Quote Originally Posted by Kallera View Post
You're really stretching the term similar if you saying 7 and 8's systems were at all similar, or even 10 and 10-2...and which version of 12 are you referring to?
It's truly not that hard to see that 10/10-2/12/13 were basically using the same sphere grid concept system, as much as people love to try to disprove things, it's truly not that hard to see. It's like saying FFI, III, IV and V didn't utilize crystals as centralized story mechanic.

As for the VII and VIII thing, both games had something that let you pretty much customize your stats and abilities, the problem with VIII was it was detrimental to level whereas VII it was more worthwhile to level because materia grew in strength (kind of like GFs grew in order to learn more abilities for junctioning.)

It's not that much of a stretch, since before FFXIV, people were always drawing comparisons and going on how the materia system (even though some of the stats were broken, and not in the "overpowered" way)/junction should return for the next MMO, now that XIV is out, people seem to be overly critical about any kind comparisons being drawn even to unrelated offline titles.