This port came about at the same time as SE’s highly immoral (and very dubious legally) UK CE pricing saga.

Whomever was calling the financial shots at this stage didn’t care about who they trod on in the process, nor did they particularly care about the quality of the product that they put out either it seems.

I absolutely agree with the OP. FFXI didn’t charge a license fee per platform, neither does WoW. It’s also painful to note that whilst being entirely free, WoW’s Mac client is on a whole different level to the rubbish SE commisioned.

It either needs to be free, or it needs to be a native app running on Metal. Yoshida had the right idea when he first had it pulled and refunded. As is, we’re paying for a cakethat’s never materialised.