Technology in FFXIV + Visual Style

[Shikaree]

I'd like to see a magically developed city with great advancements in technology as well, but also not have it been destroyed eons ago and is now in ruins and mostly lost technology like how a lot of games like to put them :/

Getting to the topic, I've done comparisons and even posted the adventurer's guild art in another topic about how Eorzea currently looks. It feels bland, empty and lacking in life. Even the Rapture demo that was posted looked like it could have been a more lively Limsa from the way it was laid out.

[Onidemon]

I'd like to see a magically developed city with great advancements in technology as well, but also not have it been destroyed eons ago and is now in ruins and mostly lost technology like how a lot of games like to put them :/

I agree. I think FFXIV's main/central city should look like Rabanastre.

http://gallery.burrowowl.net/index.p...image/6779.jpg

But i know it will be ishgard and from what it looks like on the outside, it will be a plain old castle with grey brick walls all over the place... another depressing scenery.....

[Onidemon]

Getting to the topic, I've done comparisons and even posted the adventurer's guild art in another topic about how Eorzea currently looks. It feels bland, empty and lacking in life. Even the Rapture demo that was posted looked like it could have been a more lively Limsa from the way it was laid out.

I'm not too familiar with video game development but i hope all this can be fixed in the future. I know WOW re-designed the whole world and cities in Cataclysm and Aion also had some graphical enhancements but i'm not sure if it's doable in FFXIV due to the engine not being very flexible.

[Shikaree]

I'm not too familiar with video game development but i hope all this can be fixed in the future. I know WOW re-designed the whole world and cities in Cataclysm and Aion also had some graphical enhancements but i'm not sure if it's doable in FFXIV due to the engine not being very flexible.

That we'd have to see on. They didn't touch the FFXI towns in the 9 years the game has been out, and only added minor things/objects to pre-existing zones (and started to just reuse areas instead).