Cinematics and FFXIV

[Pterois]

Neither FFXI nor FFXIV has done these "out of engine" cutscenes for anything other than bumpers and trailers for things like expansions. 1.0 is actually the exception in that it has an ending cutscene.
These trailers take a long, LONG time to make, and are wholly impractical for MMO development cycles.
And, to point out, every single example you just showed is an out-of-engine cutscene.

I know they are "out-of-engine" (not game play) screen shots... thats the whole point lol, im saying for the huge cut scene events like 2.55 this game would really benefit from it. Also I used to be a motion graphics designer in the past so i am well aware of the time it takes to complete such a task, i just do print design now and im working on stuff for christmas already lol. But it is far from impossible since they knew what was gonna transpire in 2.55 forever ago. Just talking about big events... not every side quest here and there.

[KayoZ]

I know they are "out-of-engine" (not game play) screen shots... thats the whole point lol, im saying for the huge cut scene events like 2.55 this game would really benefit from it. Also I used to be a motion graphics designer in the past so i am well aware of the time it takes to complete such a task, i just do print design now and im working on stuff for christmas already lol. But it is far from impossible since they knew what was gonna transpire in 2.55 forever ago. Just talking about big events... not every side quest here and there.

I dont think you really know how long it actually takes to do scenes like that. Rendering time alone is staggering and it gets worse the more complicated it is. I read Cars 2 took like half a day per frame... and thats Pixar with HUGE render farms that im sure put whatever SE uses to shame. Sure SE only needs a 2-3 minute video but thats still a lot to do and invest in. There is a reason they can only do them per expansion. Not to mention the man hours it takes to set up, model, animate, light, program, and post-production stuff (compositing, music, sound fx, etc). Its just not practical.

Besides, this makes more sense with standard SP FF games since our characters are the same person. Whats the point in doing all that if all youll be doing is watching other characters at best. Honestly, in game graphics have gotten good enough IMO.