Quote Originally Posted by Psykotsu View Post
Funny how people say it's okay that XIV takes from XI, a successful mmo in their opinion and they accept it. But bash the idea of taking from an mmo that has been a world wide success. (WoW).
It's one thing to be inspired/borrow elements that works well from a successful game, it's another thing completely when one near copies the whole damn thing and put a different skin on it, which is what all too many MMOs these days try to do with WoW.

It's important to maintain your own identity and have your own unique appeal, because you can't out-WoW WoW itself, any attempts to do so will just get you an inferior version of WoW, which has had way much more time to polish and create its contents.