Is most of FFXIV's failings due to their choice of engine?

[Abriael]

Self shadowing is a separate process and yes UE3 can do it, you are comparing a few videos that may not even have the game maxed out, for all we know self shadowing may be turned off in the players settings or maybe perhaps the game doesn't support it.

The fact that the unreal engine can do it doesn't matter it will be put in Blade and Soul, simply because self shadowing is *very* hardware intensive, especially when it has to work on a LOT of characters at once (situation that is very common in MMORPGs)
The crystal tools can do self shadowing as well, as much as dynamic lightning and shading. They simply didn't put it in this game because they preferred to focus hardware resources in other areas of the rendering, like characters, textures and texture effects, to which Blade and Soul (or any other MMORPG built with the UE3) doesn't hold a candle.
It's that simple.

An engine supporting a feature doesn't mean that that feature will be included in all the games created with it.

But your grasping at straws when all you have to go on is a few videos, when you actually have hands on experience let me know

So it's ok to use the same videos to bash FFXIV, but it's not ok to critically look at their actual flaws? LOL.
Talk about biased.

copy/paste is not a means of creating zones quickly?

Of course it is, some people just like to speculate on things they don't really know without having a single clue.

Mind you, if the devs had to reply to all the threads generated by ignorance that pop up on the forums, they wouldn't work on the game.


By the way, Se actually experimented with the UE3 (on The Last Remnant). Quite obviously the expriment has been discarded. With good reason.