XI-2 was released this past September, or didn't you notice?

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Thank you SO much for using your extensive background knowledge of FF titles to help ppl recognize how foolish they look when they try to disregard the similarities between XIV and XI. Do you realize you just contradicted yourself completely? Look at how many DIFFERENT FF titles you had to draw from to find similarities between previous FF titles and FFXIV. That is my ENTIRE point. Please, EVERYONE, stop ASSUMING that I think this is, LITERALLY, XI-2. That was a sarcastic remark made in an attempt to rally the ANTI-FFXI ppl into making logical arguments against why SE *shouldn't* draw from FFXI as a base for the new updates. All I ever see from any of you is stuff like this: "This isn't XI-2, it's XIV; why do you keep bringing XI up?" "Go play XI. K, thnx bai." "F$%# XI." Over and over and over again, nothing productive ever comes from "your" side (anti-FFXI ppl). So, why don't you ppl quit being so close-minded, and contribute.

Then change you topic title and your opening post. You may have said that you don't want a FFXI-clone, but your subsequent actions lead people to think otherwise. People change, and we can't assume that you'll keep your opinion. And your attitude. Your attitude seems to be all FFXI-2 YAYF*RKYEALLPEOPLEWHOHATEFFXI and people will obviously misunderstand. You obviously didn't bother reading through the rest of my post. I've tired to be constructive; I've drawn parallels all over the goddamn farking universe of Final Fantasy and gaming to this game. Why don't you READ more before just assuming and assuming, as you seem to be complaining about?

Where did I once say that I am an anti-FFXI? I even MENTIONED to draw aspects from your freaking beloved FFXI! No, instead you nit-pick out what you termed me to be from your damned stereotype, and insulted me without looking through the rest of the post. I've made it so that FFXIV doesn't NEED to remain ANYTHING but FFXIV, and that's that, but instead, you choose to nitpick on my post about using other FF's as reference in which I, satirically, give 'logical' reasons as to why FFXIV should be renamed. And then you yell at me for it. Why? Why on goddamn world do you not read more than you want? And you wonder why people bear this attitude towards you and your topics?

Get off your high horse and learn to look beneath the words. You said that you provided a sarcastic view, and that's fine, but somehow, I make a satirical paragraph, and I get yelled at? Please. I am seriously pissed at how you just dismissed my remarks and numerous others that have contributed perfectly fine to your topic. Learn respect, and then others will respect you.

Oh, and I see NOWHERE where I contradicted myself. I have kept to my view that FFXIV should draw more from the other MMO SE have done that was successful, which is FFXI, but I also want it to draw more aspects from OTHER games, be it FF or outside sources. But I also want it to be unique in its own damn way. If what I said happens to contradict me, please, provide me a thesis into how I did so, because I cannot see WHERE I have decided otherwise.