Thank you for the responses. I tend to agree that the problem with XI was there was never a PS3 version of the game (to my knowledge there was a hack to get it to work on the PS3... but for all intents and purposes it was still a PS2 game). I guess, I just don't want to see them hold back a feature or capability because they are forced to support hardware that is aging very quickly. With the PS4 and XBOne coming out PC baselines are going to shift. Currently you can still find a large majority of games out there that say minimum requirements of an 8800GTX and a P4 CPU... which is pretty much what the consoles have in them. That baseline is about to shift toward a 580GTX which is a graphical leap of about 4 years, and it might even be pushing closer to the 680GTX. I just don't want this amazing game to be stuck in 2006.

Maybe I am worried about nothing, looking back over other long time games, they have been able to greatly expand the games will still providing support for older hardware (both wow and FFXI are huge examples of this) I guess it would just come down to what they will allow people with good systems to be able to do.