Quote Originally Posted by Hachiko View Post
Also this. People complaining about this becoming a "wow clone" are just silly. If making the ui more moddable, and making connecting with other players easier makes the game a "wow clone" then I guess every MMO to come out in the future will be a "wow clone."

Take a good hard look at the game. There is almost no parallels to WoW as it is right now. Implementing things like player finders or auction houses doesn't make it a WoW or FFXI clone. If it did, then the reliance on shouting in ul'dah to find groups would make this an EQ clone, and we all know people were tired of that game a decade ago.

This game is its own. Just as a reference, go play the free trial of wow, then come back to FFXIV. If you honestly think that XIV couldn't use some of the things existing in WoW, such as the responsive combat, useful and clean ui, and fluid economy, then I don't know what to say. At the end of the day, even if XIV was as smooth as wow gameplay wise, it would never be a WoW clone. It is simply too different from the ground up.
I say that this game is turning into a WoW clone because I have played WoW, for several years in fact (while playing FFXI as well). I mentioned before that in my opinion FFXI was the better game. Enough about me.

The reason people are saying this game is becoming a WoW clone is because of the parallels that SE didn't bother to even convert to their own for FFXIV. Much like WoW and their "giant bird mounts" /coughclearlynotinfluencedbyffatallcough
I mean it's downright shameless how much SE is taking from WoW.

Allow me to list examples. I'll be quoting Yoshida-san.

"Furthermore, we are offering a play experience unlike any other MMORPG by providing content that is only available to enjoy now. "
Hey kids, remember the temporary quests/content WoW had pre-Cataclysm where, for example, Sylvanas got Valkyries and players were able to reclaim Gnomeregan? You can't experience those things anymore in the game. Furthermore, this is not the first time WoW has done that. Also, WoW isn't the only game to do that unfortunately for FFXIV, WoW is the MMO leader right now so yeah, it will be seen as taking from WoW.

Moving on-

"Content Finder" = Dungeon Finder. In WoW it is also cross server. However, WoW's servers are not only language specific but type specific (PVP, PVE, and RP). The computer then forms groups based on each pool in addition to langauge specific servers.

"Language Servers (language servers and global servers)"- Granted WoW doesn't have both the way Yoshida-san wishes to make it here. However, having global servers is fairly pointless because people will simply go with language specific.

"PvP/Large Scale PvP"- ok PVP... a major component of WoW. I mean one doesn't think of WoW without thinking of PVP (however good/bad it may be. I don't care)
In WoW you have Arena which will be equivalent to the FFXIV Colosseum and then the "Large Scale PvP" sounds a lot like Battle Grounds.

Also since I've heard you can level via PVP- hey, you can also level WoW via PVP.

But more importantly than taking these things from WoW is the fact that SE basically didn't take anything that made FFXI unique (or FF in general) and make it amazing nor did they use the FF lore to make FFXIV more like an FF game.

If they had maintained what FF is known for- characters, storyline, world (just to name a few) it wouldn't be such a big problem. However, I've heard nothing and most importantly- have seen nothing that is going to prove otherwise.

Plus it also sucks that we have to pay for this crap as it is now. If he won't be giving us a discount then he should at the very least not charge us until after 1.22 so we can see these oh-so-amazing changes, cause darling, I don't trust SE. They've been biffing rather spectacularly for the past several years with each new game release.