it feels like ffxi party 2 to me as well, kinda. it felt a little fresher at beta/start of launch but now with every patch it's getting more and more like ffxi clone. probably will all there screw ups they just saving the game by giving us a ffxi part 2 rather then going in a fresher path.

but it's not the good things that make me feel like i'm in ffxi, all the things i liked aren't there, it's all the monotemy, and the things that i did not like in ffxi that give ffxiv that feeling like it's ffxi. it has been 6months and i already feel like i've been playing this game for 5years. it took 700days of game play to get to this feeling that 6months of ffxiv has already put me.

if they keep going with the changes maybe it can turn for the good, or it can turn to shit lol. time will tell wtf they is doing.