Quote Originally Posted by Gyson View Post
The fact that the artwork in FFXIV is prettier is not relevant. So, no, that LoTRO is a 7 year old game is not an excuse in FFXIV's favor.
Are you kidding? The game was released with that current years technology in mind for processing and resources... Why would it not be an excuse? We may not know the exact numbers but its fairly obvious that a 7 year old game is going to require less resources. Pretty artwork sounds like your taking a strawman stance, its not about "pretty artwork" its about how much memory and resources the "pretty artwork" takes. More graphical games take heftier processing, otherwise we would never have to upgrade video cards, processors, or even ram for that matter, lord knows what the server hardware changes involve. This argument is pointless at any rate.

I'm all for a dev response to overall house dilemma though, I doubt we will see one cause they probably don't even know what direction to go next with it. The dev teams been a lot less talkative about their future plans for anything other than bugfixes or an upcoming patch for a while now. We have learned from liveletters and other conversations that they can change their minds and also not act on what they say they plan to do anyway. Anyone remember free roaming primals... lol.