FFXIV-- the fear of a WoW Clone is real...

[Thebard]

Ohhh I'm scared! WoW is evil, make the bad man go away!
Who are these babies?

[ShinigamiKayla]

pffftt why clone WoW we should be cloning a WoW clone itself that way it makes sense!~ then we can make a new term instead of saying WoW clone o_o hell they should make FFXIV an FPS and clone call of duty or something~

in all seriousness I wanted to see Kingdoms of Amalur MMO I'm sad that the company went bankrupt the game was amazing... and how much they had developed on their MMO looked nice too...

[Obsy]

pffftt why clone WoW we should be cloning a WoW clone itself that way it makes sense!~ then we can make a new term instead of saying WoW clone o_o hell they should make FFXIV an FPS and clone call of duty or something~

You've successfully 'sploded my brain.

[Gramul]

Long as the quest progression can be more than: kill X of Y at Z for your standard equipment till endgame where the game actually begins for some reason. I don't give a rat's tail. At least not now. I'm too tired.

[Thebard]

Long as the quest progression can be more than: kill X of Y at Z for your standard equipment till endgame where the game actually begins for some reason. I don't give a rat's tail. At least not now. I'm too tired.

You are a tail-less wonder.

[Felis]

Long as the quest progression can be more than: kill X of Y at Z for your standard equipment till endgame where the game actually begins for some reason. I don't give a rat's tail. At least not now. I'm too tired.

Hmm, we have the kill quests like you say
and we have /emote quests, escort quests, "bring me a specific item from a specific place. You need only to kill for self-defense" quests, "go to many places and talk to many NPC" quests, "craft/gather a specific item" quests, "a NPC got missing, go and save him/her" quests.
And some more.

[BruceyBruceyBangBang]

Long as the quest progression can be more than: kill X of Y at Z for your standard equipment till endgame where the game actually begins for some reason. I don't give a rat's tail. At least not now. I'm too tired.

More than that, sure, but I never understood this complaint. Do you not want battles in MMORPGs? I think you're just tired of MMOs in general, actually.

[Duelle]

FFXIV-- the fear of a WoW Clone is real...

Only in your mind, OP. Only in your mind.

[Judge_Xero]

Sometimes I fear, but then I watch the "End of a Realm" Trailer.

[Yolteotl]

Everyone is taking a statement and creating their own ideas out of it. To me, the better way to imagine what direction ARR is going to take is to look at 1.0 what it was and where it went (and considering the limitations of 1.0 and only a partial amount of the development team was involved).

More than likely the only reason the statement about looking @ SWToR and GW2 was even made was to give Westerners examples of how they are not blindly going to push ARR without an understanding of market competition, which was one major downfall of the 1.0 launch. And before the trolls are like 'But the Letter Live was a JP event', it was a Global event and Yoshi-P and everyone else involved knew that; they and the company they represent are just obviously Japanese.

Also, for the posts referring to tbe players doing nothing but jumping around in Alpha; Alpha is just a stress-test so the only real importance is to have ur character there doing something. And sice they were asked to follow the Dev as part of the Live/Alpha combination, not much else to do and stay within the parameters of the event and the stress-test.