No PS3 support? Does the mean fewer Loading Screens?

[AshlikeSnow]

Greetings,

I'm not really sure if ps3 support will end completely for XIV but now that we know for sure Stormblood will be for Windows and PS4 does this mean we can stop all these loading screens in ARR? XIV could have more sense of flow if for example the starting areas were seamless just like in the original game. The 3 capital cities stopped having their gates connect seamlessly to the outside world when ARR launched and ever since its just been loading screens connecting these areas. Ill include pictures from all three capital cities showing these areas below. Whether this is important I'll leave it up to the rest of you guys.

[Martin_Arcainess]

Old probs not but new ones yeah like the how flying is only in HW and newer zones.

[Mwynn]

having their gates connect seamlessly to the outside world

With repeating Textures and Textures, Textures, Textures, Textures ... Textures... Textures... Textures..

In case of the Objects on the Fields it went like this :

You see a Rock, move 20 Meters.. It's the same Rock, you move again, oh its the same Rock again... Oh damn again?! ... Oh there it is again...

1.0 was not on any Consoles, yet the Landscapes weren't nice either to an extend, it had flaws and lacked Detail, not to mention all the Copy & Paste.

Now's the Question for you :

Would you give up 1-2 Patches for that Feature above? They have to remodel every Map and connect them seamlessly given the Fact Weather has to be changed too and all different Features aswell.
This is no task to be done in a matter of one or two Days, it would take Months to do so.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Those long hallways, the bridge, and the sections between zones were essentially masked loading screens, you could see a person disappear when they went beyond the zone wall. It had the same effect as a loading screen, and the hallways were actually longer than it takes me to zone in the current game lol.

[Malzian]

Some days I wish I could erase the existence on 1.x from everyone's memories so people would stop asking to have things back from a game that failed for a variety of reasons, most of which are ironically the things people ask to have back.

[Vaer]

Doubt it. It would probably take a lot of work and QA to redo all the zones and connect them together. I mean they haven't even added flying to ARR areas yet.

[Enkidoh]

It's not going to change - SE broke up regions into individual zones and separated them by loading screens because players were complaining about 1.0's large empty environments that repeated the same landforms over and over again and were filled with long expanses of nothing, it was the price that was paid for having large zones. So SE gave players what they wanted in ARR with much smaller though more highly detailed zones with transitions broken by loading screens.

'PS3 limitations' had nothing to do with it (there are strong rumours that the actual PS3 version of 1.0 was actually complete and ready to go, but SE decided to abandon ever launching it due to the PC version's disastrous launch, and it became a moot point when the development team was changed, Yoshi took over and it was decided to replace 1.0 with ARR completely.).

Whether that is true or not I have no idea, but the PS3 version had been planned to launch a mere six months after the PC version did in March 2011. So it would have had to have been at least at an advanced stage of development to have such a planned launch date).

Either way, the abandonment of PS3 support for ARR will not suddenly make this game become Second Life with a FF skin, as much as certain players seem to want it to be.

[Roth_Trailfinder]

They will not be making major changes to ARR or to HW. This should be clear with their stated intention to bring PTW to the game via the "jump potions".

Anything built with "PS3 Limitations" in mind will remain pretty much as-is as long as the game lasts. They simply won't have to factor in "PS3 Limitations" for future expansions. Now, it will be alternating "Toaster PC Limitations" then after they get rid of the Toasters, it will be "PS4 Limitations".

And they are killing the PS3 client COMPLETELY. If anyone is still on PS3, they need to upgrade to PS4 or PC before Stormblood hits, or they will be giving up the game entirely.

[AshlikeSnow]

Lots of good points as to why ARR implemented these changes. But I still think that the game could benefit from these ignored areas. That bridge in Gridania is beautiful scenery right?

[Emerald_Swords]

Pick up an ssd or sshd and you'll wait less.