There are a lot of threads requesting adjustments to animations, visuals, character butt models, as well as additions to classes, races, clothing, weapons, etc. I'd like to point out that there are many threads focused on quality gameplay and overall enhancement of the game's systems and performance.
I hope that the community does not focus too much on additional content and visuals and forget about quality gameplay. If you have or agree with a thread that focuses on quality performance and gameplay, please feel free to link it here or discuss what quality gameplay means to you.
I'd personally like to see the below threads get acknowledgement from the devs, it seems the community has already acknowledged it quite a bit w/ over 160+ pages total, but has been ignored by SE:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ev-Response%29
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-fix-something.
Quality > Quantity
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11-03-2013, 12:47 AMKnosisQuality > Quantity
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11-03-2013, 12:52 AMTupsi
I was just about to post in the other topic: "I guarantee this person makes this a new topic...' and here we are. The reason SE "ignores it" is because it's not affecting EVERYONE, which means there's other variables than: "It's SE's fault."
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11-03-2013, 01:06 AMKnosisIt's a generalized topic. I posted an example that I care about.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tupsi
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11-03-2013, 01:12 AMGarnatian
I don't get it, they can't fix those issues.
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11-03-2013, 01:30 AMAmberionSure they can. If other game developers can, I'm sure SE can also.Quote:
Originally Posted by Garnatian
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11-03-2013, 01:33 AMSixmpWhat are they fixing? Just because lots of people get lag in a game doesn't mean it is the game makers fault. I mean think about it. If it was something wrong with the game then wouldn't it effect everyone?Quote:
Originally Posted by Amberion
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11-03-2013, 01:36 AMTupsiThe typical counter-argument to this is: "You're naive if you think an issue has to affect everyone in order for it to be a problem with the game." - Yes people legitimately counter what you say with that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sixmp
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11-03-2013, 01:42 AMAmberionThe 0.3s positioning updating on the server for one. It was 0.5s in the beta, got lowered because of the issues with people not able to get out of skills. They just reduced the problem, but not enough. Heck, they can make the client handle a tiny bit more.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sixmp
And it is effecting everyone. Run and cast a spell, does it cancel fast? People can actually cast 1 sec skills on the run without being interrupted. And that is with a ping in the 100ms.
EDIT: BTW, I don't have the problem on Titan and things like that. But it still effect me when trying to cancel casts, and other such things. -
11-03-2013, 01:45 AMSixmpGames with problems with netcode does usually effect all or none though. As lag can be caused by so many factors i find it cringe worthy that so many people jump straight at SE shouting "FIX IT"Quote:
Originally Posted by Tupsi
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11-03-2013, 01:54 AMSixmpOh i see the problem now. People running about screaming lag was just making me thing people were suffering from high pings :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Amberion
Just to add, i started casting a spell and cancelled it. almost instantly. I am in the UK i would guess my ping is probably around the 80-110 mark -
11-03-2013, 01:54 AMLithera
There's been a dev response of a sort just not in the threads. There's a reason that ISP post got stickied. Yoshi-P acknowledged the lag in the Live Letter and asked that players continue to submit their ISP and system information as they are actively searching for solutions. You want a dev to come on the forums every day and reassure people that it's being worked on? Pat your head and say "There...There.."? I'd rather they focus on the problem as opposed to writing personalized "Im sorry" letters it seems everyone wants.
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11-03-2013, 02:03 AMShioban
The developers had to balance their time, as a set-release window of at least two years and a new Americanised Development Schedule was implemented to make sure that with the 2.0 revisions, shit actually got done instead of leaving them to fuss over details like a main characters eye colour for 6 hours (this actually happened).
There are two obvious reasons for this;
Development Efficiency.
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Average Market.
Development Efficieny, is obvious as you spend more time on finite details, the better the outcome, but the more time you've wasted getting that tree looking just right.
To pierce the Average Market things such as reducing the amount of objects on-screen, compressing textures, zoning off areas were all part of the initial design decisions for FFXIV:ARR, in that the game NEEDED to run for the average PC market (as well as the PS3), to do this compromises were made across all things.
Everything you have seen can be changed (to an extent) in the future (DX11 update will be pushing a lot of new features and better textures in).
Theoretically if PS3 support drops in the future, any further developments on the game could be substantially bigger, in that we could see bigger, grander and more detailed areas than we already have in-game, (possibly some new battle system (Fate-esque).