The PS3 killed FFXIV

as far as OP goes, i think he has the wrong idea of console gamers... sure maybe a majority of console gamers login for a bit, but console gamers that play MMO's have the same mentality as pc gamers that play MMO's. ppl that play MMO's play MMO's the way they would normally play whether they are on console or pc. and let's hope that they can appease console gamers and casual players, cus that's where the numbers are. get a good casual game going, make more complicated later.

The idea that console and PC gaming are mutually exclusive is idiotic. It's about as logical as saying that enjoying coffee precludes enjoying tea.

If you feel the need to spout this kind of bile, think twice and crawl back under your rock.

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Originally Posted by Fear

I keep hearing people say the game is poorly optimized, just how much more performance could be had with this game if it was optimized better? and would the UI lag be reduced?

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The UI lag wouldn't exist.

The frame-rate wouldn't drop sharply on computers like mine whenever they get too close to plants

The textures wouldn't 'bubble' into detail as they do

Chasing fleeing enemies would allow you to hit them when you ARE in range instead of having to run ahead of them

Loading times between area transitions would be reduced

Players in cities wouldn't have an 'appearance range' of 20m, more like 200m

You wouldn't have to stand around at the leve counter for 2 minutes waiting for the local leve NPC to spawn because for some reason the engine needs to load the other 30 people inside the adventurers guild first

Objects looked at from a great distance wouldn't look like a map of the first level of super Mario Bros.

Your character wouldn't become invisible for 10 seconds whenever you swap any piece of equipment or gear

The list goes on...

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Originally Posted by Konachibi

The UI lag wouldn't exist.

The frame-rate wouldn't drop sharply on computers like mine whenever they get too close to plants

The textures wouldn't 'bubble' into detail as they do

Chasing fleeing enemies would allow you to hit them when you ARE in range instead of having to run ahead of them

Loading times between area transitions would be reduced

Players in cities wouldn't have an 'appearance range' of 20m, more like 200m

You wouldn't have to stand around at the leve counter for 2 minutes waiting for the local leve NPC to spawn because for some reason the engine needs to load the other 30 people inside the adventurers guild first

Objects looked at from a great distance wouldn't look like a map of the first level of super Mario Bros.

Your character wouldn't become invisible for 10 seconds whenever you swap any piece of equipment or gear

The list goes on...

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Drawing distance increase... yes please!

I like your sig Bled ;)

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Originally Posted by Bled

Drawing distance increase... yes please!

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Oh yeah and this would be nice too.

Would stop all those times: "Where are you, my mini-map says you're right infront of me about 50 metres away and we're inside a straight tunnel but I can't see you." *inch a few metres forward and PING!* "Oh... there you are"

Unlimited drawing distance + no stupid background drawing (instead same way the foreground is being drawn) would be nice. Oh and tesselation to manage polygon count on character models :D
But I guess there will never ever be tesselation as the PS3 doesn't support it at all... someone give the devs a 360! >.<

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Originally Posted by Coldfire

Unlimited drawing distance + no stupid background drawing (instead same way the foreground is being drawn) would be nice. Oh and tesselation to manage polygon count on character models :D
But I guess there will never ever be tesselation as the PS3 doesn't support it at all... someone give the devs a 360! >.<

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S.E asked Microsoft about putting FFXIV onto 360. Turns out Microsoft want Xbox Live to be a self-contained thing so they won't allow it to link to none-xboxy things anymore (I say anymore because there were a couple of games in the past that allowed xbox players to play with PC players).

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Originally Posted by Konachibi

S.E asked Microsoft about putting FFXIV onto 360. Turns out Microsoft want Xbox Live to be a self-contained thing so they won't allow it to link to none-xboxy things anymore (I say anymore because there were a couple of games in the past that allowed xbox players to play with PC players).

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Yeah, bad decision by M$. They will most likely change that again though as it is plain stupid and the community hates them for such stuff. Btw I never said anything about xbox! I obviously meant a roundhouse kick!

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Originally Posted by Konachibi

S.E asked Microsoft about putting FFXIV onto 360. Turns out Microsoft want Xbox Live to be a self-contained thing so they won't allow it to link to none-xboxy things anymore (I say anymore because there were a couple of games in the past that allowed xbox players to play with PC players).

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Ok not that I'm doubting that, but isn't FFXI available for the XBOX 360? How does that work out for them?