Quote Originally Posted by Enkidoh View Post
This is a myth that simply is not true - ARR uses a custom-made engine based on elements of the engine used in FFXV (Luminous Engine), it's not simply a 'reuse' of Crystal Tools (1.0's engine).
Yep - as the citation you provided, and an earlier article from Oct 2011 (Oct 2011 Gamerescape Interview) indicate, they had developers who had worked on the Luminous Engine also working on their custom one (which is why Yoshi-P calls it a "sister engine" of sorts), which at some point gave rise to the misconception that it was the Luminous Engine adapted to work with an MMO.

I'd imagine that a similar misconception about what was saved/brought over from 1.0 that isn't part of the game engine led to the belief that they had reworked Crystal Tools into what we have now.