Will 7.0 upgrade or chage the engine of the game?

My friends told me that the next expansion (7.0), the game will receive a new engine and upgrading graphic of the game.
I know they're developing on the better graphic, but about the new engine, I don't know. Are they planing on change the engine like WoW?

No.

A new engine is a HUGE ( and horribly expensive ) undertaking, this is a graphical update.

new engine basically making a whole new game. it cost a lot of money and time. and SE dont like that.

Yeah, SE is too strapped for cash buying up more monkey jpegs for future NFT gaming campaigns to update the whole engine for XIV.
But at least you'll get nicer grass.

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Originally Posted by MintnHoney

Yeah, SE is too strapped for cash buying up more monkey jpegs for future NFT gaming campaigns to update the whole engine for XIV.
But at least you'll get nicer grass.

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Also won't somebody please for the love of god think of the poor shareholders?

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Originally Posted by PeaTearGriffin

Also won't somebody please for the love of god think of the poor shareholders?

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when people make comments like this, i always hope their 401k's and IRA's get zeroed out. then i wonder if they will think "why didnt someone think of the poor shareholders?"

The texture quality won't be brutally bad any more, and there will be an increase to the number of objects placed in zones so they can dress them up a bit. Updated spec only for the new expansion areas, and however many old areas they have time for, then the rest of them updated gradually over time in batches. Same engine but it's ok, some of us are just happy to have any visual improvement at all after waiting a decade.

Changing the engine basically means doing a whole new game.

Not gonna happen.

Hard to say so far. They want to upgrade the graphics but in what form we don't know. They clearly stay in the same engine. So all I expect is better textures.

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Originally Posted by PeaTearGriffin

Also won't somebody please for the love of god think of the poor shareholders?

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Yes... please think of me... I've had shares in Squaresoft and Enix before the merger... >.>

Engine is basically the heart or core of the game. While possible to upgrade it will either result in having to remake all associated assets along with the engine which as ppl said will basically be making a new game. Or Upgrading the existing engine itself keeping compatibility with existing assets which will normally severely limit what you can do in regards to upgrading it. FFXIV also has another issue however often referred to as spaghetti code where code as changed a bit at certain points resulting in layers that rely on the current engine to keep from unraveling.

They don't need a new engine. Have you seen how XVI looks? They're using the same engine. All XIV needs is the upgrade that they're giving the game, considering also that's an MMO and that the needs of the game are a bit different.

From what I have read and heard from friends the game engine is a maxed out. They already changed the engine once from 1.0 to what they use now. All they need to do is upgrade the engine to new version to fix the problems. Most the money SE makes is from subscriptions here.

I wonder how costly it would be for them to actually have the game be more responsive. It doesn't come up as issue in most PvE situations considering how the fights are designed in fairly static way, but it's pretty janky in PvP where at times you can have Guard up for 2 whole seconds and still get hit by unmitigated stuff among other things.

I even doubt, that they will make bigger updates of the engine with 7.x. The engine is already capable to render better graphics. I guess, they will improve the character models and textures.


Cheers

It will probably be 8.0 or beyond if they every do anything major with the engine.

It would be safer to see where the game is going before committing to doing something that expensive and probably would herald the end of support for the ps4.

There is no reason to change the game engine, the word is kinda misunderstood.
It is more akin ... to how you would understand the word "language".
Would you personally change what language you use in your daily life or at work if someone had a "better language"?
Funny how that later sometimes happens: local businesses switching from national language to english and messing everything up

All I want is the ability to set render resolution independently of display resolution. Even FFXI could do that.

I wish.
Then maybe the combat system won't be garbage
and they could stop making classes exactly the same! :eek:

But nah, we'll just be getting beautiful 1.0 textures now lmao.

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Originally Posted by Wingale

My friends told me that the next expansion (7.0), the game will receive a new engine

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We have not been told this. A new engine is stretching what they said too far. The last time we had a new engine it required a new copy of the game, a new client to be downloaded and a cinematic with Bahamut destroying the environment. Whatever calamities happen in the future, I do not think they are quite on the scale of re-releasing the game.

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upgrading graphic of the game.

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This is what we were told. They will be upgrading the shaders, upscaling the textures used on faces and grass, adding more objects to the environment and increasing the amount of lights used.

They went into quite a lot of detail. You can watch it yourself or read the forum summary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2TWmsce_eg&t=3026
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...803-03-2022%29

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Originally Posted by RitsukoSonoda

Yes... please think of me... I've had shares in Squaresoft and Enix before the merger... >.>

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Oh good, you can ask the other CEOs this during the next meeting:
WHERE IS THE NEW DANCE SUMMIT, ENIX?! YOU HAVE BEEN PROMISING THAT WE WOULD GET A NEW BUST A MOVE/DANCE SUMMIT SINCE 2002.

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Originally Posted by Raoabolic

Oh good, you can ask the other CEOs this during the next meeting:
WHERE IS THE NEW DANCE SUMMIT, ENIX?! YOU HAVE BEEN PROMISING THAT WE WOULD GET A NEW BUST A MOVE/DANCE SUMMIT SINCE 2002.

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what's that? a dancing game? do ppl actually still play those? from all the things I've seen from ppl streaming playing ring fit on switch... is the playerbase of those games still in good enough shape to play those games? killing consumer base with heart attacks isn't good business model lol XD

I'm bugging them for Dragon Quest Builders 3, Global Dragon Quest X release, a 3d open world secret of mana game that brings back classic mechanics like weapon interactions on the environment to unlock places or cross terrain, and development of full dive VR tech to use with upcoming MMO FFXXX >.>