Quote Originally Posted by darkstarpoet1 View Post
poor knowledge of the system? you realize 3 of the 5 years spent on this game was BUILDING this system correct?

the team had to build the system for the game before the first line of code was done on the game. that left around 2 years to completely build this game. that includes the world, gear, spells, lore, npc's, mobs, battle system, leves, animations, and everything else you see. they did not spend 5 years building all of this.
Crystal tools was created back in 2006, it was named White Engine back then. Development for FFXIV started after crystal tools was completed around the same time. FFXIV has been in development for 5 years.