Poll: Seamless+CopyPaste VS. Zones+Variety

[Krym]

This is an example of a seamless MMO:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yraYIpxxLoI

[Mack]

This is an example of a seamless MMO:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yraYIpxxLoI

The landscape looks really nice, love the island, although i hate the character models and the animations.

[Nuru]

The landscape looks really nice, love the island, although i hate the character models and the animations.

Yeah but that was just how a seamless MMORPG does it right. :P

[Dragon]

Like this post if you want

A world that has smaller zones, with loading time in between zones, that allows the game to load a greater variety of textures per zone and give the artists more leeway to make the environments more detailed and less monotonous.

Yeah, I'll take variety over seemless; though I still only consider TBS to be the only area where there's a lot of copy/pasted assets (which even then, I've seen every terrain archetype out there to know one can only do so much in a game since it'll eventually become copy/paste work). I personally liked the idea of FFXI's zones anyways; what got me, like others, is what happened with the chat system upon zoning.

What's the point of a seamless world anyway when everyone just ports everywhere. Still have to sit through a loading screen half the time I go anywhere.

Option #2

Definitely.

[Vesperia]

The landscape looks really nice, love the island, although i hate the character models and the animations.

Well that is kind of beside the point.

Anyway, XLgames are in fact fixing their animations (they hired the guy from Red Dead Redemption just recently). But I dont think they will improve the character models, having said that.

[Seif]

180+ replies and still no word from SE that they are even listening I think the poll is quite clear what the public thinks. All they've announced is that they'll do texture tweaks to the ps3 version nothing more.

[Darkoon]

The game is already "zoned". I went with option 2. Also, art style > polygon count. Look at Guild Wars 2, tell me it's not a beautiful game.

[Vesperia]

The game is already "zoned". I went with option 2. Also, art style > polygon count. Look at Guild Wars 2, tell me it's not a beautiful game.

"it's not a beautiful game"

And im not just saying that to be contrary.

[Mack]

Well that is kind of beside the point.

Anyway, XLgames are in fact fixing their animations (they hired the guy from Red Dead Redemption just recently). But I dont think they will improve the character models, having said that.

I understand its to show how seamless works, but there is a compromise there imo...I don't think any machine can handle a completely seamless FFXIV with the graphics that game has now.

[Dreadnought]

I understand its to show how seamless works, but there is a compromise there imo...I don't think any machine can handle a completely seamless FFXIV with the graphics that game has now.

but.... FFXIV is high on graphics... but also not a seemless game, so what are you talking about? we still very much have zone lines like in FFXI, the zones are just massive this time.