XI-2 was released this past September, or didn't you notice?

[Tsuga]

you're getting all hell bent after I stated a known fact. you can't get a clue can you?

"The most cowerdly (or in this case, the one with the weakest argument) dog barks the loudest".

Let him continue to rant at anybody who opposes his position, he's only proving that his argument is paper thin.

To the OP, this game started out as FFXI-2 in early development, but the devs took it into a direction that separates it from XI in nearly every field outside of appearance and item/mob names. Granted, it was mostly flawed, and the new team has decided to lean on old ideas to try to fix the problems with the old system. Yes this game is a lot like XI, but that does not make it XI-2, any more than the similarities between FFIII, and FFV make them direct sequels to each other. The key difference in every FF is its world and/or its story, and Hydaelyn is all ready established as a different world from Vana'diel.

Long story short, stating that there are a ton of similarities between XI and XIV is only stating the obvious - that doesn't mean that XIV has to borrow every single idea that worked in XI, like so many former/current XI players would rather it did. Those of us who realize that XI has very dated systems would rather the dev team come up with new and better ideas, than simply import them from XI. It's a lot of the XI player-base that is so narrow-minded that they think that XI's systems are the only ones that will ever work.