Quote Originally Posted by Volcano View Post
Spirits within was basically a terrible movie with the FF name, anyone who actually saw that mess could easily tell you that, and that's just it, it's a MOVIE (if you can call it that) i am not sure why you are comparing it to a MMO.
When you talk about a companies reputation being ruined - What do you think the reputation of Square and FF was like after that? It was made and produced by a branch within Squaresoft, that's what I'm referring to.

Well the game does have mounts and minions, that's about as close to WoW as this game has gotten. but there is a difference between "experience" and an actual clone.
Hence: "clone" and not clone. Also if that's the only thing you noticed..I'm guessing you never played WoW...or tried Summoner (XIV.) WoW to this date remains one of the few popular MMORPGs that even utilizes a GCD system and has no console version, just a thought on that as well comparative to the 1.2x battle system which was closer to what you'd expect from a FF MMORPG, a mix of 'active' and 'moderate pace.'

as you may recall since 1.x was such a huge failure
Actually, they said just recently once 1.2x was out subs tripled, even in the Pay to Play period, so 1.0 was a failure, 1.x wasn't - It's why some of the original story of 1.x still exists even though most of the other stories take place "after the fact" and as if you've never set foot into eorzea before.

maybe that one guys opinion or suggestion got ignored but they went with the majority.
And what do most people want? A WoW "clone" - Hence why they wanted to do it, especially since Japan largely doesn't have those style MMOs or even an official WoW version. Yoshi working with Blizzard even in terms of 'talks' isn't a coincidence since plenty of other companies out there has successful MMORPGs.