Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[grinkdaboy]

Because it's a loss of control. Japanese companies tend to be more conservative in how they operate so if a project is important enough they'd want to keep things in house. I work for an American branch of a international Japanese company who, at one point, made the decision to let another company make an core part of one of our products that we normally would make and it lead to one of the largest service advisories we've had. If FFXIV is a substantial money maker for them then I can't image that they'd let any outside variable work on it.

if it's just a matter of re-creating textures at a higher resolution then you're going to have to really sell it to me on how they could possibly screw something so simple like that