Thayos wrote:
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Yeah, it's pretty much exactly like the system in WoW. Essentially, you turn old gear into a crafting material which allows you to enchant the new gear you just got with bonus stats. It may not be exact in name or procedure, but the end result is identical.
And WoW got that system from Final Fantasy, which came out years earlier.
So, we really shouldn't be portraying materia as something FF is copying from WoW, when really, it's something numerous games have attempted to copy from Final Fantasy.
Remember, Final Fantasy VII is one of the most popular video games of all time. There's no shame in WoW using systems from that game.
You're reaching a bit here Thayos. The response I gave was in reply to this...
Kashius1138 wrote:
There is no other game that I've played, seen or read about that allows you to make use of your old gear in a way that FFXIV does.
The systems in WoW and XIV are similar in that regard, but completely different from materia as it existed in FFVII. To say that WoW's enchanting system copied FFVII's materia system is quite a stretch...
There are things that WoW borrow from various games, but I wouldn't count materia as one of them.