Quote Originally Posted by Icarus View Post
I was merely countering your comment that "rendering cs takes too long" which is out of touch with real-time rendering. It's in Square's best interests to not pre-render unless they're making a "The Spirits Within" mini-film.
FF is known for it's pre-rendered cutscenes in the later generation games, so it would be in their best interest to continue this trend if Final Fantasy XIV is to be "Final Fantasy", especially for storyline missions, which is why they developed the Crystal Tools engine, mainly for cinematics.