Quote Originally Posted by Vahlnir View Post
WoW was the father of the modern MMO, aka XIV 2.0 as we know it. It has more in common than you'd think, seeing as XIV 2.0 was a "tribute" to WoW. Just putting that out there. If it wasn't for WoW, XIV, as it is now, probably wouldn't exist.
Technically correct but so wrong on many levels. XIV 2.0 isn't a "tribute" to WoW, nor did it inspire XIV as we know it. When 1.0 failed, Yoshi P gave the developers subscriptions to WoW and other successful tab target MMOs to research what makes them successful, and from that research we got the current iteration of XIV, with tab target combat, and WoWesque dungeons and raids, but I would say XI has been as much of an influence, with specific features such as the job system, hunts, and deep dungeon being heavily inspired by its spiritual predecessor.

At the end of the day, XIV is its own game and it has done many things differently, and even some things better than WoW. You are right in saying that without WoW the current iteration of XIV wouldn't exist, but the same could be said of many MMOs (because that's how market research works), and at this point, XIV is so far along that it has developed its own reputation and its own successes that WoW can learn from.