6 months to create ONE equipment set!?

[Cichy]

I'm tired of recolored gear, I dont even want to do the dungeons because the rewards itself just look like crap imo. It's ridiculous that there are maybe 10 different sets of gear across all the classes and everything else is recolor or reskin from those. FFXIV has the least gear options I've seen since XI was released in 2002.

[TirionCrey]

I'm tired of recolored gear, I dont even want to do the dungeons because the rewards itself just look like crap imo. It's ridiculous that there are maybe 10 different sets of gear across all the classes and everything else is recolor or reskin from those. FFXIV has the least gear options I've seen since XI was released in 2002.

Without Deflection you won't last long on the R50 dungeon anyway...

[Betelgeuzah]

Wow, so much stupid in one thread. Impressive.

They can release new models every month if they wanted to, all they have to do is start preparing them six months in advance. The logic that they can't start working on new models before the old ones have been implemented is absurd. Not to mention the logic that only one set can be created at time.

The only limiting factor here is money, plain and simple. The schedule doesn't matter once they've gotten started.

I bet these modeller amateurs have to work with movable characters and having to make the equipment fit with every existing piece of equipment. Six months is a Godly speed for one modeller to finish one set of gear. They have more modellers of course, but also seven new models to work on. Seven new models even in a year... It's a lot for any game.

It's ridiculous that there are maybe 10 different sets of gear across all the classes and everything else is recolor or reskin from those.

There are 17+ unique models as of today. No vanilla MMO has had much more than that, of the same quality.

[Dreamer]

There are 17+ unique models as of today. No vanilla MMO has had much more than that, of the same quality.

Everquest 2 has more than twice that number. Then again, they seem to have the same problem as FFXIV when it comes to gear variety....

[Preypacer]

Everquest 2 has more than twice that number. Then again, they seem to have the same problem as FFXIV when it comes to gear variety....

They may have more than twice that much now. However, in vanilla EQ2 (ie. after launch), which the post you replied to references, it didn't.

In fact, gear variety was one of the things that people complained about for a while in that game. I remember being pretty underwhelmed by it when I played as well. Several high end armor sets were literally reused models from a lower level set - not even re-skinned in some cases. People complained of being a level 50 character looking like a level 10.

Their armor was also not nearly as well detailed as FFXIV's nor was it nearly as modular.

[giftforce]

"it takes about 6 months to create one full set of equipment that maintains FFXIV's high standards of graphics."

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...712#post225712

Is this some kind of cruel joke, SE? Are you just mocking us with this statement?

I don't care what means you use to create equipment, 6 months is a ****ing joke and admitting this is an absolutely atrocious PR move if true...

One set of equipment is a vague term which could mean many things.

One set of equipment could mean:

Sabotons, Greaves, Cuirass, Tassets, Helmets etc in all difference metals (tiers) and all different colours, with several different embellishments and decorations. So that is like 100 different items or more.

6 months for 100 or more items doesn't seem so bad.

[miqokini]

One set of equipment is a vague term which could mean many things.

One set of equipment could mean:

Sabotons, Greaves, Cuirass, Tassets, Helmets etc in all difference metals (tiers) and all different colours, with several different embellishments and decorations. So that is like 100 different items or more.

6 months for 100 or more items doesn't seem so bad.

666 post count. Please leave my thread, Satan!

(j/k, of course)

[Cichy]

One set of equipment is a vague term which could mean many things.

One set of equipment could mean:

Sabotons, Greaves, Cuirass, Tassets, Helmets etc in all difference metals (tiers) and all different colours, with several different embellishments and decorations. So that is like 100 different items or more.

6 months for 100 or more items doesn't seem so bad.

It's just that after all reskinns and seeing absolutely nothing but a kabuto and a swimsuit people lose hope.

[miqokini]

It's just that after all reskinns and seeing absolutely nothing but a kabuto and a swimsuit people lose hope.

This. Soooooo sick of reskins. I don't even care about the dungeons because there is nothing cool and new to get. And, as you probably can guess from my name, I am a fan of the swimsuits. But come on, SE. Months and months of waiting and the only completely unique armor we get is a useless (gameplay-wise) swimsuit?

[Winterclaw]

So why can't square do something like daz's Genesis (google it if you don't know about it)? I'm not a fan of Gene myself (poser user) but something like this would cut down on their time. I'm surprised they don't have some sort of feature like this to shorten their development time.