No kidding, from what I've heard for years now awaiting XIV across dozens of gaming sites, damn near the entire FFXI community would have loved to have just had an HD ver of XI, instead of XIV. I personally wanted that more than anything. And while I know XIV is "slowly" getting better, its still just missing so much, and everything I read from Yoshi, it sounds like in the end XIV is being rebuilt from the ground up...why not just scrap it now and remake XI with the Crystal Tools engine. Its so much better than XIV will ever be...

And yes their older titles are so much better than the new ones. Besides IX & XI, I feel that VIII was the beginning of their downfall...especially X.