Since you are spending resources on events

[captainpicard]

Would it be possible to spend some resources on bringing the games graphics into the current era?

Nothing in this game casts shadows except the player models. When you play this, then login to say, Age of Conan, 2 things are instantly apparent.

1. Age of Conan has awesome graphics. Everything casts shadows, godrays are there, you name it, its got all the perks you would expect from a modern graphics engine.
2. Age of Conan's world seems proportionally wrong after playing FF14. The buildings and so on seem too small, the world seems last "vast" in the visual sense than FF14.

When you play FF14, 2 things are instantly apparent.

1. FF14 has awesome graphics. The character models are top notch, best in show. The textures and graphics are generally superior to other MMOs. There is a total lack of effects like shadows, godrays, and other modern graphical 'perks' which renders all this beauty fairly lifeless and static.
2. FF14 world seems proportionally right, i.e. everything feels appropriately sized compared to many other MMOs I have played.

In short, although my preference would be for the dev's to stop rolling out summer events, new crafting systems, and other stuff that isn't really fixing the core issues with the game, if they are going to continue to put resources on these type of questionable value adds, could you please work on bringing the graphic effects into the current era?

Thx

[Antanias]

The team that does events are seperate from the ones working to fix this game. I believe this has been said more than once in previous threads.

[Felis]

Would it be possible to spend some resources on bringing the games graphics into the current era?

so you suggest to bring the event team, which know more about stories than graphics, in the graphic team to slow down the graphic team more?

[captainpicard]

And as I have said before, if you have any understanding of at all of how Corporate Enterprise project management works, then you realize that resources are finite. Period. Projects have a defined scope. Estimated cost, and so forth. That said, every "resource" that is working on these events, is a resource that is not working on fixing the game. So the old "separate team doing x" is just a drain on finite resources that could be doing y.

Let's not derail this thread with SE and Yoshi P fanboyism, can do no wrong, everything is okay, I drank the kool-aid nonsense please.

Its an honest question I pose.

[captainpicard]

so you suggest to bring the event team, which know more about stories than graphics, in the graphic team to slow down the graphic team more?

Actually if all the "event team" can do is "events" then I suggest downsizing them, and replacing them with people who can instead fix core issues with the game.

[Arcell]

And you think shadows are a core issue of the game? You think the crafting system isn't a core problem but you think shadows are? You think fixing all the transportation issues isn't a core problem but you think shadows are? lol, that's the most ridiculous thing I've heard all day.

The events have a positive effect on the community, a much greater effect than shadows would. People are already bored with the normal content, events give them little bits of things to do here and there. The more we have to do, the better even if it's for a few weeks.

Honestly before we even worry about shadows at all they need to fix the game's optimization problems. The game makes a lot of computers work a lot harder than they should rightfully have to. This is a bigger problem than shadows and in all likelihood a completely related one.

At this point I'm not sure if the OP is a troll but I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt here.

[captainpicard]

And you think shadows are a core issue of the game? You think the crafting system isn't a core problem but you think shadows are? You think fixing all the transportation issues isn't a core problem but you think shadows are? lol, that's the most ridiculous thing I've heard all day.

The events have a positive effect on the community, a much greater effect than shadows would. People are already bored with the normal content, events give them little bits of things to do here and there. The more we have to do, the better even if it's for a few weeks.

Honestly before we even worry about shadows at all they need to fix the game's optimization problems. The game makes a lot of computers work a lot harder than they should rightfully have to. This is a bigger problem than shadows and in all likelihood a completely related one.

At this point I'm not sure if the OP is a troll but I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt here.

Yes, I think that modernizing and optimizing the graphics engine is a core issue.
I also think that fixing the absurd lag in the game is a core issue.
I also think that not being able to kick someone from a LS unless they are standing next to you is a core issue.
I also think that not being able to change party leader if someone is out of range is a core issue.

I could rattle on about what I think are the core issues, but the end result would just be a obvious troll is troll comment from 100 other trolls.

The point is you cannot roof a house, without first building the foundation, the walls, and so on.

What it seems to me is happening here is we are getting a roof, without fixing the sinking foundation.

Its the LITTLE things that drive people crazy. A summer event is a distraction. It doesn't resolve the overall frustration derived from smaller things like just trying to use the interface, or use the market wards, or use the ls.

My point of this thread was - IF you are going to continue wasting time on things that aren't solving the REAL issues, the ones that cause people to rage quit, then would you please fix the graphics =)

[Chardrizard]

Yea i'd rather them put their resources into something else like the battle development team.. Shadows isnt gonna bring anybody back or making anybody leave.

[Petori]

I prefer doing events and have fun rather than sitting in front of my screen doing nothing.

[captainpicard]

I prefer doing events and have fun rather than sitting in front of my screen doing nothing.

I prefer having frustration free fun myself. That would not include events. It doesn't even include shadows. You have missed the entire point of this thread.