The zones we have now are to small.

[Alish]

People keep saying 'ps3 limitation ps3 limitation' must've never played 1.0
Totally seamless world. Guess what? It ran like crap even on decent pcs.

Thats because the engine 1.0 actually ran on was complete and utter garbage though .

[yukikaze_yanagi]

1.0 could be seamless, but do you remember how was bland ? The areas are now smaller, but are much more achitecturally rich. I like better the latter then huge areas full of nothing

[Shura]

1.0 also had zones, but it was built around a system called seamless zoning so you just didn't notice you were changing zones. It was also because of this that every zone in a region looked the same and people complained it was bland. For those that played 1.0, you probably noticed areas where a character would disappear and reappear a few secs later or if you were auto following, it would disengage at certain areas, these were zone lines.

[Cutie_McSnuggles]

You know, people are always going on about how 1.0 > 2.0 because PS3 limitations. But you do realize that 1.0 was designed with PS3 in mind as well, right?

[adam92682]

1.0 also had zones, but it was built around a system called seamless zoning so you just didn't notice you were changing zones. It was also because of this that every zone in a region looked the same and people complained it was bland. For those that played 1.0, you probably noticed areas where a character would disappear and reappear a few secs later or if you were auto following, it would disengage at certain areas, these were zone lines.

We'll they should have made a 64 bit version. With 32 GB of RAM you could probably load all the games environments and only have to stream in other players, monsters ect..

[yukikaze_yanagi]

We'll they should have made a 64 bit version. With 32 GB of RAM you could probably load all the games environments and only have to stream in other players, monsters ect..

Final Fantasy XIV: game only avaiable in 64 bit

[Ninix]

People keep saying 'ps3 limitation ps3 limitation' must've never played 1.0
Totally seamless world. Guess what? It ran like crap even on decent pcs.

What's your point? All this demonstrates is that Crystal Tools was a steaming pile. Plenty of other MMOs have totally seamless worlds without performance issues.

[BlueMage]

(1) I'd rather have smaller zones that aren't just the same couple yards copy-pasted for hundreds of miles.

(2) I'd rather we get completely new zones added, rather than a patch/expansion to make the existing zones bigger.

[Dyvid]

Black Shroud 1.0:


Black Shroud 2.0:

[KamikazeMan]

After the mess that was 1.0, I'm actually fine with the size. However, I do have a problem with the lack of things to do in zones. They feel small to me because all there is to do are FATEs, leves, and gathering. Nothing to explore since the world is pretty much flat, nothing to discover, nothing fun to do....nada.