Quote Originally Posted by Delsus View Post
The cities have alot more to load than towns, I stutter when I first log in in cities, but after about 2-5 mins the stuttering stops because the data has loaded into RAM, with me its because there is so much data to load a city in to RAM and a standard HDD doesnt have the transfer rates to load it all in time
I understand this. I know the towns are not going to have the problems cities do. However this is a problem even in cities that aren't populated, so this isn't strictly a population (at least of PCs) issue. Limsa gives me more problems than Gridania, but I'm guessing that's because more stuff is cluttered together in Limsa so it all has to load at once.

The stuttering DOES get better once everything in the city has loaded, but there is some very poor optimization problems with Crystal Tools in this case. Sure, we can all get SSDs to go along with our expensive PCs just to run this horribly optimized game, but my point is that this is going to turn even more people off to the game that either do not have a PS3 to play on or they don't have tons of money to spend on even more stuff beyond the recommended specs.

Let's think about this. If PCs are having problems with not being able to load data fast enough, how in the world is the PS3 going to be able to play this game? PCs exceed what the PS3 can do, and while Crystal Tools is better optimized for the PS3, I'm a bit worried that we are seeing this much stuttering on hardware which far surpasses a PS3. To stay on topic, adding even more models to load, Chocobos, is really going to just make the issue worse. Sure, PC players can keep sinking money into new hardware, but PS3 users cannot. Insert the obligatory "lol PS3 limitations" here.

If I recall correctly, chocobos had different models in XI based on what race was riding them. For example, a Galka's choco was larger than a Taru's. I can't remember 100%, but I believe that was the case. Factor in this and then the possibility of adding different colors of chocobos, or different mounts all together, and I just don't see how allowing mounts in cities in this resource-hog of a game is going to go over well.