How good is the game engine of FFXIV?

[kikix12]

There are many things you can say about B&S but well optimized isn't one of them that game runs like trash(...)

Its optimization actually is not worse than FFXIV. It is far more PING-reliant, but that's got nothing to do with optimization. If the cooldowns in that game were the same as in Final Fantasy, I'd still be playing it instead of Final Fantasy XIV because it had less issues otherwise being enjoyable enough...while being free. Really, its PING dependency is the only real issue with it.

Unless you want to tell me that my laptop somehow plays a less optimized and more demanding game better than a more optimized and less demanding game...Yeah...no.


The reason why Final Fantasy XIV is so restricted is not to save bandwidth, to ease up calculation costs or to get optimized. It is so restricted because doing it like that provided the developers with tools to make a lot of content at lower money and time expense. However, that comes at the cost of any single change requiring a massive undertaking. In most different games adding a new race that is not just another human is a matter of just going through a rendering of every armor on that race and making corrections only to the parts that look poorly due to the game operating on 3D models. In Final Fantasy XIV every armor needs to be redone from scratch because it operates on textures. Every change requires hundredths of hours making sure that the game will know how to react to it in every single situation. Every emote, every movement, every animation. EVERYTHING. That's why this design sucks. Changing something retroactively is massive undertaking that can require changing several percent of the game.

As for super custom avatar, I'm willing to bet most MMORPG use a trick in which the custom avatar you create is localized onto your PC and the actually model transmitted to other gamers isn't as in depth as what you are seeing. I other words, the game would have to upload your custom avatar and download that specific design file to every player you meet and vice versa. All the upload and download would really start slowing up everything and would be almost impossible for console gamers.

The "model" of a character is actually several hundred bytes at most. It's just a few dozens of numbers that the games engine renders accordingly to a formula that it already has. Every player that have the game have the tools to render such a file.

It really is no different than this game. Except that in this game the numbers are from 1 to 4 or some other small number while in those other games they are from 1 to let's say 100. And instead of a set of maybe 8 numbers, you have a set of 16-20 or so.