Quote Originally Posted by BruceyBruceyBangBang View Post
These are general systems. Of course it would be pulled from other games. Just like any other tool in life.
This is the reason FFXI is mainly referenced:

1. Final Fantasy XI - Final Fantasy XIV -- Pretty straight forward.

2. Squaresoft(Enix) developed both games.

3. Between FFXI's original Beta (2001) and FFXIV's development (2007) they introduced another MMORPG that didn't throw out the basics Front Mission Online. (It wasn't horrible, it wasn't great it was a good entry to the Front Mission series, but could have been better.

4. They had 10 years of MMO development knowledge and experience.

It has nothing to do with Nostalgia, it has to do with Square had the perfect basic foundation to build off of and make it something better (different you know?) What XIV was wasn't just different, they did everything from the foundation to content style different for the sake of it, because remember, their original mantra was "We did it this way to make it as different from FFXI as possible."..their entire goal was to make nothing beyond races similar to XI...almost to the point of overkill, especially in regards to RMT.

They're basic systems, but there's still yet to be an MMO where I can literally open my chat box, type /search ___ and turn up results.