Did Yoshida went a bit too far by cloning WoW?

[Raiker]

And WoW carried over elements of EverQuest and EverQuest carried over elements of Ultima Online and Ultima Online (which is where the term MMORPG was coined) got its roots from stuff like The Realm Online and Neverwinter Nights (the AOL version). I'm not sure I get your point.

Everything takes from somewhere else and innovates upon it. FFXIV 1.0 was "Crafter's Fantasy" and although the story was good for 1.0, it was not at first. The graphics needed to be altered cause ate system specs alive in some cases.

You typed "me" ten times by the way; it's not what you want, but what the couple of million subscribers pay for want.