Quote Originally Posted by Denji View Post
oh my god why do you guys always believe server side matters when it comes to graphics.

it's the most infuriating parts of these threads. there is nothing and i mean NOTHING server-side when it comes to displaying ANYTHING. the servers likely don't even have a graphical user interface. it'd be such a waste of resources if they did.

everything you see in-game is what your computer is told to display by the server. that's it. it says "hey, this person is a white and grey furred hrothgar wearing the radiant's fending set" and your PC/the engine on your machine is what actually shows the graphics. it would be an utterly ABSURD waste of resources to send literal graphical information over the internet. in fact in terms of data sent/received, FFXIV is extremely light. i was playing on mobile data and it used approximately 50-60MB of data over the course of 3-4 hours. that's all.

i'm sorry to be blunt but every 3-4 pages of threads like this there's someone who comes flying in saying UM AHCKSHULLY THE SERVER CAN'T HANDLE IT and it's just so entirely clear they've never actually looked into it or checked it for themselves and are just talking out their ass.
I said limited by the engine, not the server (A better way to say that would be anything live on the server has to be engine compatible... but I didn't say that). Something about the way the game allocates data is very weird.

But this seems to be an excuse for everything: Inventory, character customization, glamour systems... It took forever for them to let us queue with our chocobos out for some reason...

The whole thing needs a fix if we're really going to be in this for the long haul. Ten more years of these limitations will be very rough.