Can we get an actual intuitive and modern glam system please?

[Fawkes]

The game engine for ARR is the V1.0 engine, and that re-write would be an entire new game engine. Its the literal frame work of the game. Comparing it to what Blizzard did with WoW ignores how utter trash v1.0 of the game was.

1.0 used the Crystal Tools engine, ARR uses an engine derived from the Luminous engine.

They are different games and the idea that there's still leftover 1.0 code lurking inside and causing mischief is simply not true.

[dapperfaffer]

1.0 used the Crystal Tools engine, ARR uses an engine derived from the Luminous engine.

They are different games and the idea that there's still leftover 1.0 code lurking inside and causing mischief is simply not true.

Spaghetti code infestation. The Ebony Engine which is what ARR uses is a combination of both Crystal and Luminous, iirc. The only pure Luminous engine wa FFXV, iirc.

At Electronic Entertainment Expo 2012, Square Enix debuted "Agni's Philosophy", a tech demo for their new Luminous Studio game engine. Though members of the Final Fantasy XIV development team worked on Luminous, Yoshida admitted that both Luminous and Crystal Tools were optimized for offline games and could not handle an online environment with hundreds of on-screen character models.[39] Though Version 2.0 uses a "completely different engine", he called the Luminous engine and the 2.0 engine "siblings" due to similarities in their structure.[55] In July 2012, Square Enix revealed that Version 2.0's official title would be Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn.[56] As development for A Realm Reborn ramped up, Yoshida made the decision to shut down the servers for the original release on November 11, 2012.[57] This date served as the "grand finale" for the old game, culminating in a cinematic trailer for A Realm Reborn called "End of an Era"

edit: Which to add doesn't take away or add to the discussion. At the end of the day FFXIV would need a newer engine in order to do the more modern things. IMO, I think Yoshida is secretly creating a newer engine that the game will shift over to, which is why the future of FFXIV seem ominous with what may or may not be added in the future.