Yoshi suggests playing WOW for a year

[indira]

i like EQ over WoW anyday. wow was is one big queue.

[Abriael]

Repeat whith me: "That's not what he said. That's not what he said. That's not what he said..."

Go on for 10,000 times.

[Abriael]

Sorry, never going to Kotaku.

Grey man speaks words of wisdom.

[Yrusama]

Most successful? Appears to be truth... Greatest? Debatable.

XIV is certainly more accessible, unlike XI. For all its improvements, XI still takes a lot of effort to start up, and they give no guides within the game.

I wonder if the JP are complaining about this sort of thing.

[Daku_Naito]

Yes we know this will essentially be a WoW "clone" in the same sense that FFXI was an EQ "clone", however unlike XI, XIV will be directly taking the base systems that WoW uses that everyone else decides to mimic.

Yeah, MMOs taking great things from one another is unforgivable. You should give this up, MMOs will always try to use something else and improve upon it as well as create something new, its not like there are a millions of different ways to do something with regards to MMOs. Yes the fighting is faster, yes we have bags now, but clone? No, it isn't going to be a clone.

[Deakka]

It's good advice that Yoshi-P gives. It's stuff that any corporation would do, examine the competition not only to see what they're doing right and wrong, but what you're doing right and wrong. The 1.0 dev team ran in with blinders, attempting to make a game LIKE FFXI, but UNLIKE FFXI, while eschewing a decades worth of advances in the genre. Things like client based custom UI's, alt tabbing and not crashing full screen, the ability to solo to the level cap, and more.

Get out of your comfort zone, try out other things. I know there's a solid population on this forum that is under the mindset of "GIVE US HD FFXI OR GIVE US DEATH!". No, just no. FFXI only seems amazing to you because you played it for so long with so many good friends. I guarantee you that your linkshell chat was dominated by hatred of spawn windows, Dynamis lock out capability (in case you're sitting outside when someone ninja's your time slot), and of general player unfriendliness. Just stop it. The important thing is that FFXIV keeps the soul of Final Fantasy, not just Final Fantasy XI.

[Shadow_Sama]

You are asked for examples and all you come up with was already in 1.0? >_> your opinion goes out the window ...
cross server will only make it easier to get a party and get stuff done you don't like this idea because you are prolly one of those that demand people to pass their loot to someone else...

Wut ? /mindblown

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=VK4ikaqBYnI

[Ralos]

I think it would be better to have them all play multiple MMOs to bring different Points of view to the table.

[casker]

There are a lot of things I like about WoW, and a lot that I don't, but one of the reasons FFXIV was so crap at launch was because the devs were so damn oblivious to how MMOs have changed, what competing MMOs offer, and what MMO gamers expect. I can forgive Yoshida for telling his clueless ass dev team to study up. I don't think ARR will be a WoW clone but it'd still be better than what we had.

[Felis]

I think it would be better to have them all play multiple MMOs to bring different Points of view to the table.

They have. WoW was only 1 example.