Thread: What 1.0 and Tanaka did good

Wow that video is cool! Poor Tanaka...he got rushed and didn't get to put in anything he wanted to ; ; The cake and boat stuff look pretty sweet, nice find thanks for sharing =D

Originally Posted by Chardrizard

Ability to swap class on the fly, he did this one concept right. Although, lacking balances and flaws. Still pretty much what kept FFXIV apart and gives us our character attachment because we wouldnt be playing other character.

How do you swap on the fly?

Evrytime I gather on a low lvl DoL, and get attacked, I can't switch to a high lvl DoW/M fast enough, to kill my attackers.

I agree with the many who say the original (Tanaka) version of FFXIV was full of promise but poorly implemented. I think the armoury system was (is) fantastic, and I liked the idea (not the implementation) of physical level vs class rank. But what I miss most of all from Yoshida's changes is the old THM! In fact, I think both THM and CNJ really got messed up by the changes when the job system was introduced. Where THM used to be a light/dark mage with DOTs and debuffs - a highly strategic class - it is now a stripped down 1/2 elemental mage designed to be the natural precursor to BLM. None of the concept of Thaumaturgy has been retained, and it's distinctiveness is completely lost, as no other class had those light/dark, DOT, or debuff abilities. CNJ, similarly, is the other 1/2 elemental mage in a weak nod to its Tanaka-era roots, and also suffers from precursor-to-job syndrome.

I do like the job system, and I think that it is a good direction, going forward, but they didn't have to gut the THM so utterly into a completely unrecognizable pre-BLM nuke machine to do it, did they?

Well, it's a little late to complain now, I guess :P But that's what I miss the most from Tanaka's game.

Originally Posted by Azurymber

Tanaka's xiv was unique with things no other games had.
ARR seems like it will just be a wow clone

too bad :x I really hope they do something to set the game apart

unique =/= good

His systems were half-finished and poorly implemented. Had he more time perhaps the game would have launched better but we'll never know now. Every unique thing he did was executed poorly.

ARR is hardly a WoW clone. Using features that have become the standard in MMOs for good reason doesn't make it a clone. It brings it up to par with the genre as of the past few years. This can be used as a base, to expand on. Get the foundation set properly then try the unique things that may or may not be received well.

Originally Posted by Gramul

Wait no. I found the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...v=-cW56J8Gc5A#!

Also, hairstyles that never made it into the game.

In fact, a lot of things never made it into the game. Including multiple dyes and materials for the same armor.


Let's hope that the things promised this time actually make it into the game.

Multiple choices of material sets to produce the same armor would have a huge step potentially. Mixing dyes, more dyes in general, and using dyes on specific areas of the gear (blue on the cloth, slightly amber-browned metal) would have been pretty cool too.

If only they had gotten the server framework, UI, and battle sub-mechanics right from the start, we could probably have all that and much, much more now...

Originally Posted by Gramul

Wait no. I found the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...v=-cW56J8Gc5A#!

Also, hairstyles that never made it into the game.

In fact, a lot of things never made it into the game. Including multiple dyes and materials for the same armor.


Let's hope that the things promised this time actually make it into the game.

Thanks, that was cool~!

i miss the way we exp. lets see 15man grinds, if you went afk you got no exp, you couldn't pl, you couldn't leech, you couldn't be half assing it. you couldn't really duel box less you use 3rd party cheats and bots. i love large party stuff, i love forced party play, don't want to play with others go play offline games.

just this specific thing already shows the premise of what the game and it's end game would of been like. 15man events for small stuff even. i had huge huge hopes for large linkshell events. the words company actually made me image something epic not the garbage it was used for now.

he and SE failed us by launching early and now they are giving the game to a totally different crowd so they can just make there money off of quite frankly the people that are what i call "the problem with this world today" lol but anyway.

even if yes man yoshi did good stuff to the game, it's not like these things wouldn't or couldn't of been in a tanaka vision mmo if he was given the time and a good server framwork to work with. only thing that changed is they totally sold out.