Quote Originally Posted by Vahlnir View Post
It's a game built largely on fan service. It will always be influenced by other FFs in some way. Also, XIV received a little bit of inspiration from WoW at the start. Yoshi even stated as much in an article back then. Blizzard says "you're welcome".
Idd, I found the criticism of omega raids beign just fanservice to be a bit unwarranted considering they said in ARR time that essentially XIV was a fanservice mmo for FF fans