Final Fantasy Game Director is a WOW player!

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I only knew about it because of this post I believe

If Blizzard treated their players like Square Enix does

That’s the key thing. They realize PvE is an element to their game but it isn’t for everyone. They didn’t throw their eggs into one basket. They expanded the world around it so the game wasn’t literally “raid or die.” Part of the development of XIV when Yoshi-P took over was making the team actually play World of Warcraft Cataclysm and MoP. Seeing what other games were doing and thinking on what systems would work, what they could improve, and what the downfalls were and not making the same mi…

I think someone linked an article where he said it in an interview a while back as well.