Quote Originally Posted by Duelle View Post
If you're going to expect to be different solely for the sake not following a "basic setup", you're setting yourself up for disappointment. Speaking for myself, I expected something different from FFXI, and that's exactly what we got.
And by different from XI, you mean similar to WoW?
Like nearly other MMO for the past decade? The very same stagnation that poisons so many other genres in so many other industries? The very concept that defines the word "generic"? This "basic setup" is little more than companies charging head first after the biggest pot of gold.
Don't get me wrong. WoW has made a lot of breakthroughs, but they don't have to be the standard structure of the whole genre.

And no. The little novelties and changes you see in every WoW inspired game does not change the core structure.