Yoshi suggests playing WOW for a year

[Ramsey]

He's suggesting developers working on an MMORPG, actually play the largest, best-selling game in the genre. It's not really a far-fetched idea. There's a ton of developers out there who don't actually play games in the market/genre they are creating for. This leads to bad design, and repetition of mistakes that others have already made and solved.

I'd be scared if a majority of the developers (at least the design team) had not played World of Warcraft. What the hell are you doing working on an MMORPG if you haven't at least academically played the genre's most iconic title?

Oh right, they didn't and look what happened. All art and design draws inspiration from other art and design. There are plenty of good things about World of Warcraft, and there are also plenty that may not resonate with the Final Fantasy audience. There's also plenty of room for original ideas.

[IloveYouPumpkin]

I've watched hours of alpha and It doesn't just give a feeling of a game inspired by WoW but it seems very heavily similar to it in many ways. You'll have to hope (I hope) that it's good enough in its own way and not just a copy in too many ways. And maybe it does some of the same things better? We'll see. Housing and the Gold Saucer + trading card game is already something I'm so excited about. If the game manages to do important things differently that may be enough for me to permanently play it. I'm tired of WoW, I don't want the same thing. I played it for 5 years and I'm just tired of it. I can't imagine too many people quitting wow and wanting an experience exactly similar to it, because those people are bored of that. We'll see what happens.

I still remain excited for now and no matter what I'll give 2.0 a good chance.

[YeaniNah]

Prepare to be dissapointed then whenever you get in alpha/beta. AAR is at its core an HD WoW clone with a Final Fantasy skin painted over it. If you don't like WoW's quest chain leveling, faster paced combat, jumping, dungeon finder you probably won't like ARR.

It's not a secret Yoshi and his team did get some inspiration from WoW.

Why people don't understand that its not the play style ..but the graphic of WOW that totaly sucks big time

a 5 years old could make better drawing then WOW developpers

[YeaniNah]

Me i choose game based on graphic(#1) , if there is story line , skill upgrade still , and equipe style (i don't like glowing armor or weapon take off the view of nice details on the armor or weapon and at the end you end up looking like a christmass tree.

[IloveYouPumpkin]

One thing I hope never happens is having way too many mounts. I like that we'll get more than just chocobos this time but when you have a ton of mounts it just not cool anymore when a new comes come out. It becomes something so common that you don't care. New mounts should be like legendary items in WoW. New one once a year or something like that. They should be really hard to get, like beating a super hard raid boss that a very small number of people can do. And if the content is nerfed it shouldn't be obtainable anymore. Something like that.

[MStowastiqVahlshdeh]

There is no WOW gaming experience, no immersion in their content, nor do they have a battle system awesome enough to alleviate the devastating effect that WOW's graphics have on my ability to sustain even a few seconds of enjoyable gameplay. So I could not play it for a year..

[Seirra_Lanzce]

There is no WOW gaming experience, no immersion in their content, nor do they have a battle system awesome enough to alleviate the devastating effect that WOW's graphics have on my ability to sustain even a few seconds of enjoyable gameplay. So I could not play it for a year..

:\ wow you sure hate WoW, you don't even take the time to read the lore and immerse yourself?

[KiriA500]

There is no WOW gaming experience, no immersion in their content, nor do they have a battle system awesome enough to alleviate the devastating effect that WOW's graphics have on my ability to sustain even a few seconds of enjoyable gameplay. So I could not play it for a year..

Weird. I got quite involved in some of the quest lines. Guess I've been playing it wrong.

Sounds like someone's just hating to hate. That's just awful that you can't enjoy things.

[Kallera]

If this is a true wow clone then it'll have my attention about as long as the actual wow: 1-2hours.

[debola]

For me, I started playing this game because it was "Final Fantasy" 14. I'm not all that into mmo rpg's, im just one of the biggest fans of the FF series. As long as SE provides me with the jaw dropping graphics, deep, long and interesting storylines that ive come to expect, I will be happy.

P.S I also like the faster paced fighting their giving now too. All in all. Looking forward to beta. XD