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I must say that xiv is not even close to a wow clone. Sure they share a couple minor similarities but its not a true clone.

FF14 in a nut shell

- Crafting took a huge hit and is basically useless now for end game, so why bother crafting, what a waste of time and content
- Gathering is useless now coz all it dose is fund pointless crafting
- Gil has close to no purpose apart from an insanely over priced housing cost implemented and repairs. It has no real use because there is no point in funding crafting or gathering, you won't get the return you want, you can earn all the equipment you will ever need threw questing and dungeons and all the gil you'll ever need is earned in dungeons also so why bother making gil.
- Previous point eliminates the use in farming, so anyone who enjoys farming too bad because you won't make good money doing it and there isn't much point in it now anyway.
- Leveling, the entire system for leveling is smashing monsters that spawn randomly all over the place in an outside group this means you don't interact with other players and it's basically just a spam fest of huge numbers smashing at the same mobs without any form of difficulty or strategy. It feels more grindy because it's so repetitive and boring, it's the same experience for every time you level a new job and the old party system in FFXIV 1.23 was more engaging and was actually faster exp.
- The game is mostly solo, all you do is play solo in this game for the most part, the entire story apart from more dungeons is solo'ed..... Even gearing up in end game is mostly solo play just with others around you.
- The zones have no sense of danger
- The zones are 1/3rd of the size they used to be
- The zones have no exploration because there all a set path layed out for you with no alternative directions to take and with no caves to enter or underground areas to explore.
- Everyone is pimp in this game has there relics for all there lvl 50 jobs and the best end game gear, everyone looks the same because the game is incredibly easy and everything is handed to you without providing much effort and basically no skill.

What about it is like a wow clone?
All these games befor FFXIV – ARR were basically wow clones
.Guild Wars 2
.Rift Online
.Tera
.SWTOR
What do these have in common?
- Questing to lvl
- Questing to do the main story
- Lots of the same type of quests, running from A to B constantly back and forth all the time, kill these mobs, run to A, kill these mobs, run to B, do this emote, pick up these items. That about sums it up for all the quests in the game.
- End game is only dungeons, raids and PvP and have nothing else to offer.
- They all were forced to take on the free to play model because they seriously lacked content
- Instances where monsters spawn in large groups, Guild wars 2 and Rift online and now Fates in FF14.

What is a WoW clone, a game thats like WoW right?

Not exactly, a WoW clone from what I can see consists of taking small parts from WoW and trying to make it new.

What is bad about this?
Everything!
-They always take the same parts from WoW that people see in every game now and it's seriously getting old.
-They try to revolve there entire game around these small parts that they have taken from WoW creating a very basic world that feels and plays like child play with very little to offer players.
"Theme park MMO"

What dose FF14 have that’s different?
Housing that no one can afford?
Limit breaks that for the most part only dragoon and monk get to use and only in a team?
Crafting and gathering that is no longer cool like it was in 1.23 or has a purpose?
Story which ends then the game is basically over?
Is this supposed to be a console game or an MMO because right now it doesn’t feel like an MMO to me. In FFXIV I have nothing left to do except a few dungeons and pvp, that’s about it, I’ve already finished the entire game and I’m over it and it only took me a month to do everything.