Watching some 1.0 Videos

[Avenger]

Yoshi-P had a really interesting presentation at the 2014 Game Developer's Conference on why 1.0 failed and how they fixed it in 2.0. I'm not sure if it was this presentation, but I do recall him mentioning issues with 1.0 such as empty game zones and bad map designs, as well as how they actually lowered the graphical quality to make the game more playable and to enable more than 20 characters to be shown at once.

video: http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1020796/Behind-the-Realm
english: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/2...antasy_XIV.php
slides: http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1020179/Behind-the-Realm

[Kotemon]

as well as how they actually lowered the graphical quality to make the game more playable and to enable more than 20 characters to be shown at once.

If technology and bandwidth increases by 100% ~ 200% in the next 11 or so years. I'm almost willing to assume the next online successor may be on par to handle what Oda had in mind with 1.0 and its initial visual design. However, given everything I've read and heard about 1.0. It's almost like the world concepts of Dragons Dogma, Elder Scrolls, Fallout, etc.. but applied to a larger MMO instead of a single player or 2 player co-op. Hearing how ESO doesn't look as good as Skyrim (possibly due to the MMO limits on/of clients) or play as well. Everything Yoshi did makes a lot more sense. Even Phantasy Star Online looked pretty, but that was mostly due to how it's world was server/hub and everything else was not that big. Perhaps one day we could crank up the graphics after or if they migrate to the PS5. Untill then I'm still trying to decide if the Primals looked better in 1.0 or 2.0.