Quote Originally Posted by Jonnycbad View Post
All I'm going to say is, if they could ARR FFXIV 1.0, they could ARR FFXI. They did FFXIV ARR in 2 years, they could probably do FFXI 2.0 in 3 years (or rather announce it in 3 years, and then release it 2 years later).
The reason they could do ARR in 2 years from 1.0 is because most of the leg work was already done. Best of my understanding, ARR is a retooled version of 1.0, where as if you were to 'recreate' ffxi, youd need to rebuild almost all the game assets from scratch due to them being so dated. You likely wouldnt use FFXIVs engine either cause that engine is already beginning to have dating issues too. So youd probably move to a newer engine to prolong the lifespan of a reboot.