Allow me the spill ARR's dirty little secret: the real reason FFXIV was rebuilt was because 1.x was complete incapable of running on the PS3, which was vital to salvaging the game. It would have been much easier to optimize the existing game client (both graphically and network-wise) and just build a new server infrastructure, but even at minimum settings it would have given the PS3 a seizure.

I really wish they had done the latter. The graphics in 1.x were better by an order of magnitude.