Quote Originally Posted by Elkwood View Post
I am trying very hard not to retort to you in this response, I did not like the patch that is my opinion and we will leave it at that.

The team has mentioned MULTIPLE times that Crystal Tools is responsible for the current state of the game. "Due to the coding engine we are unable to add X feature" Crystal tools is fine for PS3 I am sure but it absolutely BLOWS with MMO and PC and that absolutely shows as well. The zones are not exactly seemless the loadtime is exponentially reduced i will give it that. you can see it loading for a quick second or 2 when you cross zonelines and are unable to examine players and such that is still loadtime.

So according to the devteam, BTW I am not going back through all the posts to prove this, because of Crystal Tools

Server coding is messed up
Cannot Add AH
Cannot add mail
Cannot Fix Linkshell issues
Cannot fix lag on servers or client
Cannot make the game run on PS3 properly
Cannot fix AO
Cannot make it run fullscreen with alt tab because of it being DX9 (BTW that one is my favorite)

In short they cannot fix the game

If they could have optimized the game by now they would have but the engine it is developed on is so jacked up they are unable to do so. You do not recode a game on a new engine mid game after 6 years of development; it is a financial strain on anyone hence why they have 250+ employees now working on coding to fix this, and push the game over to a new engine.
I will not make it out to be as if I knew anything about programing. But how I understood, the issue is not the tool itself but how they programmed it. Except for Final Fantasy, square makes games for all platforms and they work inmensely well to my knowledge.