Quote Originally Posted by Amage View Post
I would like to know beside the games you said you played have you ever fully played Final Fantasy 11 . Just wondering because asking because we were discussing this today in my ls . I know every game needs to be different and i know you may not answer or even respond but i also would like to know why both games are so far apart from each other
Well, to be fair, Yoshi-P wasn't in charge of the initial design of FFXIV. Tanaka was. And I'm pretty sure Tanaka was familiar with FFXI, since he was its lead designer.

I seem to remember that in one of the many interviews they've done, Yoshi-P and his team agreed with you. They said that the dev team in FFXIV tried too hard to be different just for the sake of being different, and they think that was a mistake.

Someone with a little more time -- or a little better Google-fu -- than me will have to find and post a link to the interview.