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[Atomic_Skull]

Blame Tanaka, he ignored FFXI while pissing away the development funds that should have gone to improving FFXI on his terrible game engine that ended up looking like something made in 2005 when it was in fact released in 2010.

They should have started planning for the eventual end of the PS2 platform and began migrating the tools to the PC/360 version back in 2007 or so but Tanaka was convinced that it wouldn't matter because we'd all leave FFXI en mass for FFXIV and then they could just pull the plug on the servers.

SE has always had terrible practices when it comes to development though. For example all of the final source code and original assets for FF7 were deleted from their development systems to make room for FF8 files and nobody at SE thought to back anything up. This is why the PC version of FF7 used PS1 textures and video files, the originals were gone. Also the PC version was based on a copy of the beta source code that someone found laying around on an old hard drive that hadn't been wiped.