I think I am one of the few people on this forum who have played WoW, FFXI and FFXIV heavily as a result of injuries, grad school etc, basically I have had little to no life 8 months a year for 8 years now. Anyway, that void was filled with MMOs and I have seen every dungeon in WoW while the content was still new, I have done everything in FFXI before abyssia and I beat the shit out of FFXIV before Nov when I just couldn't take this game anymore.

Anyway, I don't think many people want a remake of WoW or FFXI for FFXIV, but SE has definantly not learned ANYTHING out of the past 10 years. THis game feels worse then XI did back in 03 and WoW in 04. WoWs UI is georgous and modable and fluid and spammy. XI was cluncky but meaningfull. I was expecting XIV to be smoth, lith and meaningfull but apparently that was over ambitious. I wanted to like FFXIV, in fact I spent 3 months with 6 or so buddies I collected form the varous games listed above and tried really hard to make this game work, (granted this was before nov patch) but they dind't learn anything from wow. It is like they said ok we do not want to be like WoW or XI so lets refuse to put anything from either game into FFXIV regardless of how good it may be.

In short, WoW and XI had many good qualities about them and their uniqueness and advantage were in different areas, merging the two could have been a recipe for something amazing, but sadly SE didn't and we all lost out on a great oppertunity. If you can't learn from your own mistakes or the mistakes of others then you desirve your fate.