hypothetical question: what would it take to update an entire game engine?

[LilimoLimomo]

I'm not sure what you mean when you ask "what would it take?" Broadly speaking, time and money are the only limiting factors...but you've said that neither time nor money is an issue, suggesting that in this hypothetical there is a limitless supply of both.

There's nothing else you need at that point; with infinite time and infinite money, there's very little that you can't achieve.

[Larirawiel]

Heya,

the Lotro-devs wanted to upgrade the graphics of their game and this would cost them ~30 millions USD. So they abandoned it because for 30.000.000 USD you would get a new game. I guess, upgrading the FF14 engine would be equally expensive.

The second thing is, you do not need an upgrade of the FF14 engine. The not so great graphics is not an engine issue, it is a content issue.


Cheers