Do we want another 10 years of FF14 on this engine?

[VelKallor]

Does anybody here actually know what a game engine is?

Yes. Two immediate examples, Creation (Bethesda ) and Unreal.

[DiaDeem]

Just a quick reminder that XIV and XVI run on the same engine. If you've forgotten what that can look like, watch this.

[Jeeqbit]

Just a quick reminder that XIV and XVI run on the same engine. If you've forgotten what that can look like, watch this.

Exactly, SE reduce the quality of the graphics for this game on purpose because it's a multiplayer game. When it's a single player game, they are willing to make it like XVI.

[Espon]

I thought in 7.0 they were ether upgrading the engine or replacing it. Pretty sure engine has now can't handle the new graphics coming in 7.0.

The graphics were designed to look like this so that people with slow PCs and PS3s can run the game. 1.0 required a beast of a computer to run, which isn't good when trying to attract as many people as possible to play your game.

After 10 years, people typically have much better computers or PS5s so it's okay to upgrade the graphics.

[Larirawiel]

Rewriting software from scratch is a very bad idea in most cases:
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/...ver-do-part-i/

But they could refactor and modernize the engine step by step. Blizzard did this in WoW. They did not replace the engine. It is still the engine, they used in Warcraft 3.


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[TheMightyMollusk]

A wheel with hamsters in it!
But rare hamsters and you need to find some that like each other otherwise they constantly crash together.

No, that's the servers. The game engine uses gerbils. Common mistake.

[Naoki34]

They say they have a 10 year plan for this game.

But the server ticks, housing limitations, animation limitations, spaghetti code, etc etc etc.

Devs will often say they can't do xyz because of limitations of the engine. They acknowledge that they can't make the game better because of it.

Do we really want another 10 years in this? Or would we rather get FFXIV-2?

It must be accepted that this is an MMO made primarily for the Playstation, so the graphics will depend on the evolution of Sony's console.
Remember that it was originally released on Ps3, so it won't go any further than the Ps5 can handle while still being playable on Ps4.

By the way, FFXIV runs extremely well without technical problems on Ps4 Pro, with no crashes or Directx problems.

Ps: If you want it to be more beautiful, there are ways that I won't mention, you'll find them quickly with a little research.

[Clover_Blake]

Why not? I'm enjoying the game as it is. Furthermore, we're getting a graphical update with the next expansion! That makes me very excited fghfghf

[Hanayumi]

They more or less did it with 1.0 and arr, guess they could do it again just at a greater effect and entirely new engine. That being said im sure you'd have a lot of folk cry out for old version anyway so cant see them doing it just for FFXIV, but rather an entirely new ff mmo.

[Kranel_San]

They say they have a 10 year plan for this game.

But the server ticks, housing limitations, animation limitations, spaghetti code, etc etc etc.

Devs will often say they can't do xyz because of limitations of the engine. They acknowledge that they can't make the game better because of it.

Do we really want another 10 years in this? Or would we rather get FFXIV-2?

WoW kept updating their decades-old engine to be compatible. I don't see why SE can't do the same.