Whey they stopped adding holes for Miqo'te hats? :eek:

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They just have to replace the texture files, which are flat images... And to that, I suppose they must own the "original" images?

Hahaha don't count on it. SQEX is notorious for losing their own material.
Hell, they've completely lost their master copies of Kingdom Hearts 1, basically every Final Fantasy game up to 10, as well as many of the spinoffs like Tactics, as well as many other titles that they've not admitted to yet.
This is also why they had to rerecord the soundtrack for the new Nier Replicant.

I don't know if they have or haven't lost old textures yet, but I wouldn't hold my breath.

Honestly, I’m not really surprised. Square has been cutting a lot of corners for this game milking FFXIV for capital, obviously using the earnings to fund other projects. Even Blizzard does the same thing, I just wish they invested a bit more capital to improving my favorite game. But, I’m obviously biased.

Right?
I guess with that Avenger game having flopped so hard they must be pretty tight right now...
And right on the heels of FF15 losing them 33 million... (and didn't that cause them to file for bankruptcy?)
And then they lost a few billion (I've heard anywhere from 2-5) when they closed down Shinra Technologies in the UK.
And they lost about 12 billion in that earthquake some years back.
Their Tokyo RPG Factory studio was shut down after losing them hundreds of thousands (though I hear they've since reopened it?)
I guess it's all really starting to pile up.
And all this on top of their CEO having to step down in 2013 just because their games were so unprofitable. They lost about 16 billion from "slow sales."

As much as we may think FF14 deserves more... I don't know how much more SQEX is able to put into it lol.
SQEX has flirted with the rumors of being bought out a couples of times, and the company has almost completely gone under at least twice now. Sometimes it seems like their mobile games and MMOs are all that's keeping them afloat.