I think this would be a better topic for FFXI forum, wouldn't you agree? At least over there you will get much more support because there are some of us here who want a new, fresh experience. Plus the development team and Yoshi is gonna be pretty busy for another year on FFXIV.

As far as FFXI-HD I wouldn't mind seeing that. But I doubt SE will be able to recover the cost of development from it for a lonnng time. FFXI is currently a niche MMO right now. Before server subs number was as high as 500k, even more. Right now I'm betting it doesn't hit the 200k mark (yes I did pull that out of my ass, I would love some real data if they exist.) That's not a bad number by far considering the age of the game. It'll just be hard to convince SE to re-make the game for that subs number, generating profit at that rate will take awhile.