Is most of FFXIV's failings due to their choice of engine?

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Yeah, it's best to use it, otherwise you'll be having to read "justified" trolling for the rest of this game's life.

On topic though, the crystal tools isn't bad at all, since XIII ran flawlessly and we know how the graphics ended up and Versus XIII as well as "Type/Life Zero" as it's called, is looking and running even better than XIII did. It's not a pure gaming engine, but XIV is horribly optimized which comes with not only a server side interface, but also being rushed out. Compared to FFXI that utilizes the same features and on a custom engine as well, it would have behooved them to build off of XI's base.

So the engine isn't to blame, it's the general design, serverside interface (reason no one uses one) due to trying to prevent RMT and trying to ignore what their previous FF MMO accomplished as well as the fact their last major MMO, FMO, also was in top shape compared to this one.