Consoles are holding this game back (graphically)

[Imoen]

Didn't 1.0 have 13,000 polygon flower pots in Ul'dah? Or was it 3000? Same thing. Pretty sure it had 3 somewhere.

E: Of course it's mentioned in the next post I didn't read.

1k isn't even that much lol. I think the shader was the larger example lol

[MilesSaintboroguh]

1k isn't even that much lol. I think the shader was the larger example lol

Except that's unneeded resources on an object people will never really look at more than once or up close. Add up several more of those flowerpot shenanigans and you got one big unoptimized mess. No one is blaming the flowerpots only. Said pot is just a leading example.

[DragonSlayer45]

Except that's unneeded resources on an object people will never really look at more than once or up close. Add up several more of those flowerpot shenanigans and you got one big unoptimized mess. No one is blaming the flowerpots only. Said pot is just a leading example.

To add to this, 1.0 had an engine that wasn't optimized at all to handle an MMO. They used Crystal Tools, the same engine used to handle the FFXIII games, and was primarily designed as a cutscene engine. In other words, someone at SE goofed up. No wonder PCs couldn't handle it.