Quote Originally Posted by ZioSerpe View Post
See, even if I understand that point I find it to be rather weak one:
FFXIV is the only real competitor to the juggernaut that is World of Warcraft, if you really want to compete you need to at least try and match what they do, over the course of their expansion they added new races, improved the old ones, added customization. Now I do understand that is probably easier for WoW due to the different art style, but still, Square Enix is not exactly the indie company developing pixel games in the basement of your apartment building. They have the power to invest in the game, and if ou want to keep old players invested and find new players those are the sort of things you kinda have to do.
If we're about to compare WoW and FFXIV, WoW doesn't even come close to the graphics/detail on character complexity. Their animations are really simple and repeated on combat for different attacks, only things that change are the attack particles/effect. And the amount of work it needs compared to a FFXIV character modeling is way less.