Quote Originally Posted by Elexia View Post
Except no one said what you're accusing of. You stated that, not me. You decided to attack me out of the blue.
You use the wording "standard western MMORPG", which Dark Age of Camelot isn't (nor is Warhammer Online), and A Realm Reborn isn't as well.

There's no "out of the blue". You said something utterly nonsensical and fairly ignorant, and got called on it.

Except no one was being negative. Why else would you swap notes with western/eastern developers? They know their markets. Yoshida's own words was he felt they should take WoW and merge it with FF, which people consider "the global standard" and pretty much what everyone follows since. Unless you happened to forget that he's met with Blizzard as well.
You completely misrepresented Yoshida's words.

Looking at what the competition does, which is indispensible to cultivate one's market awareness, doesn't in any way imply doing something "standard". Which ARR isn't anyway, as everything we've seen so far clearly shows.