TESO the biggest rival for ARR?

[Velhart]

I don't see how ARR is competing with TESO, when they seem to have an entirely different appeal and different audiences with little crossover.

Pretty much, and FFXIV has a whole customer base that TESO doesn't, the PS3 players. Before the original FFXIV came out, the most appealing thing about it to people was the fact that they could play it on a console, because not everyone has a PC that runs it, or runs it at a decent spec. Then again, it took an above average PC to run FFXIV at a playable state, while developers claim that you could run ARR on a low end PC. I do believe overall the amount of PS3 players will be very high and console players are an audience that TESO cannot get.

Then again, TESO isn't really aiming for them, which kind of goes back to my different audience statement. I would honestly consider DC Universe Online a competitor to FFXIV more than TESO, but that is just my opinion. I think the games TESO will be competing against will be WoW and GW2.

I thought we owe it all to D&D, but oh well.

If we are to talk about who started video game RPG's, Wizardry had a large hand in that one. Dragon Quest influenced from that, then Final Fantasy influenced from Dragon Quest. I can't say exactly where WRPG's molded from, because you don't really see much JRPG elements in one. D&D ultimately started RPG's as a whole, but the console game that set WRPG's off is a bit of a mystery to me, maybe Wizardry!