Lackluster Graphics in FFXIV

[Elkwood]

UH Huh and the 2005 FFVII Tech demo is actual in game footage as well right? The 2005 tech demo for Rapture is just a demo of what the engine can do it is not actual in game footage, hence it means it is pre rendered. You would see Icons and other graphics such as a 1st person view of your character running around if it was in game footage, same as you do now when you login to xiv. The 2005 demo is no different then the opening sequences of the Limsa boat before you fight the first monsters.

Also as a person before said if you can prove that it is in game footage and someone is controlling a character in it, please provide a link to the interview or stop trolling with useless bull.

The Mysterious E3 Tech Demo

May 16th, 2005

Fast forward to 2005. The setting: E3. Square Enix's primary purpose was to announce to the public that it was on-board with Microsoft to develop it's first title on the X-Box 360 platform, a port of FFXI. At the close of the E3 press conference Youichi Wada, President of Square Enix, took the audience by surprise when he revealed never-before-seen footage of what appeared to be a new MMORPG. This video would become simply known as the Square Enix Secret MMO Tech Demo.

The short 40 second video depicted an elegant port city featuring steam-punk architechtures, a passing hot-air balloon, and what appeared to be wyverns floating over the calm waters. But perhaps the most interesting (and confusing) aspect of the tech demo was that this particular city was populated by characters strikingly similar to those found in FFXI.

No information was given regarding the actual content of the video, only that it was running on the 360 platform. It was at this conference that Square Enix first announced to the public that a new MMORPG was in the works. SE then went back into the proverbial bat cave with the project, details of which would not surface until nearly two years later, only bits and pieces of rumors and brief statements.