Time, Budget, Manpower, and Scope

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Originally Posted by plasmacutter

The graphics improvements are great and very noticeable in terms of poly count.
The lighting engine and texture overhaul are considerably better.

The game still needs settings for contrast, local contrast, saturation, and bloom, all of which are relatively cheap computationally.

As a 4k gamer on the best hardware, I'd have loved more, but there are other ways to compensate.

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the things i would give to entirely disable bloom...

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Originally Posted by theunhappypotato

the graphics updaate was a mistake and i'll die on this hill

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Am with you. Graphical "improvement" made a lot of bad things with our characters. A lot of faces got ruined, eyebrows missing or badly made. A lot of weird scaling that look like its done with AI cheapest thing. So many faces have awkward smiles now or even eyes are acting super weird. Just take a look at Hyur 1 face. Stupid eye bags ARE STILL NOT REMOVED. They just made them "less visible" but are still there. Why no other face has these eye bags? Why face 1 has such stupid smile that makes your eyes look super thiny now. What's the point of this?

So much of improvement.

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Originally Posted by Themarvin

increase the price of the subscription... it is like how prices was 25 years ago, with inflation and everything... it should add up.

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"Surely this will make devs actually care for us! right?!" lmao, it doesn't matter when all that money goes to other projects. They are already earning more than enough from their stupid cash shop where they milk players daily.

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Originally Posted by Larirawiel

These "challenges" are not real challenges but self inflicted problems caused by a completely incompetent management. All problems which FF14 has are solvable with more money. If they do not have enough money then because the management threw it out of the window. Nobody wanted a game like Forspoken, which cost them over 75 millions USD. Then there are very questionable decisions, they made for FF14. Why is this game still based on DirectX 11? Microsoft discontinued this API in January 2013(!) and talked openly about it. They knew, that this API is dead and they did nothing. And you can assume, that the rest of the FF14 infrastructure is equally outdated. And now they complain, that they do not find any game developers for such an ancient sh*t? Seriously?

They will have to invest a serious amount of ressources into the game, otherwise the competition will eat them up. The technical residue is huge compared to other games.


Cheers

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Unfortunately SE is a second-rate developer that cannot actually attract talent in 2025.

I have a nagging feeling I've seen you somewhere. Are you that annoying troll with an endless amount of alt accounts with almost all of them being the same-looking Highlander?