Quote Originally Posted by Collin_Sky View Post
His greatest success was copying WoW and making 2.0 a WoW clone with an FF skin. Since then, he has done absolutely nothing innovative, at all. Every patch since 2.1 has been the same two, alternating formulae. His great chance was FF16, to do something completely new with no technical debt or prior mistakes to work around, and it followed the FF14 formula to a frightening degree.
It's even worse than what you've said because not only did he personally not do anything innovative, when his battle designers tried to do something new in ARR and HW instead of encouraging them he slowly put a stop to it.