I think it will be compared strongly with TESO. I have a feeling review sites will be doing "vs" articles toward the end of the year, just after their releases. I think this will help FFXIV, as it will bring it back into the limelight... Here's to hoping it takes advantage of the opportunity and is the better game of the two.

I wonder which one will come out first? Presumably one will have the job of retaining subscribers through the other's launch month and will need to have a strong update out at that time to do so. I hope that the timing impact won't be ignored by either company; to do so would be an terrible oversight.

(sorry, not trying to provoke an FFXIV vs TESO conversation here; there's other threads for that. Just pointing out this timing issue)