FF game genre as a whole has always confused me. I mean what is it about this game that keeps ppl coming back for XIV games?! lol

Its basically the same base story. World in Peril, must save world, band of characters get together to save world. Tragedy strikes, love delvelops. Evil vanquished!

It's the same spells, mobs, and currency as well.

Yet.... Crafty devs at Square-Enix can craft a compelling story, group of characters, amazing graphics with each successive iteration. They reinvent the gameplay to make each game different, the world is different even though it needs saving.

Amazingly everytime, they change just enough to make it enough different to buy again. Story and graphics are my main draw.

And the story cutscenes and graphics is what drew me to FFXIV. It's just to bad that there really isn't that many they are so well done with what is here.

So yeah, nearly every FF game is the same game just reinvented. So in a sense this is XI just reinvented to make a new MMO!