If I could interview Yoshida.

[Zantetsuken]

Tanaka ditched nearly everything from FFXI but the races. As the races were essentially HD FFXI and the entry point to the game, the players expected a HD FFXI. Most never accepted the game on its own terms.

Though not obvious, those races, and the expectations they carried, played a big part in why players ditched Tanaka's vision.

Tanaka should have completely started from scratch -or- made a spiritual successor to FFXI.

Now we have both and neither - for better or worse.