Hm makes sense, i did kinda like wow atleats up until some point, but it got boring after awhile.
Long hours of raiding etc, wiating for ppl to log in so the raid pt could start.

Too much simmilarities to an original game kills the fun.
So ya, im glad FFXIV isnt a WoW or FFXI clone atm.

But in all fairness, if FFXIV should be a clone of something its FFXI.. not WoW.
Besides, FFXIV's gfx engine sweeps the floor with both WoW / Rift.

imo FFXIV stands much better chance than Rift of surving this mmo era.