This is rather frustrating...

[magenta_taco]

did someone say... copy/paste?

[Starlord]

did someone say... copy/paste?

Are you seriously going to "nit-pick" at that? Let me ask you this, Are they all in the same spot everytime you go 2 feet? They look like they are in different spots to me.

And EVERY MMO does C/P to some degree.

[Biggs]

did someone say... copy/paste?

Better foliage and what not than entire chunks of landscape at a time, but I could be jumping the gun on that, we will have to wait and see what the walkthroughs of the terrain look like before I can say for certainty they havent repeated that mistake. Considering they moved to having zones because that was a major complaint, I would be very suprised if they did that again. I can live with cloned cacti, but no thanks on the cloned canyons and valleys.

[cloverkitty]

I honestly think with the gaming community that there are many who just don't feel complete if they cannot complain about something.
Example:
1. "Ugh the game lags", so we get an update with much better detail but lower quality textures. So people complain OMG my textures ; ;
2. "We want FFXI jobs (BLM,WHM,DRG,WAR,etc)", So we get many of those jobs. So people complain that we don't have THF, Nin, SAM, etc.

I could go on forever on these examples. This is just another example.

My understanding on the complaint with copy and paste was that you would pass and area and run a little ways then pass that same area again but in a different place. That was a reasonable complaint.

However do you actually expect them to make 1000s of individual cacti? seriously?
Just about every game out there reuses land pieces. The trick is that when you go from area to area they are not all placed in the same place but just rotated or something. Also as long as there are variances in the land much of this will not matter.

[Biggs]

I honestly think with the gaming community that there are many who just don't feel complete if they cannot complain about something.
Example:
1. "Ugh the game lags", so we get an update with much better detail but lower quality textures. So people complain OMG my textures ; ;
2. "We want FFXI jobs (BLM,WHM,DRG,WAR,etc)", So we get many of those jobs. So people complain that we don't have THF, Nin, SAM, etc.

I could go on forever on these examples. This is just another example.

My understanding on the complaint with copy and paste was that you would pass and area and run a little ways then pass that same area again but in a different place. That was a reasonable complaint.

However do you actually expect them to make 1000s of individual cacti? seriously?
Just about every game out there reuses land pieces. The trick is that when you go from area to area they are not all placed in the same place but just rotated or something. Also as long as there are variances in the land much of this will not matter.

I was just imagining what that screen would look like if there were a few ants thrown in, and my heart skipped a beat a little lol. The landscape will drastically alter how dynamic the game feels once we see how the mobs look in it. Imagine not seeing a mob because a cactus was in the way, it certainly offers up the chance for more realistic gameplay. If they gotta copy and paste tree's to get this effect, then by all means lol

[Laraul]

My understanding on the complaint with copy and paste was that you would pass and area and run a little ways then pass that same area again but in a different place. That was a reasonable complaint.

No one ever stated this. They just showed that on the drawn map (which is just a rough representation) certain areas appear repeatedly like they we're maybe using something like, I don't know a graphics application, to create the overhead maps. The whole thing was silly. No one ever complains about that you see the same thing for each family of monsters. Or that all the whm AF looks the same on every person who wear's it. Go take a look at google maps, you'll see this "copy and paste" thing everywhere.

[brittany]

did someone say... copy/paste?

I live in arizona.. these are like saquaro cati.. they really all do look alike.. =^.^=

anyways.. I played 11 and its grafics seemed blehh.. but i still loved that game ..