FFXIV-- the fear of a WoW Clone is real...

[Darkhaund]

hahahah

Well, untill we can play in beta we will know how far or close this gme is from WoW right?

And my "theory" is based on what I have seen so far. And IN MY OPINION some of the changes are similar to WoW

[Abriael]

hahahah

Well, untill we can play in bets we will know how far or close this gme is from WoW right?

Not sure about you, but I'm not interested in gambling. Or on gmes, whatever they may be, but please do stop making my eyes bleed.

The game has already several visible and radical elements that differentiate it from wow (like the class system for instance). Ergo, your insinuations have no value or credibility.

PS: What the hell is a darkHAUND?

[BruceyBruceyBangBang]

Nope... if you see all the other MMOs that tried to copy WoW formula have failed.
And it will be pretty shameful if SE copied blizzard and also failed dont you think?

You keep saying this, but I don't think you know what you're talking about. You mean they are following a modern MMO formula?

Cause that's what I'm seeing.

[Totorixiii]

SE is definitely following the modern MMO in order to improve FFXIV ARR including listening to the fans/player base.

I like what I am seeing so far, and I trust Yoshi-P will deliver far into the future of FFXIV ARR. 2-4 years from now, ARR will have alot of contents and variety of things to do it's got a bright future ahead of them.

[Royze]

Not sure about you, but I'm not interested in gambling. Or on gmes, whatever they may be, but please do stop making my eyes bleed.

The game has already several visible and radical elements that differentiate it from wow (like the class system for instance). Ergo, your insinuations have no value or credibility.

PS: What the hell is a darkHAUND?

the job system came as a corrective measure to save FFXIV from the abyssal, souless and characterless state it once was.
The introduction of stances for warrior is very wow'sh for example. The actual stances themselves are clones of WAR stances from WoW.

That's just 1 example, there are MANY more.

[Arcell]

the job system came as a corrective measure to save FFXIV from the abyssal, souless and characterless state it once was.
The introduction of stances for warrior is very wow'sh for example. The actual stances themselves are clones of WAR stances from WoW.

That's just 1 example, there are MANY more.

And yet a lot of those things weren't new to WoW either.

[Abriael]

the job system came as a corrective measure to save FFXIV from the abyssal, souless and characterless state it once was.
The introduction of stances for warrior is very wow'sh for example. The actual stances themselves are clones of WAR stances from WoW.

That's just 1 example, there are MANY more.

Too bad that you forgot that in wow you can't play multiple classes on the same character, which is the essence of the armory system in Final Fantasy XIV, and a very radical difference between the two games.

Oh, and WoW didn't invent stances. You don't have a point.

[Kallera]

the job system came as a corrective measure to save FFXIV from the abyssal, souless and characterless state it once was.
The introduction of stances for warrior is very wow'sh for example. The actual stances themselves are clones of WAR stances from WoW.

That's just 1 example, there are MANY more.

Very wow'sh?? You do realize that there were other mmorpgs before WoW that used stances as well, right? And on other DD classes too?

Care to Elaborate on this?

[Royze]

Too bad that you forgot that in wow you can't play multiple classes on the same character, which is the essence of the armory system in Final Fantasy XIV, and a very radical difference between the two games.

Oh, and WoW didn't invent stances. You don't have a point.

Pointing at the difference of two things doesn't negate the similarities. Its not an absolute situation and I didn't say it was. On the contrary, the whole thread is about SE taking ques from Blizzard and moving towards their game mechanics, which they have actually stated in the past...

I never said stances came into existence with the introduction of WoW. However, SE most certainly did mimic the WAR that Wow Built and completely trashed their own take on what WAR should be in an MMO(FFXI).

FFXIV's jobs are closer to their WoW counterparts than they are to their FF-FFXI origins.

[Abriael]

Pointing at the difference of two things doesn't negate the similarities..

A "Clone" doesn't have "similarities". A "clone" is identical.

SE is taking "cues" (I think this is the word you're looking for) from the MMORPG genre, to which their game belongs. not from WoW in particular.

Again, you don't have a point, just like this thread.