Originally Posted by
Vold
Put it to you this way: I would be incredibly surprised if they were to ever offer an updated FFXI. Even though it's easily worth it even now to give us a new fresh coat of paint for FFXI because millions of dollars says it's damn worth it, it is painfully obvious they are content with status quo FFXI. FFXIV was their answer to a graphically improved FFXI. No one asked for it but that's what they chose to do so they could try to cash in on the work that they so consider 'not worth the investment' for a "freebie".
So... yeah. You will win the lottery before SE gives us justice on this matter. That's how sure I am that they will never do it. We are extremely lucky that Tanaka felt sorry enough for us to give us windows client updates before he left. I'm sure they'll continue that work until it's done then I'm certain it's goodbye to updates like that to FFXI. And why should they? It's not like it's the industry standard to give your ten year old MMO a facelift to breathe fresh life into your game that people have been staring at for a decade to entice them to stick around even longer. What a dumb investment lol no one ever does such a thing.