Tanaka or Yoshi?

[ManekiKanji]

I think at this point i prefure Yoshi altho i cant say i ever had any personal perference and Favorites for many or any producers or directors, yoshi does seem to be trying to base the future desicions on players inputs on all the polls hes been throwing out with enough of a choice for clear direction ,i can say its kept me checking back all the time for new posts wanting to discussing the future growth hoping for a kickass feature to get stuck in the game via what we as a whole decided towards.

If they delayed this mabey by a year or close i think tanaka would be there still without the slight stigma some people may have towards him now tho, being in pressure from higher ups to push it out fast was ultimatly why he got pushed out overwise im sure he'd be on the projext for a longtime to come with a great game on his roster.

[Kirith]

For now Yoshida's biggest achievement has been due to his PR abilities. The increased communication is something everyone of us can appreciate. However i can't help feeling it's mostly a way to keep us busy and interested by discussing on these forums and doesn't serve the purpose of asking our opinion about how to improve the game.
No one asked for aggro icons, after all, yet they were implemented over and before many things that were being asked and are still being asked on these forums.

We also have to admit that on paper FFXIV was quite the innovative mmorpg, and the graphics are excellent. It all comes down to the lack of content, bugs, and badly implemented features (due to lack of testing). These are huge mistakes, but anyone can see how they are all due to an early release and not a misguided direction. The true causes of this are only known to SE and it seems that they judged Tanaka responsible.

At the same time, no one seems to realize Yoshida isn't some directing genius called to the rescue, but as he said himself, a fairly unknown PR stuntman who has always worked behind the scenes. His job is to keep us happy. The fundamental changes in the dev team lie in the battle system developer, concept artist and lead programmer, plus other related figures as stated here (http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...d5253e4362e17f).

In conclusion, what SE did was simply to change development direction, adding some of their most experienced figures to the team. To discuss which director is better by associating the whole state of the game to one of them or the other is pointless, in my opinion. There are multiple factors that contribute to making this game what it is.

On my side, having to chose a director i prefer, i will always chose the one who actually directed and produced more games that i love. In this case, it is Tanaka.

[Galamantyl]

For all you guys know, this could still be Tanaka's roadmap. Yoshida might just be tweaking it here and there, and changing the priorities around.

Or better yet, perhaps Tanaka is working "behind the scenes" and Yoshida is here just to make people smile. ;D

OR... OOOOOR.... Perhaps Yoshida and Tanaka are girlfriend and boyfriend. ;D (okay, that might be going too far in the conspiracy)

[Ilean]

If you read you would have new the reason FFXIV fail was because the CEO hurry up the team. So yes Tanaka fail only because he did not have enough time.

And who decides how much time is enough time?

Monkeys and typewriters.

[SirEdeonX]

This one:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cNbny7o5ph...nce-yoshi2.jpg

[Peregrine]

For all you guys know, this could still be Tanaka's roadmap. Yoshida might just be tweaking it here and there, and changing the priorities around.

Or better yet, perhaps Tanaka is working "behind the scenes" and Yoshida is here just to make people smile. ;D

OR... OOOOOR.... Perhaps Yoshida and Tanaka are girlfriend and boyfriend. ;D (okay, that might be going too far in the conspiracy)

If you were Tanaka, what are the odds that you want anything more to do with this? Thrown under the bus by your bosses. Pitchforked by the player base who doesn't understand the project's goals and doesn't really care to. I'd wash my hands and walk away with a few choice curse words then either go to Mistwalker or retire.

To me, you don't get Tanaka if you can't sit your ass down and shut up for a minute. And we clearly can't do that as "empowered gamers."

Tanaka doesn't make your game. He makes his game. He's done with this, man. Empowering gamers to call the shots as a generic collective is incompatible with Tanaka's style.

Tanaka would not have stood for a single update since he stepped down. Agro icons? MP regen? He would backhand whoever pitched those in front of everyone and make them sit on the floor in the development meetings.

Tanaka's the guy who added fatigue to everything to give most players a shot at keeping up with the teens and addicts, knew there would be utter riotting, and didn't care. He's not calling the shots any more. You can already tell he's gone.

[ApplePie]

I'm in love with Yoshi-P. I pick Yoshi! Luck!

[Kirith]

If you were Tanaka, what are the odds that you want anything more to do with this? Thrown under the bus by your bosses. Pitchforked by the player base who doesn't understand the project's goals and doesn't really care to. I'd wash my hands and walk away with a few choice curse words then either go to Mistwalker or retire.

To me, you don't get Tanaka if you can't sit your ass down and shut up for a minute. And we clearly can't do that as "empowered gamers."

Tanaka doesn't make your game. He makes his game. He's done with this, man. Empowering gamers to call the shots as a generic collective is incompatible with Tanaka's style.

Tanaka would not have stood for a single update since he stepped down. Agro icons? MP regen? He would backhand whoever pitched those in front of everyone and make them sit on the floor in the development meetings.

Tanaka's the guy who added fatigue to everything to give most players a shot at keeping up with the teens and addicts, knew there would be utter riotting, and didn't care. He's not calling the shots any more. You can already tell he's gone.

Damn. There is more truth in this than what i can possibly accept. Then again, releasing the game in that condition that soon was a lapse in judgement and could only have this consequence. His doing as he pleased either went too far, or was met with the incompetence of his colleagues.

You can't blame us, the mass of ignorant players, for their failures. If they said "we release in three years" instead of two we would have waited. If they said "we release in two years but will do six months of beta test", we would have probably been overjoyed. This is someone's failure and it surely isn't ours.

[zaviermhigo]

Yoshi. Tanaka tried to hard to make it completely different from xi, when a lot of people wanted common elements from xi upgraded in a new setting, like most mmos that make sequential titles. Yoshi knows what those of us from XI want, we don't want XI recreated, but we would like some of XI's features we felt were crucial to our mmo experience, and he's giving us that. Plus I like that post about auto-attack, its not Yoshi, but it is the new devs he was like "deal with it, we're adding it, you complained about the other stuff so deal with this", i like that, don't listen to EVERYTHING we say lol.

[Naylia]

I still want all of these:

The addition of new guildleves

Adjustments to existing guildleves

The addition of new main scenario quests

The addition of new class quests

The addition of new tutorial quests

Adjustments to existing tutorials

The further differentiation of actions to enhance class identities

The addition of hamlet defense battles

The addition of item exchange quests

The addition of graphic displays to better clarify the effective ranges of actions

The addition of a gameplay feature that determines the quality of materials obtained from battle and gathering

A fix assuring that retainers do not leave their bazaar locations after server maintenance

The addition of a delivery service

The addition of "companies" (player-run guilds)

The addition of company-owned ships

The addition of company-owned buildings

Improvements to existing linkshell features

The addition of player titles

I don't care who brings them to the party...as long as they show up.