Quote Originally Posted by Pixela View Post
To be clear, they have literally stated that the money that was going to upgrade XI to a ps3 and later possibly ps4 game instead went to make XIV. They just assumed everyone from 11 would play 14, which is why they made the races identical (even the hairs are similar). Quite why they chose to change the names though makes zero sense to me.
No, they literally stated that the cost to remake the world was not worth it, and they expected the game to end with the end of PS2. That is different than "money for 11 went to 14." Massive amount of development resources isn't about the resources of the team, but the work they have to do in this context.

They used the similar looking races because they were building on their success and prior work and had a connection to XI. Come on, this isn't hard.