Quote Originally Posted by Exstal View Post
I firmly believe making it a WoW clone is only bad for people who've played WoW before.　It means absolutely nothing to those who haven't (majority of the Japanese, I reckon). So I don't think that's a bad argument.
Indeed, and good for the people who enjoy that, which is why they bleed from their eyes and ears at the very sight of whenever someone mentions SE's other FF MMO, because they likely didn't like it or never even played it. XI was successful but it was at a time prior to MMOs being mainstream, so likewise, it also didn't have as much exposure since it was a primarily Japanese MMO. It just shows how flipflop people are when it comes to that subject though.

It also helped in ARR's favors that WoW has been in an awkward place the past year, so once this year finishes up and Blizzard is back on track with it, we'll see what the MMO trend is then, since if you didn't noticed, those moving away from copying WoW are now copying the more "TERA" style of MMO gameplay.