When is SquareEnix going to start making the game?

[Jennestia]

I would go as far as to speculate that they've spent more time f**king with their engine than making this game. Sadly, high-resolution normal mapping does not make a game, and their charm is even further diminished by inadequare in-game UIs and technical bugs.

It's not speculation, they stated the White Engine/Crystal Tools engine was the longest development time due to FFXIII's move from the PS2 to the PS3. The WE/CT engine is a cinematic/seamless engine which in XIV's case, it's ONLY because they refused to build off of FFXI instead of taking what work and ran with it.