Yet another interview..Kotaku however.

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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.

I have to agree with this.

At the time, they took elements from their flagship franchise and worked them into the EverQuest MMO framework. In these new days, it isn't unreasonable to take elements from the same franchise and put it into the current framework. In this case, WoW.

The only thing we should be leery of is if they try to make it a carbon copy of WoW, which it does not seem like they are doing. XIV should be as much of a copy of WoW as XI was for EQ.