Quote Originally Posted by Anathiel View Post
Alright now that I fully understand your system, yeah you're right it is a good system...but not original (or final fantasy-esque). And right now yoshi-p is trying not to copy (too much) main stream MMO's. Good ides, but I don't think they're going that way.
A good idea is a good idea. Nobody in WoW is currently complaining that having an AH was 'too much like FFXI', or that the new battlegrounds were 'too much stolen from WAR'. Nobody in Call of Duty is calling the game a Doom clone, and nobody in MvC3 thinks it's a tekken tag rip-off.

Games are about evolution. Good artists create, great artists steal. It's not like 'talent trees' weren't a ripoff of the old school FFs anyway... Why shouldn't SE be able to reclaim and reuse ideas they were responsible for in the first place?