Quote Originally Posted by Tonkra View Post
about the mount topic i could post also other mount pictures in comparison to each other (to go away from that "griffin topic"): [...]

Its your decision what you think about it... and yea. they came up with the idea of having more than chocobo mounts for a reason.
And yea.. other game mechanics are based on a specific game.
Why are you do desperate to call FFXIV a WoW clone? You keep using piss-poor examples that only show vague similarities. Of course FFXIV has a few similar elements to WoW. Most modern MMOs share a few similarities with it. Just like WoW shares things with the games that predate it. But having a handful of things being similar doesn't make something a clone. There are far more things different between the two than there are similar.

as yoshida told his dev team to play lots of WoW.. and he even stated that.
That doesn't make it a WoW clone. That's more about showing the team how a well-made game looks and plays, not necessarily that he intended for them to copy everything and give if a coat of Final Fantasy paint. That's common practice in the field of things like developing games and making movies. You have your people look at what works and (hopefully) use those ideas to go in your own direction.