Is it too late to make the world in FFXIV seamless?

[WHS]

@OP , speaking as someone who would love to see seamless world back. I know that they will never do it with this game. Even if ps3 support does drop and they do buy better servers still, it will never happen. I guess if it was a big issue for me I would quite and go play another game. So far it hasn't been a complete deal breaker but it is heart sickening to know it will never happen. That's how much I love and appreciate a open world that is seamless. My guess is as we see more and more mobile games from them and other companies this will become our norm these days. I blame it on instant gratification cause a truly open world does not make anything instant for many folks.

[Magis]

People are talking too much about graphics, and not enough about optimization. You can have an amazing looking game and still run it on average hardware, it just matters how well the software is optimized to work. With the rushing and way too early release of FFXIV 1.0, of course it was going to chug cause the software wasn't optimized, let alone for PC systems (remember this was the Crystal Tools, something design for PS3 games).

I'd say this though, whatever LoD algorithms SE was doing on 1.0, it was damn impressive. You'd look at an island in the distance and that island was a real place, not a low-poly model (well, thanks to the LoD algorithm, it was low poly in that instance but I digress) or 2D billboard like ARR uses.