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  1. 01-06-2014 04:39 AM #1
    Teon
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    Quote Originally Posted by Alhanelem View Post
    Oh great, another "the areas aren't gigantic enough" thread.

    For ARR, they opted for smaller, more-well-crafted areas instead of having giant areas that required lots of reuse of textures and terrain chunks to make ("copy-pasta"). There's no point in having a giant area when you don't have enough assets and content to fill it with.
    You lost the point of this thread: we are wondering about why the actual, amazing designed, world is not a big single block without loading screen where you can see ppl running on capitals far miles from the gate, live.

    Tell me, didn't you dreamt ff14 was something like this too? Well it's not gonna happen with actual wallmart Pentium 2 servers, for sure
    And maybe never.
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  2. 01-06-2014 05:14 AM #2
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    Quote Originally Posted by Teon View Post
    You lost the point of this thread: we are wondering about why the actual, amazing designed, world is not a big single block without loading screen where you can see ppl running on capitals far miles from the gate, live.

    Tell me, didn't you dreamt ff14 was something like this too? Well it's not gonna happen with actual wallmart Pentium 2 servers, for sure
    And maybe never.
    1.0 just had really long, narrow hallways between zones that you had to walk through instead of loading screens. I wouldn't really say it was "better."

    The capitals being split up the way they are is annoying though, I will say.
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  3. 01-06-2014 05:30 AM #3
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    Quote Originally Posted by Teon View Post
    You lost the point of this thread: we are wondering about why the actual, amazing designed, world is not a big single block without loading screen where you can see ppl running on capitals far miles from the gate, live.
    I think it was explained with that "Final Fantasy feel" reason, so that when you enter a new area you get a little title card so you know you're in a new zone. And the blue dots that mark the zone line are kinda like FF12.

    And I think they recognized that some people hated all the running you had to do in 1.0, so they got rid of it.

    Also, probably PS3 limitations. I mean maybe it could've run it, but what about several expansions later? That's kind of what happened with FFXI and the PS2, it was fine until they added a million things. Maybe it's more future proof this way.
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  4. 01-06-2014 05:36 AM #4
    Teon
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fawkes View Post
    I think it was explained with that "Final Fantasy feel" reason, so that when you enter a new area you get a little title card so you know you're in a new zone. And the blue dots that mark the zone line are kinda like FF12.

    And I think they recognized that some people hated all the running you had to do in 1.0, so they got rid of it.

    Also, probably PS3 limitations. I mean maybe it could've run it, but what about several expansions later? That's kind of what happened with FFXI and the PS2, it was fine until they added a million things. Maybe it's more future proof this way.
    I doubt anyone hated the feeling of a real alive open world We hated copypasted trash over and over.
    This game on a single block would have been such an awesome gem, with a real feeling of an alive world, a real solid huge space to run or teleport watching people running up and down from capitals
    Obiouvsly requires better servers, way better coding, and no ps3 limitations haha
    Million things may be added like expand the actual world (on an imaginary single block) not ruining the game, when a designer do his work properly as they did. Our game just lack of a proper IT management imho
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  5. 01-06-2014 06:18 AM #5
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    Quote Originally Posted by Teon View Post
    I doubt anyone hated the feeling of a real alive open world We hated copypasted trash over and over.
    This game on a single block would have been such an awesome gem, with a real feeling of an alive world, a real solid huge space to run or teleport watching people running up and down from capitals
    Obiouvsly requires better servers, way better coding, and no ps3 limitations haha
    Million things may be added like expand the actual world (on an imaginary single block) not ruining the game, when a designer do his work properly as they did. Our game just lack of a proper IT management imho
    The world of 1.0 was NOT ALIVE. Good lord, what game did you all play?
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