Quote Originally Posted by aveyond-dreams View Post
All early FFXIV did was take the parts of WoW that worked well at the time and copied them over. It's not the massive thing worth overpraising like some seem to think it is.



You say that yet so many other games have tried the wow clone approach and failed. Most spectacularly.



So why did XIV succeed? Certainly wasn't name recognition, considering the first iteration was one of the biggest failures in gaming history.