Quote Originally Posted by AlaulaTheGreat View Post
Sure a lot of us want FFXIV to succeed, But by inspiration, I feel you want SE to go into the direction, "Oh man, "X" looks pretty sweet! Lets replace that with our "A"! Oh man, the players don't like B so much, lets cut it and replace it with this feature "Y" that is being show cased in this new MMO! Our player base will love us for it!"

Soon as SE gets "Inspired" enough, the player base will only turn on them. I know I will be the first to stand up on my little dingy soap box to proclaim SE is a bunch of hacks and screw your high profit margins (as I get off of it to play more, cause I love the abuse)!

We'll just have to give the players what they want, FFXIV- Frankenstein's Remix of the Goodies From Any MMO That Looks Fun.
You have a point, but an immersive world and quests isn't a feature that should be exclusive to one game, just like optimization and an easy-to-use UI shouldn't be exclusive to World of Warcraft. They're things that XIV (and every other MMO) should strive to implement.