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[Kanjitai]

wouldn't it be cool if they redid the graphics of XI to look like the new combo pack art? I like to dream. Maybe one day.

http://www.finalfantasyxi.com/

[svengalis]

I wish the game looked like civil.

[svengalis]

I wish the game looked like xiv .

Corrected that last part.

[Kanjitai]

I think at this point it make more sense to can 14 and invest in 11. graphic upgrade is just one of many things that could be done to 11 to help it get more people. imagine 11 story with WoW accessibility. I think that would be awesome

[sruon]

would make more sense to can both and make a real MMORPG.

[Miiyo]

The game would immediately die due to the fact 70% of the server won't have the pc to handle it. Can we delete this thread?

[RAIST]

The game would immediately die due to the fact 70% of the server won't have the pc to handle it. Can we delete this thread?

what? The core of my system (C2D E8400 and ATI 4850) are 3 years old (if not older) technology and played 14 just fine. Wouldn't need to go full hog with a DX10/11 update for FFXI (which is not what happened with 14, btw--still dx9 as it runs on XP also). Just a true DX8.1 (or better, DX9) upgrade would be a major leap forward.

[Kanjitai]

I don't want them to go overboard with a graphics overhaul. if they did their research and found out what PC hardware the customers they had were using they could come up with something. I know it's somewhere in one of the agreements that says we players are responsible for keeping our systems up to date so we can play. so any excuse like "but if they do a graphic update I won't be able to play" is kind of dumb. I got a new laptop to play 14.

If people want to play enough they will adjust. again I think this is just one thing that SE can do to make the game more appealing to more people. maybe even new customers. i know it's an older game but you don't here "this hospital is 8 years old and outdated let's rip it down and spend 5 mil to build a new one when it would cost 1 mil to update the old one" my point is it's an old game but if it went to PC and xbox only or just PC only they could make a new exp and that with other changes plus a remarket could bring in new people and people who left.

[svengalis]

would make more sense to can both and make a real MMORPG.

I just wish they canned the ps2 version so that they are not any limitations to the game like inventory space and the current chat system/invite system.

[svengalis]

The game would immediately die due to the fact 70% of the server won't have the pc to handle it. Can we delete this thread?

Any decent laptop with intergrated graphics these days will run this game perfectly fine. Any computer from the past 5 years should run this game.

[Kanjitai]

there is a risk involved in reworking XI. XIV was rushed and look at what happened. They are coming out with a test server for us players. They could use that server to test radical changes like graphics, new quest mechanics, etc.

[Jem]

I don't think FFXI needs FFXIV's graphic because anyone who has played FFXIV knows the game doesn't run as smoothly as FFXI in many ways. Though I could see FFXI getting an HD make over that would look exactly like this:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9e/Final_Fantasy_XIV_concept_render.jpg

In an Interview with Tanaka he said that the tech demo codenamed "Rapture" (that ended up becoming FFXIV using the crystal tools engine) was the product of him asking the devs to make an "HD FFXI" so that is exactly what this 2005 screen shot is.

I find it similar to the new 3DS remake of Ocarina of Time, redux models/textures and areas with "more stuff".

[Miiyo]

Any decent laptop with intergrated graphics these days will run this game perfectly fine. Any computer from the past 5 years should run this game.

i was referring to if it looked like ffxiv.

[Zyeriis]

The game would immediately die due to the fact 70% of the server won't have the pc to handle it. Can we delete this thread?
http://sadpanda.us/images/436435-O1ML185.jpg

[svengalis]

i was referring to if it looked like ffxiv.
Well it doesn't have to be as demanding as xiv, just something similar with how blizzard did wow.

[Romanova]

I like what EQ/EQII did with their graphical updates. They insanely overhauled the graphics to the point that even super computers will have a hard time playing EQII with everything turned all the way up.

BUT, they made ever last bit of those tweakable to make sure that any computer can run them if you turn the graphics down enough (and the low graphics aren't worse than the originals). It's very easy for you to alter ever last bit of it until it's maximized for your particular computer.

However I doubt that's possible with the lolps2.