Quote Originally Posted by Elexia View Post
Sorry that everyone isn't happy with everything SE does, once you're done questioning the fact people may not be happy with everything, reread this part of his post:



While few MMOs are like this, you have to admit, all YoshiP is doing is making XIV how MMOs were back in 2004-2006 era, not really doing anything new. Tanaka had vision (XI was successful), Tanaka had ambitions, everything he tried to do was usually for the sake of trying to make something new for MMOs, the ideas were half implemented or else it probably would have went over a lot better.
You say that Tanaka had vision and ambitions, but then say that Yoshi-P has none because he is copying WoW. Ironic, considering that FFXI was a clone of EQ1 with a FF skin. Also, if you read the latest interview with Tanaka, you would find out that he just let the development team do what they wanted. He basically says that he did not come up with the ideas that made it into the game. So, if none of the ideas were his, how can he have had ambition for FFXIV?

On the subject of the PS3 UI, it looks great. This was one of my main concerns, as I have a friend who could not get a PC strong enough to play FFXIV. It will still be hard to communicate on PS3, but at least actions look easy and fast to access. Also, it can hold a good deal of actions (128), which was another concern as PC versions (of other MMOs) tend to have had more action slots available than their console counterpart.