Quote Originally Posted by Loony BoB View Post
To be fair, every game these days uses some kind of ATB. If you think about it, an FPS has a certain action time for each thing you do, as does a fighter game such as Street Fighter - and, much like most FF's, in fighter games some fighters are faster to do certain actions than others. I'm sure that with that in mind, whatever we get in the future, it will have some kind of ATB involved. Big spells will always take longer, each character will always have a speed stat, etc.
It sounds like you're saying that ATB was invented before ATB was invented.