Quote Originally Posted by Mizar View Post
Must be why 1.0 was a smash hit!

So smashing that it almost crumbled Square-Enix.
Indeed, like Spirits Within.....

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Yeah let's not go there - FFXI was pretty much their largest income for numerous years, even during XIV, so nothing "almost crumbled" SE besides when they initially wanted to bring FFXI out west and no one would help them setup datacenters for it, which was part of the reason they merged with Enix.

Design wise, absolutely nothing was wrong with 1.x - The issue came with the foundation, if 1.x was built on the new engine they wouldn't have restructured it so much unless they still wanted to grab the theme park patrons.