Quote Originally Posted by Dreamer View Post

While learning from other titles is fine, if you're just doing the same thing but with a different face it leaves you with no capacity to pull away from the other titles that you're competing with. I want to see FFXIV innovate instead of implement.
That's kind of what they where trying to do in the first place.
It didn't go over so well.

I don't think anyone's saying to make XIV XI-2. They just want it to take all the good stuff from XI because it made for a great experience.