Quote Originally Posted by Dannythm View Post
Combat does not make a game. I have friends that played it until lvl 60 and left for the same reasons I did at lvl 30. The combat it's different yes, but the overall game isn't, and quoting TV tropes is a way to show that you cannot make up your own arguments. If you actually read my posts you'd see I'm not calling them wow clones, but everquest clones with gimmicks. Tera combat is a gimmick, it don't make the game a whole different experience from any of the other games makes using the same formula, once you get the knack of the combat or gimmick you just play the same game as before over and over again.

I'm in awe that in this forums people chose to defend other games before defending FFXIV and what it stood and stands for.
Well they're not clones at all though, that's the entire point. And yeah, quoting another website with your exact argument pre-made is ok with me. In fact it just shows how common your fallacious point of view is. If you look into anything with that mindset then everything is a clone. The term clone itself is incorrect as each of those games is significantly different.

Similarities does not a clone make.

And I'm not defending XIV because it doesn't deserve to be defended. 1.0 was terrible, buggy and several steps back from the accepted quality of MMO's today.

2.0's questing system is pretty much the only thing that's similar to wow (we haven't even seen that much, so I don't know why people are jumping to conclusions.)