SE just copy FFXI in FFXIV

[Suirieko]

Considering that I hated what little I played of FFXI, I really don't want FFXIV to take too much from it.

You really don't even know what made FFXI actually good and successful as opposed to how poorly FFXIV started. Based on what you said, I can probably guess that you more than likely have never leveled a job past 20 to maybe 25, Never even unlock subjobs. You've barely even begun to scratch the very tip of the iceberg of what made FFXI actually enjoyable and fun. How am I doing so far?

Personally, I rather have FFXIV feel like FFXIV and not like "FFXI-2" as people have put it, however, this isn't an excuse to not take some features of what made FFXI actually good and enjoyable. Of course there are some features in FFXI that I hope to never see in FFXIV.

Bottomline is: Outside of the similarities between the races between the two games, SquareEnix made FFXIV as different as possible from FFXI, that many of the features in FFXIV made this blatantly obvious that it's insane. You can have a lot of the features FFXI, and it will still be a different game.

One of the biggest thing that will truly set FFXIV apart from FFXI, even with all the features is the fact that FFXIV will never have the severe technology limitations that FFXI suffered.