Quote Originally Posted by Isal View Post
That link to the Freshly Picked Vana'diel Update earlier in this thread gives their answer as to why: They intend to continue small updates involving balancing, bugs, and improving Quality of Life for as long as feasible beyond the conclusion of Rhapsodies of Vana'diel. However, the updates typically have to accommodate the limited memory of the PlayStation 2 and Xbox 360 consoles, so they're dropping support for them and focusing that support on the PC platform.
Ah, I missed the memory limitation thing the first time. Still, it's baffling that they could accommodate the limited memory in both consoles for all these years -- even up to the conclusion content -- yet the balance updates and stuff afterwards are a deal breaker. I guess we'll have to wait and see what they're able to do with the updates after that console bottleneck is removed. Call me a pessimist, but I don't really expect much to change/improve afterwards.