Direct X 10/11 Question - Answer (Translated)

[KaedrianLiang]

SE needs new young blood but that wont happen because of the japanese buisness culture.

The original FFXIV dev team was made up of new young blood, game designers fresh out of school, that proposed and implemented the battle and crafting systems you know today.

SE is just one of many Japanese companies that will fall behind western competition.

SE has resorted to buying out Western competitors, for instance Eidos Studios, the makers of Tomb Raider and Hitman.

[Adol]

While I have to admit that what they have managed to do with the game visually speaking with direct x 9 is impressive, it is the same kind of "impressive" I would attribute to someone building a to-scale skyscraper using single-block lego bricks.

[SilvertearRen]

This was posted in response to asking about support for DirectX 10 and DirectX 11, specifically. When taking into consideration the performance of the PlayStation 3 version, we currently have no plans of supporting DirectX 10/11. However, in the event that large changes or alterations take place to the graphics, or if DirectX 10/DirectX 11 continue to grow in popularity, we will begin to support them.

For your information, Square Enix, there are MMOs that already support DirectX 11 and they have a much lower "visual quality" standard than FFXIV does. Get your sh*t straight - there are absolutely no excuses for skipping out on DirectX 11 when the majority of PC video cards support it, with nearly every major Western game developer making the switch to full DirectX 11 support on their recent and upcoming titles.

[KaedrianLiang]

LAME console market...

Japanese people always develop their consoles even though it never better than PC

how could PS3 cost me 280 USD since it doesn't better than my PC?

curse you!! all of Japanese game companies except CAPC....

Japan had dominated and still has the largest share of the Console market. Developing the console market is in the best interest of Japan's gaming industry. PC hardware has been primarily dominated by Silicon Valley giants and Taiwan, Japan's gaming giants have a lot less to gain in the PC industry. Seriously how many units get sold for PC versions of offline FF's worldwide compared to their console counterpart?

PC versions of any game also open the door to hacking/pirating the game. Yeah consoles get hacked as well, but not nearly on the scale and ease as PC platform. (which we see a lot of right now in FFXIV)

It's actually common practice now, that console manufacturers lose money for every unit sold, it started with the original xbox, but its made up by misc hardware sales, royalties from licensing disc format to game developers and game sales.

Basing performance of a console on it's price is folly, but nonetheless PC hardware advances every quarter or so of the year. consoles are about every 4+ years.

[SilvertearRen]

Japan had dominated and still has the largest share of the Console market.

In Japan.

Internationally, they are in the crapper.

[Adol]

In Japan.

Internationally, they are in the crapper.

Nintendo

/10char

[SilvertearRen]

Nintendo

/10char

Whose "console games" are heavily populated with shovelware. I do not consider their shovelware titles to be part of a valid calculation.

Eliminate their shovelware from the mathematics, and their Wii and DS titles become about slightly less in volume to the Xbox and the PS3/PSP titles on the market.

[rainfish]

You guys are crazy, the PC version of this game is dead. The only reason it's still running at all is cause they are banking on the PS3 version being a success in Japan, as such why would they bother upgrading DX?

[SilvertearRen]

You guys are crazy, the PC version of this game is dead. The only reason it's still running at all is cause they are banking on the PS3 version being a success in Japan, as such why would they bother upgrading DX?

Because the next Playstation Generation will probably support DirectX 11. And if FFXIV ever gets both feet out of the grave, it will last long enough to see a re-release in the next console generation. So supporting DX11 now would be a good money-saving move in the long term.

[Warlyx]

DX10 and 11 will help a lot in performance and can use some of the nice things both have

Water in DX10/11 is amazing.....as particle effects , and shadows, seriusly is like night and day both in performance and quality.

No1 that plays FFXI use Wxp , and no1 that plays FFXIV uses a Dx9 card , (no supported)

the question here is why FFXIV is based around DX9 ....