Is most of FFXIV's failings due to their choice of engine?

[Ilean]

Now find some games that were not DX8, that were not ported almost 10 years after release for the only sake of optimization.

Check out benchmarks of bioshock or crysis in dx9 vs dx10 performance and you'll understand what I mean.

It's not that I don't want DX11, just that the idea that replacing DX9 calls with DX11 calls will boost performance by 30% is retarded, if you are gonna be asking for DX11 at least be aware that it would take a huge amount of work for the engine team.

They could optimize the current DX9 engine to acceptable levels for a small fraction of that effort.

So you found benchmarks that test highest settings on DX9 against (different) highest settings on DX11? That would be why you don't see any difference. I'm not talking about adding the new performance costly features.

Try looking at a 1:1 port to DX11 http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...ce,2793-7.html