Quote Originally Posted by Edax View Post
I wasn't around for OG FFXIV. So what happens if Square Enix decides to upgrade to a new engine again? Do we get news of it well in advance? And what would carry over to the new version of FFXIV? Would I lose my house?
1.0 shut down in November of 2012 from what I understand, and 2.0 came out in August of 2013. However that short period of time didn't allow them to create a new engine so much as frankenstein the old one into a mess of spaghetti code that's still causing problems to this day. If they were to develop a completely new engine, even just porting all the assets, it would likely take a lot longer than nearly a year to fix everything properly. You likely would also lose your house in the transfer and character if they went by what happened between 1.0-2.0.