Once again, I think I pissed off a game dev. · 11:42am Sep 11th, 2015

Wow...SE REALLY doesn't want people to find out or learn the truth about their stuff do they?

This makes the second time I've been banned from an SE game related forum with no intention of flaming them and merely stating common facts that anyone with an eye for business and/or detail would notice.

The fact that they banned me even temp for what I said in this post makes it all the more true.

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Thread Title:
"To the Dev team Please don't let this game die out! Is FFXI 2.0 Possible?"
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Original Post:
"Their biggest flaws are in what they are trying to do. For many years now, SE has been trying to foolishly rip off other games in order to seize the market on them.
If you don't think that's the case, lets look at some examples:
Final Fantasy 15.
Open world combat system plus exploration.
Open World and Final Fantasy shouldn't even be used in the same sentence, much less be used for any of their games.
So why is SE doing this?
Because Skyrim and a fair few other games were HUGE HITS.
Final Fantasy 14 ARR:
It looks like a WoW-Rip, it feels like a WoW-Rip, and that's because IT IS a WoW-Rip. Yoshi-P even openly admitted in the closed phase 3 beta forums that they WANTED the combat and skill systems to look and feel like WoW's in order to attract the WoW gamer pop. Why do you think all end game is nothing but doing 8-man raids to farm gear?
Final Fantasy 13-2 and Lightning Returns.
Final Fantasy 13-2 tried to play off the popular gaming trope with this one by giving the players tons of content but zero story. Something a fair amount of games did at the time when it was released. They thought the players wouldn't care if they had plenty to do but they keep forgetting that their reputation precedes them in one fact: FF games ARE KNOWN for their stories.
Lightning Returns was SE's attempt as ripping off the ever popular Devil May Cry series. I can't speak much on this game as I haven't played much of it but the combat system reeks of DMA 4's combat system.
Final Fantasy 13 was SE's last known completely original FF game."
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