Did Yoshida went a bit too far by cloning WoW?

[Aeyis]

XIV 1.0 may have been graphically impressive, but artistically and in terms of level design? No

Which looks more fun to explore?

This


or this?

The first. It looks like a real world. The second looks like a painted panorama. (and not the most artistic either)


If you want to properly compare by the way, you should show the new coerthas in comparison to the old one. Not old coerthas compared to the hinterlands.

I've been playing wow for 7 years.

While, sure, a few gameplay/ui elements are the same, that's irrelevant because most of those things are staples in any MMO.

This is not a WoW clone.

Regretably the ui isnt remotely the same. Which is a shame as that is one of the few things WoW does right.
As for the rest, many aspects of the game are ''cloned'' from WoW. The rest is watered down from 1.0