Quote Originally Posted by Yucie View Post
People are going to bash Tanaka over and over, no matter how much anyone defends him. It was him and his team that were responsible for FFXIV back in 2010, and from what little activity there was in patching the game, delivering content and news, and things of the like, we can now see that Tanaka had no ambitions for the game and it's future -- it was pushed out the door at a very bad time in the pipeline, and the game was nothing more than a skeleton. The one responsible for this, if not solely, was Tanaka for allowing this to happen.
Maybe it works differently where you're from but in Japan, most companies I've worked with it's more up to the ones running a company when something needs to be out, not so much the ones leading a project -- We still have our bosses too. Tanaka said time and time again XIV was not ready up until it was given it's September release date.

When we see Yoshida, we see progress. We see vision
As I said, a lot of updates Yoshida pushed out was from Tanaka's team; The only vision of Yoshida's we seen for sure based on timing was the Job system and up to the conclusion of the 7th Umbral era storyline, and even that is likely the team's idea more so than Yoshi's as the team for the most part is the same, only the managerial portion was reformed.

The FFXIV team needs a strong leader who can guide the game and fulfill his vision of an awesome MMO. I believe that person is Yoshida, and he's done nothing short of miracle work since they started 2 years ago.
So once again, most of the updates "he has done miracles with" were the previous teams when he took over, ARR is pretty much the thing he has done and we're still waiting for actual information, let alone to get it in our hands to see if he truly did perform a miracle or not.

So please, don't say that him wanting everything to perfection is a bad thing - it's what the game needs. The fans, and peers of FFXIV won't settle for anything less than perfection at this point.
This is why I feel XIV has a very high chance of failing, people will expect too much and if expectations aren't met -- well, we've seen what happens to MMOs. I think this is why some people will easily jump on someone for having a different point of view from completely being happy with everything.