Quote Originally Posted by Kilta_Firelotus View Post
umm ffxi was out only 3-4 years when they started ffxi. so in reality they only had 3 year experiance. And it was a defferent dev team all together. And chances are didn't keep tabs on each other. if they started developing ffxiv now then it would be 9 years experience.
Actually Tanaka was the lead in both games at the start. And if I remember correctly in interviews before release they stated alot of team was the same which is why so many land mark designs are similar in design and concept to FFXI.