Quote Originally Posted by Lexia View Post
Well take a look at another MMO SE created, FFXI and you can see how they will treat XIV in the future of graphics, that game never got a visual update.
That not a fair argument. They purposefully locked it to the PS2 well past that consoles life time because it was made for the PS2 and "ported" to PC a year or two laiter. Everything "graphic" wise was limited by that. They only announced last summer they were finally shutting it down except for the PC. Right now the entire game can be overhauled and have its entire engine finally updated. The user base is no longer there and they are only making enough money off the legacy players to keep it in maintenance mode until they get bored and move on. Basically its an eternal PS2 title, great at its time but a complete fluke that it even succeeded at all.


Aside from the failed launch, they already showed enough common sense to not repeat XI's mistakes for a better long term lifespan. Otherwise players could not migrate from the PS2# to PS4, and eventually PS4 will reach its max. If the game is still running then, they may have a migration from Ps4 to Ps5. While PC users need to upgrade hardware. If anything a playable game is more important than a pretty one. They will likely HQ the fonts, skins and textures back up when the time is right.