Before any of you think this is a troll thread, or that I am complaining about something.. That is way far from the main idea. The point of this thread is to see how far making this a Fan Service MMORPG can go, versus how original it should be.

While each numbered Final Fantasy title carries over a few aspects from the earlier games, you can still consider it to be almost completely original. Now, how far should originality go with FFXIV? With the current version 1.0, originality has been tried and failed, but should that be a reason to steer clear from originality, or from most of it?

I am glad that this being a fan service MMO, it will feel like a Final Fantasy game, however, I am in hopes that it has a very strong balance between being too much like Final Fantasy ??? and not enough originality. What are your thoughts?