All the more reason to sit out until someone down the line comes out with a postmortem on the game's development.
I for one am not convinced that Nomura stepped down as director on entirely amiable terms. We lack the concrete evidence to support this, but I think we can infer from this whole, long episode that it probably has been a royal, unmitigated clusterfuck. Was the sudden radio silence after last year's E3 until now down squarely to a PR department wary of information schedules, or was the development simply still too chaotic along with troubled simultaneous engine development that any earlier plans had to be quickly amended or dropped? We can only guess, but I'm putting money on the idea that the Final Fantasy XV we are seeing today is a far cry from the vision that Nomura originally put forward for Final Fantasy Versus XIII.
I wish all the best for the man. I'm sure the whole episode has been an enormous strain on him, and providing he hasn't now come to blows with his bosses, or is upset with the vision of the game as it currently stands, he deserves that emotional congratulatory moment when FFXV finally releases, like when YoshiP teared up when his baby (with all the pressure and weight behind it) finally went online. The development culture and organisation at Square-Enix cannot be a very enviable thing to manoeuvre and manage, especially when you're one or a few guys, but I hope this doesn't bode a future departure of Nomura from the company.
All the best for Tabata. I've no idea if these are final days ahead for him, or whether it's still going to enter into more long, choppy waters.
