Six Questions

[User201109011315]

It revealed his lack of comprehension to say it that way at all. WOW is an MMO that fulfills the desires of people who prefer that style of MMO. FF Online provides an entirely different experience, and the group of people who want that particular experience are outnumbered by the people who want the experience provided by WOW. It's as simple as that.

Saying that Final Fantasy Online could "dethrone" WoW is like saying that Cheezits will dethrone the meat food group. It not only sounds entirely unrealistic, but it doesn't make any godsdamned sense.

FFXIV is becoming a WoW clone now though.

I guess Wada is pulling the strings again.

That's why he hand-picked Yoshi to begin with.

"I want one young go-getter to make this game into WoW as fast as possible! Any volunteers?"

[Anonymoose]

I find it pretty shortsighted to call anything a [X]Clone. In the world of MMOs, we're all playing Dungeons & Dragons, but we're all playing with radically different DMs who are varying levels of competent in what their friend group finds "Fun."

If WoW has good things to offer the future of MMOs, those traits should live on -- hopefully the WoW we take in will replace the aspects of FFXI that made it a rather masochistic addiction at times.

I doubt we'll ever move too too far out of the sandbox though. When I see a Skill Tree, I'll give you your silver for a wise prediction.

[User201109011315]

I find it pretty shortsighted to call anything a [X]Clone. In the world of MMOs, we're all playing Dungeons & Dragons, but we're all playing with radically different DMs who are varying levels of competent in what their friend group finds "Fun."

If WoW has good things to offer the future of MMOs, those traits should live on -- hopefully the WoW we take in will replace the aspects of FFXI that made it a rather masochistic addiction at times.

WoW is incompatible with www.finalfantasyxiv.com so to increase one's WoW-ness is to decrease one's FFXIV-ness.

It's not necessarily improvement going from one to the other. It is merely change.

improvement is trusting one's own original vision and acting to achieve it.

Whats happening under Yoshi's regime is not "getting the best of both worlds". It's merely "replacing one world for another". Emulation =/= improvement.

The higher-ups clearly think a WoW-model will generate more fi$cal revenue, so I guess that's why Yoshi was chosen despite his evident inadequacy with respect to innovation.