How good is the game engine of FFXIV?

[Dyvid]

Okay, I think you are still confusing cutscene using in game assets opposed to fully rendered cutscenes by themselves.

Take a look at FFXV Cutscene, note that some scene look better render than others. That's because SE used pains taken animated techniques those scenes to provide greater depth.

FFXIV uses mostly in game assets to do it cut scene because it requires less time for animating scene and allow them to focus on more important matters. As for the actually game it self, the devs have to consider optimize graphics rather than to focus on the high end builds. This is where the problems of 1.0 came into play, focusing solely on high end computers graphics to the point it ruined their game. Now if SE chose to drop console support (bad idea by the way) then yes they could improve polygon counts and make the game look even better than it does. But you also alienate your consumer base.