the style of content there is, then it won't matter how much they add. you will never be happy playing this game

[Burn]

LOL can't believe people are defending Tanaka, that guy is ass, he wouldn't last a day in a modern MMO company. Tanaka is great at console RPG's but he's utterly garbage in MMO development. Have you guys seen FFXI lately? he's been running it into the ground over the past 8+ months killing all momentum they built with Abyssea.