Please add little environmental touches to make the game feel more alive

This video of Vana'diel makes Eorzea look like a stagnant, lifeless rock...

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Originally Posted by miqokini

This video of Vana'diel makes Eorzea look like a stagnant, lifeless rock...

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The game certainly does lack alot an atmosphere... Lets hope it does get remedied in the future after all the serious stuff is out of the way.

Wonderful video, thank you for sharing! A flood of memories just rushed over me while I watched it.

I think Eorzea has a lot of potential to live up to Vana'diel, so i'm hoping the team gets to that as well. The setting is already beautiful, but it does need a bit more life to it to truly immerse us in this world of Eorzea.

The small butterfly at the end is just one of those small things that just adds a whole lot to showing a living, breathing world.

Supposedly, they are going to redesign the areas in the future. To what extent is anyone's guess but when they do I hope they add such little touches.

Things like tiny insects flying around bushes that are too hard to see unless your camera is close enough, fish jumping out of water, birds flying through the air, etc.

Oh please oh please oh please do this, Square Enix.

One thing I've noticed in every MMO I've played (wish I had played XI...), the world feels so dead. You don't see NPCs truly talking or anything. Sure, the occasional NPC will talk in some, but that's it.

What I'd love to see was shown in that video and more: Animals chasing each other, farm animals eating on grass or leaves, NPCs talking, little insects or something flying/walking around. Things that you would see if this world was real. Maybe even a couple enemies fighting each other for territory/food. The little things that you really don't see in MMOs.

I posted a whole thread about it a while back. They said they will add more life to Eorzea after more pressing updates. Hopefully, they kept all the ideas written there by so many players, it was a gold mine! :D

So, yes, we should see more "life", "alive" environment, "breathing" world, etc. eventually.

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Originally Posted by Nakiamiie

I posted a whole thread about it a while back. They said they will add more life to Eorzea after more pressing updates. Hopefully, they kept all the ideas written there by so many players, it was a gold mine! :D

So, yes, we should see more "life", "alive" environment, "breathing" world, etc. eventually.

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I really hope they stick to their word on this. As we all know, what SE says isn't always what SE does. :/

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Originally Posted by miqokini

I really hope they stick to their word on this. As we all know, what SE says isn't always what SE does. :/

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Either that, or they take 7 years too implement it, like a certain moogle in Selbina and Mhaura.

Great Vid !!
Thanks for sharing. The video couldn't have explained this issue better.

I completely agree. This is the biggest issue for most people, the environment is too dead, the areas are pretty boring and dull. They could be much more creative, have them much livelier. If this was done right, i think alot of the complaints about FFXIV wouldn't exist today because a beautiful world can make up for alot of the other downfalls of the game, atleast we'll be immersed by Eorzea.

Besides, whats an MMO without a stunning adventurous world? FFXI was a perfect example.. and with the resources and engine in use with FFXIV, im sure FFXIV has the potential to surpass. SE just needs to utilize it and set focus on this.

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YES.
Love Sigur Ros.

Eorzea isnt completely without an environment, but some of it is soo damn subtle its extremely hard to miss, like the owls in the trees around or the frogs sitting on rocks in ther viers around the black shroud, i havent seen the owls first hand myself but have witnessed them in screenshots. I have witnessed a frog on one of the rocks in the black shround however, but like i said, it was soo very extremely subtle.

Still so much they could be doing with the environment and atmosphere however, i often wander the coasts around La Noscea in plain view of Limsa, however i never see a single ship on the horizon heading towards there, so much for it being a pirate town, i could just imagine seeing galleons and such sailing in the distance and gulls in the air etc... Definately alot they could add in the future for sure.

That video makes me realize how much i loved my time in Vanadiel. It truly was a great place to explore.
That said, im playing FFXIV now and very much hope to be playing it for years. I really hope that when i quit and move on to another mmo in a decade or so that i can look back on Eorzea with the same fondness.

Some of those sights really bring back memories. Im hoping to make the same ones here

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Originally Posted by Leenk

That video makes me realize how much i loved my time in Vanadiel. It truly was a great place to explore.
That said, im playing FFXIV now and very much hope to be playing it for years. I really hope that when i quit and move on to another mmo in a decade or so that i can look back on Eorzea with the same fondness.

Some of those sights really bring back memories. Im hoping to make the same ones here

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Well said my friend. I hope so too that Eorzea can oneday give us memories as good as the ones XI gave me.

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Originally Posted by Rimmer

Well said my friend. I hope so too that Eorzea can oneday give us memories as good as the ones XI gave me.

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True that.. Vanadiel was too amazing of an experience for all who played XI. I hope Eorzea will even surpass it, keeping hopes high! =)

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Originally Posted by Nakiamiie

I posted a whole thread about it a while back. They said they will add more life to Eorzea after more pressing updates. Hopefully, they kept all the ideas written there by so many players, it was a gold mine! :D

So, yes, we should see more "life", "alive" environment, "breathing" world, etc. eventually.

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Yeah, i think we should post more ideas in there:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ture-of-Eorzea