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[Anapingofness]

I dislike the official translation even more.

All it says to me is "We've decided to throw out 90% of what is to be an FF game and instead opted to copy WoW. Oh, and by the way you're paying for all of these things before they're implemented. What? The flop that was FFXIV a year ago? Don't worry about it! You can trust us. This will be awesome!!"

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lamesauce SE...

[Alerith]

I dislike the official translation even more.

All it says to me is "We've decided to throw out 90% of what is to be an FF game and instead opted to copy WoW. Oh, and by the way you're paying for all of these things before they're implemented. What? The flop that was FFXIV a year ago? Don't worry about it! You can trust us. This will be awesome!!"

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lamesauce SE...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztVMib1T4T4

[Alhanelem]

I dislike the official translation even more.

All it says to me is "We've decided to throw out 90% of what is to be an FF game and instead opted to copy WoW. Oh, and by the way you're paying for all of these things before they're implemented. What? The flop that was FFXIV a year ago? Don't worry about it! You can trust us. This will be awesome!!"

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lamesauce SE...

Comments like this are what is "lamesauce." They aren't taking out everything that makes it final fantasy, unless you're a firm believer that bad UIs, videocard-melting graphics systems, dysfunctional mechanics, and clunky movement are what makes "final fantasy."

The reason why stuff gets copied from WoW is because WoW did a lot of things right. WoW is hardly perfect of course- The three main things wrong with WoW are:

Hyper overdependence on gear for stats
Terrible, highly judgemental community (Your "Gear score" not high enough? No you can't run this dungeon with us")
Cartoony graphical theme

FFXIV still has none of these problems.