Questions and Feedback on the Future of FINAL FANTASY XIV

[Munba]

I would like to know some details about housing. Both the first implementation in february and the more complex one for the Free Companies with 2.0. Thanks.

[Soukyuu]

526 replies only three of which containing the question about Alt+Tabbing. You people need to step it up.

So, S-E, how about that? Alt, can you tab it?

YoshiP already said in an interview (don't remember which one) that they are going to fix it in 2.0
I doubt anything will happen before that.

[Fensfield]

YoshiP already said in an interview (don't remember which one) that they are going to fix it in 2.0
I doubt anything will happen before that.

It isn't really possible to fix it before that.

The Alt+Tab crash issue is caused by a deep flaw in how the engine and DirectX 9 talk to each other; it'd need a total overhaul of the code to fix it - which would be completely insane in the face of their replacing the entire graphics engine come v2.0.

[Soukyuu]

It isn't really possible to fix it before that.

The Alt+Tab crash issue is caused by a deep flaw in how the engine and DirectX 9 talk to each other; it'd need a total overhaul of the code to fix it

Actually, it wouldn't; All they have to do is handle the exception of losing the connection to the GPU - which they didn't do, except for showing us a useless dialogue of the exception occurring. It's not that hard to fix really, so I don't know why it wasn't fixed long time ago.

[stoned]

Actually, it wouldn't; All they have to do is handle the exception of losing the connection to the GPU - which they didn't do, except for showing us a useless dialogue of the exception occurring. It's not that hard to fix really, so I don't know why it wasn't fixed long time ago.

why fix something anything on the currant game? its pointless to even put effort into wasted content and obsolete software.

SE will you buy wows old servers and use them as a tempary fix for this broken crap? that should cut the clunkyness and lag down by 70%, and give u justifiable reason to charge for this game.

[corwynt]

When you introduce the new races (Male Miqo'te & Female Roegadyn), will you allow veteran player's characters' to change their races? Honestly, ive always wanted to be a Male Miqo'te and this is really exciting for me. Thank you.

[REDace0]

why fix something anything on the currant game? its pointless to even put effort into wasted content and obsolete software.

SE will you buy wows old servers and use them as a tempary fix for this broken crap? that should cut the clunkyness and lag down by 70%, and give u justifiable reason to charge for this game.

Unfortunately that's not how MMOs work. In addition to the hardware of the servers themselves, they have custom software running on them suited to the particular game. Hardware plays a role in FFXIVs performance, but based on interviews it's not the primary cause of the lag issues. Rather, the current server software itself does not perform efficiently. This is why the server program itself is being rebuilt from scratch for 2.0.

[Soukyuu]

why fix something anything on the currant game? its pointless to even put effort into wasted content and obsolete software.

Because the transition to 2.0 isn't going to just happen overnight after SE's devs wiggle with their fingers and swoosh, version jump. The code handling that exception should be universal enough to be incorporated into the final client update

[tteh3r]

Is there any plans to limit players to a number of class(s) including crafting classes. I only ask due to alot of players prefering having a limit on the number of crafts a player can take, as they believe it destroys the eco of the game, main reason i enjoy ff14 is not having any kind of class limits.