Letter from the Producer LXII

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Modders would be laughing at you.

Except even a lot of modders can't get gear to not break character models. Even simple edits sometimes screws up displays. I've seen pics of gear straight up deleting bits of character models when looked at from certain angles.

[Dualblade]

Except even a lot of modders can't get gear to not break character models. Even simple edits sometimes screws up displays. I've seen pics of gear straight up deleting bits of character models when looked at from certain angles.

I think his post was more about laughing at it not being hard when the modders would tell you that no, there is actually a lot of work involved for the dev team?

[Gemina]

They're going to be genderlocked forever, aren't they?

In all honesty, it is better to look at it this way. Not only do you have to thoroughly read Yoshi's statements, you also have to read between the lines to understand what he's telling you without him directly saying it. The time we live in is the present. Not the past, nor the future. Female Viera and male Hrothgar are here now, and that is the way of it. It is now time for all of us to move on and look forward to the coming expansion. It is less than two months away now.

[Alucard135]

I think his post was more about laughing at it not being hard when the modders would tell you that no, there is actually a lot of work involved for the dev team?

Exactly that. Those saying that it's a simple job to fit the gear on all races just because they share the same mesh, have no idea of what else is done for each race specifically. I've seen some modded gear pics where the dye color breaks at certain locations on the mesh from a very small modification.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Exactly that. Those saying that it's a simple job to fit the gear on all races just because they share the same mesh, have no idea of what else is done for each race specifically. I've seen some modded gear pics where the dye color breaks at certain locations on the mesh from a very small modification.

Ahh, my mistake. So used to people saying "look, modders can do it and they don't even get paid/it's just a hobby!" due to ignorance haha...

[LiteBrite]

Wow... White Knights are out in full force in this thread, talking down anyone that don't praise the devs cause of this "Live Letter". And why do you always have to use the word entitlement too? Like you think you're entitled to get what you're getting in the new expansion is funny stuff...

[Astarotha]

i think this picture sums up very well the reason they have to go through every piece of gear and QA it and adds context to what yoship was talking about with gear meshes.

look at livias wrist.

this very small motion causes extreme stretch in her texture even though shes a single character with a single model and a 'single' texture with a fixed set of character sliders. now imagine them using a bulk algorithm to process gear, theyd STILL have to go through and manually check each and every gear piece (this could be done by set, with a secondary piece by piece check to make sure a piece of transition texture doesnt end up halfway down a meshes leg, but even with an efficient process its still a lot of stuff to look through) to make sure something like this doesnt happen during movement or that a prim doesnt stretch wierd with the height slider or something (imagine getting a butt slider and any value other than the default causes livia wrist).

[Vahlnir]

i think this picture sums up very well the reason they have to go through every piece of gear and QA it and adds context to what yoship was talking about with gear meshes.

Yeah, I don't think most people doubt how much work it takes to do what they do. I believe them when they say it takes a lot of time and money. I just think that, considering the size of the company, they should be hiring more people and upgrading the equipment required to run this game. They want experienced people. Every company does. But sometimes it's best to bite the bullet and hire someone who may need a little training, especially when doing so would lead to making more money in the long run. It's about common sense as much as it is good business sense. But I guess they need to fund their other projects somehow...and to be completely fair, what I've seen of the FF VII remake so far looks decent enough. Most of the time they put their money to good use. FF XIV just tends to suffer for it.

[Skivvy]

Wow... White Knights are out in full force in this thread, talking down anyone that don't praise the devs cause of this "Live Letter". Any why do you always have to use the word entitlement too? Like you think your entitled to get what you're getting in the new expansion is funny stuff...

Calling people entitled is the cool thing to do. Just like claiming people are White knights.

[Vahlnir]

Calling people entitled is the cool thing to do. Just like claiming people are White knights.

We are all entitled...entitled to our opinions, that is. I guess in that sense people are correct.