I have to agree with you, but I think its more then just not having enough money to do this. Its much more deeper then that. You can see a trend in SE after FFXIV's failure. The company spent craploads of FFXI sub money to make a new final fantasy that actually bombed, leaving FFXI to pay the price for it. SE stocks took a huge hit and they took huge yearly losses from FFXIV by putting all thier eggs into one basket.

Since then they have a new producer and adopted new standards of zero investment for the final fantasy mmo's, and grouped both FFXIV and FFXI together as money losers as far as policies go, even when SE admits FFXI brings in huge amounts of cash for them.

You can also see a failed marketing strategy coming out of the SE department towards FFXI and FFXIV. They havent even released this expansion as successfully as they had Abyssea Add-ons, it was not advertised anywhere close to it, and it had almost no pre-order time with a sloppy last minute release to major stores and marketplaces, with some outlets still not even having it a week past release date. This shows they are being as cheap as possible in the marketing department when it comes to FFXI as if it was FFXIV and had already failed. This approch harms the games image, and thats more important then they realize, because your games image is directly tied into weather people want to play it or not.

They seem to be following the Sony model, which has not even made a new MMO in thier EQ series in years, or even so much as an update to thier graphics system or game engine to keep up with the times, yet at the same time they rake in so much money off of thier station cash stores there is no reason not to spend some of it on upgrades.

SE could also make PS3 version, but they dont even want to invest a penny into that venture either, even though they would make a ton of cash off of it. Releases like this have never been as bad till FFXIV tanked, if you really want the answer to why they have cut all spending to FFXI, look at the monstrosity FFXIV. The old producers admited they spent FFXI sub money to create FFIXV, and they lost so big that FFXI is now paying the price of it in the form of reformed marketing and investing into the final fantasy series, theres no reason to not have ps2 release, a steam release, a marketing campaign with ads on TV to bring in new customers, ect. unless theres been a change in investment and marketing strategies towards saving as much money as possible. Even when money taken in by FFXI doesnt justify it, after all the FFXI subs could build a monstrosity like FFXIV, but not a ps2 version? Seriously... lol.

In the future I see a problem so deep with FFXI pulling back its investment and marketing that FFXI will defiantly not be able to exist. Its facing new mmo's in the near future like ESO, with stunning graphics and a true rpg feel to it. If FFXI is going to compete with those rpg, they are going to have to pull up thier pants after FFXIV and look into transfering FFXI into a state of the art system like the FFXIV game engine. Transfer everyones account over and then continue, or they'll have to take option two which is realize that FFXI wont survive the coming up competition and let it die with as small investments as possible, then create a new FF MMORPG when that happens, which is probably what they are doing. This is taken as a long-term outlook and is probably why your seeing things that dont make sense today as far as marketing and investments go, but for FFXI its a bad sign to say the least.