How about Cloth Physicks?

[Culfinrandir]

Again, false information. I just said the game has not been in development for ten years
Versus XIII and XV are two COMPLETELY different games. People need to stop this meme.

YOU clearly didn't read my post either - if you had you'd see that XV is based on Luminous Studio from 2012. Yes, there was an update from the original Versus XIII engine (Crystal Tools from 2005) but it's STILL a 5 year old game. Undoubtedly there'll still be some ideas or models that originated in Crystal Tools which have been ported to Luminous Studio because that's how it was designed.

There's nothing false in that whatsoever. XV *is* using resources *at least* 5 years old.

[Culfinrandir]

Probably due to contract that was made before SE even considered making a PS4 release. Maybe they didn't expect it will go so well.
But when i read about new features, and there was HBAO+ i was kind of surprised.
Quess they starts to think about serious graphical improvments over next expansion.

Thou indeed Cloth Physics may not be included, until Yoshi will clearly state, that next expansion won't cover PS3.

Cloth Physics is also part of GameWorks & could easily be toggled to ensure it only operates on high end systems. The real limitations of FFXIV is that the developers chose, after the failure of 1.0, to always cater to the lowest possible denominator. The result is that a huge amount of advancements made since release are ignored.

As a side note, I disabled HBAO entirely on my AMD system & found an improvement in both graphical quality & framerate along with it making the game more stable.