Quote Originally Posted by Alhanelem View Post
If you think there's nothing similar about their development processes, design philosophies, etc. then you're blind. Also if you think there's no similarities between the two games themselves, you're also blind.
Let's look at what's different:

- The entire elemental system.
- The entire gear system.
- The basic content (notorious monsters, dynamis, classes, leveling, ease, etc.)
- The races and functions (stats.)
- Events.

What's the same? I'm seriously asking because I have no idea what's left that could be comparably the same.

Further, no, the development process and design of each games are different on a fundamental level, it's not the same group, it's not the same mentality of staff, other than being from the same company/series they are not comparable enough to use it as a basis for your own assumptions.