How about some major server fixes before charging?

content is kind of meaningless since it will mostly be wiped, sure your incentive to pay is story that will no longer be available with the new version.
I got a nearly top of the line machine and it can take 5 minutes for people to pop infront of me standing still. I am supposed to pay a whole year for that? why so i can read more drivel from main story npcs that are only saying these things to cover the tracks of a broken game in transition. I would love to pay for the game, but not on these servers, I will be back though [=

Part of the problem SE has is they don't have any group files in any type of paks so FFXIV will try to load a whole bunch of little tiny files in many folders which is a lot of search time on the hard drive. If you have an SSD its much less noticeable but having a better file system is a basic part of PC game optimization and SE should really fix this.

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Originally Posted by Zumi

Part of the problem SE has is they don't have any group files in any type of paks so FFXIV will try to load a whole bunch of little tiny files in many folders which is a lot of search time on the hard drive. If you have an SSD its much less noticeable but having a better file system is a basic part of PC game optimization and SE should really fix this.

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That's because most MMOs generally run on engines (generally unreal) which pack all files, but it's also why XI and XIV were one of the easiest MMOs to modify armor and etc. So it's not actually a problem perse, the main problem is game optimization and server optimization, not the file structure because games that don't pack files still run very smoothly as they're well optimized.

Still there really is no excuse especially for a new game for not having file packs to speed up load times. Going into a busy city and have your game shutter and drop to a low frame rate while a bunch of files are loading from the HDD isn't fun.