Quote Originally Posted by DurtiMonkeyToe View Post
No. Do your homework. Development started on Diablo III in approx 2004. That's being nice and not including the 3 years it was bungled by Blizzard North when development started all the way back in 2001.

http://www.diablowiki.com/Diablo_III
There is a big difference in gathering concepts and ideas and actually going out and developing a game, if you believe Diablo III has been in actual development since 2001 then i should be allowed to say FFXIV was under development since 2003.