>>42391093Tabata quit. He was tired of getting stepped on. Even with Nomura fucking the pooch, any time criticism was directed at him for why XV was a travesty with enough evidence to back up that Tabata suffered for his incompetence (mind you Tabata was appointed as co-director for a while before Square swiftly removed Nomura and left Tabata alone on it, funny how they didn't do it with all the KH games between 2 and 3), Square would have statements about "Nomura is a great visionary" and have literal whos praise Nomura as "Nomura could solve problems we were stuck on for days in development in mere seconds", the latter clearly not being the case for the trainwreck development of versus XIII since he clearly couldn't ask himself to get it going.
