Just a little question to leave out in the air:

After reading most of the posts since my last posts earlier on the thread, that's really the only thing I wanna know from the XI vets.

Was Final Fantasy XI so perfect that the only hope Square Enix has is to take as many "concepts" from XI as possible, maybe add a minor spin / improvement on them and call it a day?

Because I still stand to what I've said earlier; Yes, Final Fantasy XIV should take plenty of stuff that worked on XI and put it in the game ASAP, specially when it comes to more general systems such as mail or auction houses. Yes, Final Fantasy XIV needs to invest more into fleshing out it's lore and make the storyline more involved, like XI. More nods to XI (and the series in general) are always good a thing; For example, I have no idea why the hell XI Mandragoras aren't here yet, it should've been the third monster they designed, right after Cactuars and Tonberries.

But no, Final Fantasy XIV should not fall back into merely picking up something from XI whenever a new idea fails. I want to believe Yoshi-P is able to deliver us content that is innovative, lasts for a long time, offers meaningful rewards and lore, indeed like XI; But, with they being nothing like XI. The FFXIV team as a whole should be able to make us new systems and concepts that work as well as XI's systems without being the same thing.

Not because XI was "bad", not because putting anything from XI is a bad idea, but because this game CAN turn into something better than it's predecessor without being incredibly similar to it.