I, for one, am not the kind of person to give too much thought to the "doom and gloom" theories. Yes, 1.0 was a huge flop (despite it not really being all that bad, imo). But the hype for ARR is high. And from what I've seen and heard, the game is going to be phenomenal. Whether it fails or not will be up to the people who play it, and that judgment is reserved for the future. Yes, many of the game's new features are similar to those seen in other games on the surface. But the core of it is still Final Fantasy through and through. So I don't care about similarities found thrugh nitpicking. And the game is an almost total reboot from the ground up from 1.0, so 1.0's failures don't mean much to me either. All that matters to me is if I'm going to enjoy this game. And from what I've seen, I'll have to say I most definately will.