FINAL FANTASY 14 AND NEXT GEN

[Eli85]

There are a lot of games where standard ps4 cannot hold constant 30 fps, its a fact not delusion. God of war is heavily instanced game and even this drops below 30 on ps4. Reddead redemtion 2 drops, ESO drops, neverwinter drops, gta 5 drops, battlefield 5 and 1 also drops.
Its outdated and inferior and will block any future advancements for ffxiv like it or not. Even ffxiv drops below 30 fps on ps4

Factually incorrect. I'll repeat once more: the only time XIV frame drops on PS4 is in heavily crowded areas like Eulmore. My PS4 has 0 frame drops even in the 24-player raids. You say GoW is heavily instanced? Fine. Witcher 3, SpiderMan, and Horizon are all big open world games, and they have stable 30 fps. No drops.

Again, not defending the Jaguar CPU, but PS4 games are optimized so well that they only experience drops in MMOs and online games when too many players are on the screen at once (hubs). But this is something that even happens on lower end PCs.

So please stop talking out of your arse.

[RayddenPrime]

I would actually be down with a F14 - 2 , the game plot could really make it easy. That is if that don't decide to close the story with next expansions. The part that hurts from a new MMO from same franchise is the amount of hours and grind and money spent and having to redo all of it in new game.
If they have some things that can be transfered toward new game than it would be awesome. But than again i also feel i wouldn’t mind at all restarting anew in a new adventure

[RyuSaarva]

There are a lot of games where standard ps4 cannot hold constant 30 fps, its a fact not delusion. God of war is heavily instanced game and even this drops below 30 on ps4. Reddead redemtion 2 drops, ESO drops, neverwinter drops, gta 5 drops, battlefield 5 and 1 also drops.
Its outdated and inferior and will block any future advancements for ffxiv like it or not. Even ffxiv drops below 30 fps on ps4

god of war looks 10 times better than FF XIV though.

[Caitlinzulu]

god of war looks 10 times better than FF XIV though.

Isnt god of war a single player game? A lot of issue's disapear when you dont have to constantly communicate with servers. Off course graphics can be better then.

[Rufalus]

Right.

But the OP is asking for suggestions to improve the game not on a performance fundamental level, in which most if not all were asking for improvements that aren't going to happen because it would take much more work to change.

Gotcha. Just thought worth pointing out some of actual gains in a hardware transition because yeah it's very unlikely that S-E would remake large parts of the game... As an aside, whatever happened to that FF XI remake (collab project with Nexon) they haven't shown anything publically on that in a long time.

Yeah, 7 gb/s for sequential read/write. Not real world performance. Games aren't one large file, but lots of smaller files. We won't see load time go away, just be faster.

Yeah not literally "go away", but I meant relative to the stock mechanical hdd performance in PS4 consoles it's a tasty upgrade to the console experience. People who got used to slow load are going to be very happy when they see how much faster the memory, CPU, etc have come since last gen. Zoooom

[Eldevern]

MMORPG are in decline because all games are the same with no imagination. There's nothing surprising to see ArcheAge-like games to fail when they have nothing new to offer : graphics are bad and always the same story in medieval world (seriously, for this reason I expect Amazon to fail with their new game.).

BlackDesert is graphically better than some to-be-released games. If new games are not able to do better, they will fail. We already have WWO, FFXIV, TESO and BDO (and Rift if you like PVP). We don't need some medieval world again. Especially if it is to play some wild blind whale hunt.

Wildstar fail was a big deception for me but the translation came too late and the game were somehow confuse.

[Kisshu]

Just give me better/faster load times and stable gameplay when there's a lot of people in the same area. Doing hunts on PS4 can be annoying with the long load times after a teleport.

[LolitaBansheeMeru]

Just give me better/faster load times and stable gameplay when there's a lot of people in the same area. Doing hunts on PS4 can be annoying with the long load times after a teleport.

I mean they could literally add a single button to the game that hides all other characters that alone would solve so many issues for alot of players.

[QT_Melon]

Gotcha. Just thought worth pointing out some of actual gains in a hardware transition because yeah it's very unlikely that S-E would remake large parts of the game... As an aside, whatever happened to that FF XI remake (collab project with Nexon) they haven't shown anything publically on that in a long time.


Yeah not literally "go away", but I meant relative to the stock mechanical hdd performance in PS4 consoles it's a tasty upgrade to the console experience. People who got used to slow load are going to be very happy when they see how much faster the memory, CPU, etc have come since last gen. Zoooom

There's no void of warranty to change your HDD to begin with. I have a hybrid drive on mine with a TB of space. I'm not sure what argument you're trying to present here as this is attainable NOW, and at a much cheaper cost than upgrading to a completely new system.

That said, yes they can port over the game to the PS5 since it's going to be at least 1 gen backwards compatible. I'd be okay with this.

[Kisshu]

I mean they could literally add a single button to the game that hides all other characters that alone would solve so many issues for alot of players.

Dream of the option from FFXI where we could adjust the number of characters shown on screen. Actually made Jeuno playable.

Also for the hunt fights themselves, it simply doesn't work with too many people around(a-ranks not showing, very delayed markers, etc.)