How exactly is FFXIV like WoW?

[Volcano]

-.- Never said it was a clone, they did say however they drew inspiration from WoW since it was the most popular MMO and that's what they wanted to make, a popular MMO.

Don't bother, i tried this already trying to teach people the difference between a clone and a Inspiration of a game, but some people are blind and refuse to see on their own, "omg the developer said so!" The best thing to do is let some people think what they want to think, some people just refuse to accept this isn't a clone. if it was so is every other MMO out there.

[madolyn]

The difference lies with the fun factor in this game literally being completely drained by the addition of ridiculous "beast tribe" dailies, unnecessary changes to systems such as spiritbonding which ultimately hurt the economy even more, gated features that don't even deserve to be gated such as the ability to dye your chocobo, AF armor, and silly quests to unlock some emotes.

This is mostly my opinion from someone who has completed all of coil and who has an FC and doesn't really have to worry about the gates...just keeping others in mind but I also do find most of the stuff that gets added to the game to be rather boring, pointless, or just nonsense.

flame on.

[Fyce]

WoW Clone

1) Endgame Instance Raid Progression
2) Quest driven leveling
3) Item Level
4) Duty/Dungeon Finder'
5) Short Lived Content (content that is negated ever major patch to allow new players to catch up)
6) Quick Leveling (can get to cap in less then 60hrs of focused playtime.)
7) Focus on accessibility and simplicity of game mechanics
8) Rotation Based tab target combat
9) The UI design is a pure WoW clone. but then again everyone adopted the model.

A lot of these were defining the MMORPG genre before WoW even existed.
What you are describing is a lot of well known game mechanics for the MMORPG genre, meaning that we find these in a lot of games.
WoW made them popular, but that's it.
Plus, using the word "clone" means that it's a perfect copy of the original, which is obviously not the case for FF XIV.

[PixelPirate]

Instructional videos:
http://youtu.be/dpmy7Ze18NY
http://youtu.be/TeO2oNe19Ko

[Edli]

Actually, Everquest borrowed a lot of its structure from Ultima Online, which is credited as being the first "true" MMO (meaning element standards that persist to today). All current and past MMOs owe their existence to UO.

Lets just agree that games borrow from what came before them and built upon it.

[Gramul]

A lot of these were defining the MMORPG genre before WoW even existed.
What you are describing is a lot of well known game mechanics for the MMORPG genre, meaning that we find these in a lot of games.
WoW made them popular, but that's it.
Plus, using the word "clone" means that it's a perfect copy of the original, which is obviously not the case for FF XIV.

Would you mind listing them and for what games? Because most of these where either introduced or made popular by WoW. MMO's prior where more based on the Everquest/Ultima sandbox model.

Secondly, "clone" in the instance of media, especially games, is referring to the core structure and model used in its design. If "clone" was a literal exact copy, the only use of the word would be for having multiple disks of the same game.

[Velhart]

How do people still defend that this isn't a WoW clone, THE DEVELOPER SAID IT WAS MULTIPLE TIMES.

Please point to where he directly said that this game is a WoW clone. Since you say he has said it multiple times, I expect multiple sources.

Can't really hold a candle to the Final Fantasy series in general in terms of original mechanics. They have been using inspiration from other games since day 1. At most they shake up the formula somewhat. What Final Fantasy has always exceeded in has been it's quality, presentation, and story lines. If you believe they bring originality beyond that, you are poorly mistaken.