I keep hearing in interviews and from the AMA, that the main problem XI has is a lack of funds (above and beyond what it makes) for an engine rewrite to move away from consoles and make it a pure PC game. They can't do proper updates because of PS2 dev kits for example, an expensive engine rewrite would be required.
I know the game is profitable but that it doesn't make enough money to warrant such an expensive amount of programming work. Is there any chance the community reps could ask the devs if they would consider an engine rewrite kick-starter or something? There are a lot of players who really love this game and have disposable income to put into a project to fix the issues that currently plague it.
I'm not asking for a graphics overall or a new graphics engine (that would bloat the cost to extremes), just rewriting it as a pc exclusive so that new content can be made away from the ps2 dev kits.
I'm not sure what the main stumbling block is here or how much we are actually talking about but this game still has a fairly large amount of fans that would put money into a kickstarter if it would help the problems the devs currently have that are stopping them making proper new content additions.
There are plenty of low quality mmorpg titles made form sratch on kickstarter that raise millions, I'm sure a game such as this with a very passionate fanbase could equal or better that.