Quote Originally Posted by Alhanelem View Post
Just because XI was successful, doesn't mean that they should be pulling every idea and concept from it.
However, what that says is exactly what Yoshida says in regards to pulling from WoW. He stated the reason XI even got successful is because it did what it should have done, Look at Final Fantasy (Hence: Final Fantasy XI) and use the appropriate MMO framework (EverQuest at the time.)

So unless I haven't kept up with MMOs, there's still plenty that XI does well that new MMOs have yet to do or has done extremely poorly that they could easily look at and build from it while still using "Standard" framework..however people immediately says something is from GW2 just because it's a new MMO lol.