Also the character animations are motion capture and well... >.> ffxi had the same thing all black magic casting was the same, all white magic casting was the same, same for summoning and blue magic.

Imo sometimes "big buget" effects/ animation kinda get cheesy after a while. After a while ppl just don't care and only care about the dmg it does. Why put in a ton of data in for something that in a year no one will give a flip about. After a week I tuned out my casting in ffxi and just seeing the dmg I do. think the only effects I liked in ffxi was the enspells. And only because they was simple.