Project Rapture, in its orignal form.

[Atomic_Skull]

To rebuild the engine with more functionality and rework the graphics to be on par with 14? Years with few if any updates while we waited. The company is already hurting right now so I don't think they want to pour money into reworking two mmorpgs at once.

Don't get me wrong, I would at least love to see them at the very least repair their engine to where they clean up alot of their spaghetti code issues. I just don't see it happening.

Why would they need to rebuild the engine? Just license Gamebryo Lightspeed or something and build a new FFXI client with it (it's already been used for Rift and Warhammer, as well as Oblivion, Fallout 3 and a number of other AAA titles)

There is really no logical reason to build your own engine anymore, you're better off licensing one from someone else these days and putting your development man hours into content using a prebuilt toolset that comes with the engine rather than having to build your own. And if the toolset doesn't do something you want you can still make your own custom tool to do only that.