The new concept screenshot is a real-time in-game render!

[ellohwell]

Is there any way to perma-lock scroll lock? I'd love to play that way.

I need this function in my life!

I try to play with /names off as much as possible until I become a liability to my PT. I hope the new UI helps people to play with names off.

I just hope they make a UI which i can toggle off. The best UI for me is one which I can't see, imo.

[Volsung]

I like it, the UI looks very lively, and I probably wont be using additional apps, that looks like all I'll need.

As for graphics, I hope they do a good job optimizing! Cause its very pretty (textures and lighting can be misleading though)

[Kazai]

The T1, A2 can't be limit break related, if you look T1s(tank) TP you'll see the its around 1500 but the red bar is full. I'm pretty sure the red bars next to names is the hate meter/gauge

[Zenaku]

I kind of agree. FFXIV at the moment is really subtle.

I look around the camps and hamlets and see peasants dressed in rags and old-fashioned attire, and I hope that degree of unassuming fantasy isn't lost when they try to make this game a flamboyant wreck just to appease the players that wanted "moar colours".

I mean, I'd hate to see those people's wardrobes, is all I'm trying to say.

Sometimes muted subtlety is better than flamboyant colours. (sometimes=always). I just hope they don't compromise the artistic integrity of the game in the process of trying to revamp it. There's a reason I won't be playing TERA (even though I think the combat system is a huge step forward for MMOs).

Ya i agree with you 100% They should not try and add colors just for the sake of other players who like it. At the very least allow us to change the look of the game and have something close to FFXIV 1.0 and players who want more of a tera,aion feel can change the setting for more of a 2.0 feel.

[Akira_Tenshi]

I don't really like that Square is supporting addons with V2. If you play WoW you will know it's all just about who does the most damage, people spamming DPS meters all the time and if you come out on bottom you are sometimes kicked out of a group, even if you are having a good run and nobody has died if you aren't doing amazing dps you are a "noob".You are expected to download addons to join raid groups. I prefer to play a game as the developers intended I do not care for player made addons.


There is also the fact that PS3 players wont even be able to use addons so I don't think it is fair. I worry that this will separate players.

[viion]

i didnt think it wasnt realtime, its not exactly insanely impressive when comparing it to graphics these days.

[nibelunc]

I have one more very important thing to say to this screenshot. The target "selector hand". I love it. I want them to implement it with 1.20.

This is more Final Fantasy than anything other on the screenshot. Okay this and the chocobo.
With that said, make it more FF than into any other MMORPG. This is very important for FFXIV.

[Shipp]

God, any change always sends the regular crowd into the, "NO, it's becoming WoW!!!!" panic mode. It looks nothing like WoW. It looks nothing like Tera. By the way, Tu'lia was so realistic, along with Lumoria, right? Oh, and how about Promyvions? Those were realistic too! No, actually, they weren't. Big floating islands in the sky is not realistic, yet FFXI had them. Huge crystals sparkling and floating are not realistic, yet both XI and XIV have had them, along with a ton of other FF games. A zone that looked like the artist was tripping on acid while watching the Frieza saga of DBZ was not realistic, yet it was in XI.

Some of you people need to get over your WoW-phobia. I have never seen another MMO's playerbase freak out as much as FFXI/V's. Realistic and boring terrain hasn't worked out so good with XIV. Now they're changing it to be more like XI's and it's suddenly "like WoW?" Please. A lot of those concept pictures remind me of XI areas, not even one reminds me of WoW. I don't know how any can look at that main new concept picture and get WoW.

As has been stated, WoW's UI is fully customizable with the use of add-ons. The picture linked earlier in this thread was one of the worst UIs I have ever seen. You can choose how much you want shown on your screen or what you want hidden. You don't even have to have the standard party frames, you can have a healing add-on that shows the party's HP in little boxes smaller than the "Top" button at the bottom of this page.

Seriously, just stop the WoW-phobia, the game is not turning into WoW.

[Betelgeuzah]

i didnt think it wasnt realtime, its not exactly insanely impressive when comparing it to graphics these days.

I'd like to know what games you play "these days". Especially considering MMO graphics lag behind single player game graphics more often than not.

Further, very rarely do multiplat games use full power of new pc hardware and even rarer is that pc only games do so. The only thing making that pic worse than the screens in witcher 2 is the lack of tesselation, and that is coming post-release as well.

The graphics are incredible if they can retain the quality in that pic. Mind-blowing, nothing less.

[Akira_Tenshi]

I'm aware FF XIV is and always will be a very different game to WoW. Someone will make a DPS meter addon though and then it all just gets so competetive. Players should be working together not arguing over who is doing the most damage. Maybe it wont turn out like that. WoW has the worst community of players I have ever seen in an MMO and luckily FF XIV's community is nowhere near as rude or aggressive so hopefully it stays that way.