Dear SE - What happened?

[Abriael]

Same thing with irises. Walk around in Limsa Lominsa for example and move from inside a building out into the sunlight. Pretty neat effect when you're inside and outside it looks drastically brighter, right? Just like an actual eye works, you've adjusted to the interior lighting and the light from the sun outside is extremely bright relatively speaking. Except that's a hard coded effect in the map (step on the line in the archway leading outside, there is a very specific point when the light suddenly and drastically changes even though you're going almost nowhere). Games have been able to procedurally measure light and make dynamic adjustments since 2005, SE has just taken the easy way out by forcing that effect into the map rather than design the engine so that it works anywhere and in any future circumstances without any hard coded work added into the map itself.

Effects that have to be calculated are normally more hardware-intensive than fixed effects.

That's not really fixable either without major changes to the graphical engine which I highly doubt they're going to change. Disappointing, especially knowing that SE will not be making amends for their laziness either.

They have made plenty amends. I guess for some haters it'll never be enough.

Hate to be that guy... but how about a program where we can send back our games for a refund?.. i bought the collectors edition and can't bring myself to touch it for the last few months.

$70 can buy another nice piece of coral for my tank... and it will look much better than a ffxiv box sitting in my closet.

I'd love to play this game... but i'm not going to waste what little free time i have on something i do not find enjoyable. Maybe in a few months i'd buy the regular (as a journal, key, and crappy helm ingame isn't worth $20). But i already shelled in for an over hyped game that failed to deliver on almost any level.

What about informing yourself about a game before purchasing it? You know, it helps.

They already made a sizable (and unprecedented in the market) monetary investment by waiving monthly fees without making the game fully free2play (and adding a cash shop to generate revenue like in every other F2P MMORPG). Going around demanding refunds is utterly nonsensical.

In any case, if you're not going to waste your precious free time (no one is asking you to) on this game, what are you here for? trolling?