Did Yoshida went a bit too far by cloning WoW?

[Shougun]

I'm a legacy player from all the way back in 1.0 alpha days. There are many things I enjoyed about 1.x... I was one of the few who actually liked the environments and didn't agree with the hyperbolic "copy pasta" accusations. But ultimately there was a lack of content and it was a pretty ridiculous grind on top of a penalty system that reduced your XP if you were grinding too much.

I liked the look of them on a grand scale but I think hyperbolic and accusations is a bit of an intense wording, have you not seen the screen shots that show 20+ exact copy locations?

What would be considered copy pasta if not locations exactly the same within 30 seconds of each other? Just curious xD.

[Daralii]

I liked the look of them on a grand scale but I think hyperbolic and accusations is a bit of an intense wording, have you not seen the screen shots that show 20+ exact copy locations?

What would be considered copy pasta if not locations exactly the same within 30 seconds of each other? Just curious xD.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OODPo9fzk0Q

There was so much copied and pasted terrain that it's mind boggling. 1.0 did some things well that ARR/HW didn't, but terrain is not one of them.

[Kaedan]

I liked the look of them on a grand scale but I think hyperbolic and accusations is a bit of an intense wording, have you not seen the screen shots that show 20+ exact copy locations?

What would be considered copy pasta if not locations exactly the same within 30 seconds of each other? Just curious xD.

You could cherry pick the same design/textures being used 10s if not 100s of times in different areas in any MMO... hell, any game in existence. Hence the accusations are hyperbolic. The one place I do agree there was too much repetition was Gridania. But all games use the same textures, just flipped and/or spaced out in such a way that it's not as noticeable... though console games are the worst by far. You can usually see literally the exact same building several times on the same block.

[Shougun]

You could cherry pick the same design/textures being used 10s if not 100s of times in different areas in any MMO... hell, any game in existence. Hence the accusations are hyperbolic. The one place I do agree there was too much repetition was Gridania. But all games use the same textures, just flipped and/or spaced out in such a way that it's not as noticeable... though console games are the worst by far. You can usually see literally the exact same building several times on the same block.

Textures and even models are expected to be reused you're comparing an accepted game standard to one that imo isn't normally expected. I'm used to seeing the same building, tree, or chain mail pattern a few times, I am not used to seeing the same exact cave tree grass and shore side view three times in a row (or when I do it is a bit jarring, human brains pick out patterns pretty well - you have to be clever with your copypasta). http://kotaku.com/5636464/this-part-...eems-familiar/ (google searched, some are not accurate though xd).

Not saying it made the game terrible, I like the higher entity count in 2.0 but I thought 1.0 was quite pretty too. Just saying that FFXIV 1.0 was abnormally copy paste. Maybe I'm just picky with my graphics (major sell point for me over any other MMO, not only point), I generally do notice the same tree model or think of what angle they placed it from the last one but it was a bit much in 1.0 (still liked it tho).