Quote Originally Posted by fredtma View Post
it takes at least 3 years to build a block buster MMO, I cannot see SE do it in one. even if it is an upgrade, all I foresee is one big path
It depends on alot of things, SE have a large team working on 2.0, and the 2.0 client is supposed to be alot more dev friendly than the 1.xx client.

Also that 3 years is what it made to build the vanila FFXIV with all its flaws. and SE have been working on it for about 1.5 years now and alot of content will just be ported over which takes no time (they can just push the existing 1.xx code through an algorithm and make the changes automatically to make it compatible.)