User blog comment:Cosmicsilver/Dark Souls 2(What I think so far)/@comment-6003396-20130222234555

From what I have read, although he won't be on the development team, Miyazaki will still have some involvement with the game. You are certainly justified with being scared. Generally I dislike it when a game series changes hands (diablo) but sometimes it can be a good thing. Time will tell.

It is almost always a bad thing when a publisher gets too involved with development.

The part about accessibility concerns me as well (dear god, I hope they don't add an easy mode). One of the things I loved about Dark Souls was the fact it was non-linear.