Please make the Au Ra horns separate from the faces!

[Naunet]

The PS3 does have some memory limitations that need to be taken into account. So do a lot of PCs, especially some of the lower end ones.

PS3 has all of 256 MB of RAM. Even an old desktop still running XP has more memory than that. The minimum PC requirements to play this game are more than that. This is kind of off-topic from the intent of the thread, but I did want to point out that your plead toward lower end PCs is not really something that's an issue.

[Odysseus84]

What in the world are you talking about? The limitation they addressed had to do with their servers and the amount of data they can transfer between servers and clients before the whole system slows down too much. <snip for length>

This wasn't a pot shot at PS3s. I don't joke about outdated hardware. I've made bold the relevant information from your reply that proves my point. It's not their end that slows down, thus requiring less information to be sent, it's the Client's end. The PS3 has, based on today's standards, laughable processing speed and even more laughable memory; both of which are necessary for the client to be able to interpret all of the information their servers are sending them. So when SE talks about technical limitations, it isn't their million dollar, top of the line, from this decade, servers that are the weak link.

[Interstella]

Even an old desktop still running XP has more memory than that

Hahaa! You just described my PC!

Anyway, I too would like to be able to use different horn-styles on my Au Ra (You guys may call it tumour horn, but I see over-ear headphones ^^)

[Razima]

Didn't SE already mention that they aren't able to do this because limitations with data or somthing? :T I think they said if it were possible they would've done it to start with. It would've been pretty cool though. ~

[Selli]

Didn't SE already mention that they aren't able to do this because limitations with data or somthing? :T I think they said if it were possible they would've done it to start with. It would've been pretty cool though. ~

Yes, we discussed what was said in the live letter a few pages back after the news came out. And a couple of us decided to keep this thread somewhat relevant as long as the change was still desired among the community. We are stubborn like that.

[Soda]

I'd love to see this, I might pay for a race change to Au Ra *hint hint SE*

[Niwashi]

This wasn't a pot shot at PS3s. I don't joke about outdated hardware. I've made bold the relevant information from your reply that proves my point. It's not their end that slows down, thus requiring less information to be sent, it's the Client's end.

The PS3's weak point is RAM, not data transfer. (Actually, PS3 has better data transfer rates than PS4 does, judging by download speeds.) Any of the FFXIV clients can handle data transfer, provided that it's on an even half-way decent internet connection. They only have one feed to deal with. The servers are the ones trying to handle everyone's data at once, and that's where any increase in data is magnified exponentially with each character in the area. That exponential growth rate is what bogs down the system and it's something that only happens at the server's end.

(Plus, I LOLed at your reference to SE's "million dollar, top of the line" servers. SE had to work on a shoestring budget putting this game together after it's first version failed so dramatically. It's running on some crappy old servers. Now, by all reports the re-make is doing quite well for them, so hopefully that justifies the funding for some major hardware upgrades, but getting new servers bought, delivered, configured, installed, and cut over is a long term project even after funding gets approved. Maybe eventually they actually will get some top of the line servers in place, and if so that will ease up a lot of the restrictions in this game. There would still be a limit on the size of character data, but they could hopefully boost it up to a somewhat higher limit.)

[Niwashi]

Didn't SE already mention that they aren't able to do this because limitations with data or somthing?

Well, they said they cannot currently do it, due to some limitations in their core systems. Hopefully with some system upgrades, they'll eventually be able to, so we're keeping the topic alive so they know that once they have the capacity, this would be a good place to use some of it.

[Selli]

We are stubborn like that.

I mean really stubborn. Super duper stubborn. Bumping the thread by quoting oneself stubborn.

[Iromi]

Such a shame they can't do this now..I changed back to my midlander hyur coz I just can't stand how the horns are locked to the faces... D: