They said there were no towns because it would have been hard to work it into HD or whatever.

They did not state that the reason there are no humans left in the playable areas of Pulse was because it would have been hard to work it into HD.
They did not state that the reason that the towns were all in ruins was because it would have been hard to work it into HD.

I can understand people using the quotes by developers to point out that traditional towns were avoided for the sake of graphics, but if people are going to start saying that the entire story was changed and giving our fellow users misinformation because they're still pissy about not liking the game then they are heading towards being banned from this forum. I'm sick of every damned thread turning into a discussion about tha damned quote.