Poll: Seamless+CopyPaste VS. Zones+Variety

[Mack]

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.

What's so difficult to understand? the link was showing what a seamless game should be like, I said that there's a compromise with the graphics however since FFXIV probably can't pull off a completely seamless world because its got better graphics, unless it upped the PC requirements. That's it. I'm not arguing anything, I'm not disagreeing with anyone, I was just talking.

[Warlyx]

well u can put some "doors" (2-3s loading screens) , here and there (i really dont mind some loadings)

[Naqaj]

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.

Seriously, what the heck do you expect? That SE decides to completely scrap the game and redo the whole engine, because of a forum poll?

[Elexia]

Seriously, what the heck do you expect? That SE decides to completely scrap the game and redo the whole engine, because of a forum poll?

"I expect them to listen to me and do everything I ask. I don't care that it would take a very long time...no wait I do care it's supposed to only take a day to redo every map in the game, the poll doesn't lie. We want better zones and it better not take longer than a week!"

They didn't respond because they know if they say it would take awhile to do most people would do nothing but bitch about it.

[Nuru]

One thing i will never understand is why Tanaka even wanted this game to be seamless if it was going to be released on the PS3 as well. Load times aren't much of a problem really, its not like you are the only one that has to wait..

[Elexia]

It's what people wanted because they were (GASP) tired of zones and "EVERY OTHER MMO HAS SEAMLESS WORLD".

>.>

[Nuru]

It's what people wanted because they were (GASP) tired of zones and "EVERY OTHER MMO HAS SEAMLESS WORLD".

>.>

I think that was just Tanaka's decision alone though.

Besides, many seamless MMORPGs can't even be released on consoles because of the stress they would cause. To me, im more for a variety of zones. Even if some zones don't really have BGM, ex. Tahrongi Canyon.

[Vesperia]

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.

Shouldn't seamless games have better graphics, though?

FFXIV faces memory limitations because it has zones - everything loaded in at one time.

A seamless game would not face memory limitations because the 'zones' would only be loaded in within a certain radius around the player.

[Miku-chikuku]

Thats what I thought, but maybe Crystal tools doesn't handel streaming well, like unreal 2.x so you get very memory intensive loading patterns like in lineage2.

[Elexia]

CT handles it perfectly fine. FFXIV is horribly unoptimized. The whole point of the CT engine was to mainly do seamless transitions (CS > battle, Day>Night etc.) xD