Quote Originally Posted by Squintina View Post
your post
You are right.
Still, I've been there (starting from HPC background), and I've seen others been there and I've never seen anybody get it wrong. You need to completely disregard the hardware having physical limits in order to get this particular detail wrong, but if there is an industry that deeply think about (cores and caches) physical limitations it is the gaming industry.
Probably it was the work of someone new and they were not really doing a good job with code reviews.

Regarding the full replacement of the legacy code, I have to agree with others: between spending a year or two rewriting it, it is more cost effective to spend such time to develop new content to retain your current playerbase. They would otherwise be developing what could be rebranded as FFXVI (or FFXVII or whatever number they'd be at by the time they are done with).