@Malakhim

See it like this: they have FFXI, a now old game, that made them lots of money and had lots of player enjoying it. Most of the current players are FFXI players. The current game is being disliked.

It is an obvious choice to make it more familiar to FFXI players to quickly gather a solid player base.

What i believe is that it is necessary to get back the immersive atmosphere and uniqueness of FFXI, surely not to regress the current engine and gameplay to a 10 years old one.