Quote Originally Posted by Elexia View Post
Anyone with game development knowledge would know the the past decade development cost and time has nearly tripled and that it's pretty common for things to take awhile to get released as well as a company pulling departments together to push out something.
Development cost and time have nothing to do with it. The kind of professional figures required to develop a MMORPG and a single player action RPG are only partly overlapping. The idea that the whole FFvXIII team has been put to work on a MMORPG is ludicrous, because besides a few exceptions the only ones that would be able to transition seamlessly to the new game would be artists, sound designers, writers and the like.

The FFXIV team was never short on those, and it's ludicrous to argue that Square Enix just put everyone else in a limbo waiting for the project to resume.

Something of that scope would have reached the Japanese press (that has very strong contacts at SE) way before it reached a random pole on twitter.