Would you trade new ingame content for an engine upgrade?

[RobynDaBank]

No. I'm sorry, but there's something wrong with how SE engineers things. Just the sound engine change at Endwalker launch created an issue I've only ever seen in FF7 Remake. The client poops itself for no reason and can bear no issues within the hardware, even if it's the wiring or a fundamentally flawed part.

A massive upgrade will definitely not go over well.

[AziraSyuren]

I mean, I wouldn't be happy about it, but unless it was a hard reset I'd still play it when it was done and there was new content to play.

[Skiros]

Yes ONLY IF that means we can have far more dynamic content, with fresh raid design, fresh dungeon design, much more creative side content.

I literally don't give a damn about any QoL beyond what we have currently. And if all an engine upgrade will achieve is graphical fidelity or server stability, I don't care.

[Shougun]

Engine upgrade would be nice (by engine referring to many sometimes intertwining and sometimes entirely unrelated systems).

Though then again I can imagine they might as well be able to get some value at a new MMO (in a few years, not saying this instant or next year even, which however does mean working on it soon or close to soon as these things take time), as for people who are perhaps ready for something next but hoping that FFXIV can change so much that it becomes next, familiarity search for something new, new opportunities and potentials (like "oh I've learned so much I bet if we did this instead it would be great, or I wish I could prototype this idea but it's pointless now because FFXIV is already 10 years of content deep" etc), etc. Difficult to make too many huge changes to an existing castle like FFXIV (and other content castles), maybe not impossible but dangerous in the sense of changing something into something else, and yet clearly FFXIV will be able to survive for quite some time further and next to another, ideally, substantially different MMO (which Yoshida has said as much himself, the next one would be quite different- in such a way that he's not saying there 'is' a next one, just a hypothetical out loud thought).

If the next 'one' is going to be like 10 years or more then definitely please, I'd love to see the glamour system for example improve. LONG ago had really wanted an item log (before we had a glamour system), and awesomely SE was actually looking into such a concept but found it not practical to implement unfortunately... If we're to be that far out then I'd love for those to be looked at again. I wouldn't be against it in addition to something new that has those neat tech solutions in sooner, but I can imagine FFXIV is already generally a pretty great game and can be continued on that merit while people who 'need' the better tech could also be satisfied while SE is also checking off some other boxes. Anyway, don't read comment as doom for FFXIV- the game is going to be fine, just my thought that such huge deep system changes might almost be better done rather than against climbing a waterfall just being built on new flat solid ground. Game isn't going to be shutdown anytime soon, and that's good.

[Limecat]

I don't support any form of engine or graphics upgrades in any game beyond mid-2010s levels until the mining craze somehow dies and upper-mid-range graphics cards can be found in the wild again for $250 or less.

[Krotoan]

Interesting how this thread is revealing a huge rift in what people think an engine upgrade would do vs what it actually makes possible.

[TristanX]

I don't support any form of engine or graphics upgrades in any game beyond mid-2010s levels until the mining craze somehow dies and upper-mid-range graphics cards can be found in the wild again for $250 or less.

Maintaining old settings and adding new ones won't leave people behind. Its just that extra options for people with more powerful rigs.

[colnix]

Do not see any pros in engine upgrade. We wont get any outstanding graphics anyway, because of MMORPG limitations. There were lot of examples (R.I.P BLESS) and we all have what it was: i dont want 1.0 lags once more

[Imoye]

Interesting how this thread is revealing a huge rift in what people think an engine upgrade would do vs what it actually makes possible.

People think engine upgrade = improved graphics only. This is not so. FFXIV is severely limited by really bad code and the resulting mess of an engine that it's currently running. An upgrade, if done right, would literally improve all aspects of the game.

[Sarnai]

Seeing how engine upgrade went with BnS? I'm not sure tbh. It have to be handled with extreme caution to see that nothing breaks, that most people will still have access to the game and that we wont get new bugs.