Quote Originally Posted by Zantetsuken View Post
It was the races that did it.
It was those dastardly Hyur all along!

From what I remember reading, S.E wanted XIV to have some familiarity for returning players from XI so they made the races look similar, hence we got Hume > Hyur, Mithra > Miqo'te, Taru > Lalafell and so on. In some ways it was a good idea 'cos then players would be like "yay, i look like I did in XI, but more awesome!", but then yes as you said, it also caused XI players to throw in comparisons instead of trying to view it as a new game.

It's kind of ironic, because FF games, at least untill X-2, were reknown for NEVER having sequals. Only if they're officially marked as a sequal could they be considered as an actual sequal, and XIV was never marked a sequal, but people still tried to look at it as if it were one. If this were released as Final Fantasy XI-2, then it'd be understandable, but because it's called Final Fantasy XIV, no comparison should ever be made or expected.