Yet another interview..Kotaku however.

[IloveYouPumpkin]

woot something to read, thanks.

[IloveYouPumpkin]

I'm not too worried about the "they should have turned WoW into Final Fantasy" comment. He does mention that it's good to be influenced by what's working, like being influenced by everquest when they created FFXI. Everquest and FFXI aren't copies of each other. I'm pretty sure he understands that you can't simply copy everything from one game and just add your own touch of graphics and characters and call it a success. I'm pretty sure he doesn't think that. All you have to do is look at the load of MMO's that have tried doing this already, and failed immediately.