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Needed to make XIV-2 as XIV is simply unsalvageable in it's current state from a net code, system code, security code, and story / characters standpoint since EW was a Swan Song moment.

I need you to think about that moment when they came out on stage and announced another 10 years of XIV. Now imagine this ominous possibility, that you'll be queuing up for Frontline Roulettes in 2030.

A lot of 1.0 is floating around in 2.0 and up. That's 2007-2010 code and assets designed for PStripples and 360s. The re-release with 2.0 still put it out into the world with worst in genre foundational netcode/systemcode/security and that hasn't changed for over a decade because it can't, an expansion cannot fix these problems.
Yoshida himself fully acknowledges they have systems in the game they can't work with because the people who made them are long gone and trying to reverse engineer it isn't working. You can easily see this in the Fate system, anyone who's played Occult Crescent will know exactly why it's a buckbroken system.

Even if they magic up a decent story for 8.0 that still leaves the rest of the game busted.

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