shoddy work of squareenix

[ChloeGrace]

Dev time is a limited resource. You obviously have no idea what kind of effort goes into producing a game of this scale and quality.
I can guarantee 99.9% of players would rather have new playable content instead of glasses that fit perfectly on their toon's nose or hair that doesn't clip.
If you don't like it, cancel your sub and go play something else that suits your own personal taste in graphics.

[Alerion]

Dev time is a limited resource. You obviously have no idea what kind of effort goes into producing a game of this scale and quality.
I can guarantee 99.9% of players would rather have new playable content instead of glasses that fit perfectly on their toon's nose or hair that doesn't clip.
If you don't like it, cancel your sub and go play something else that suits your own personal taste in graphics.

I love it when people make up statistics on the spot as if they are simply fact. That aside, it's people like this with their blind zealotry and " they can do no wrong" attitude that plague online communities. No one is allowed to voice concerns or they'll be shot down. Just imagine if no one complained about 1.0 and just accepted it because you know, that's just the way it is. There is always room for improvement and I hope minor issues continue to get fixed.

[RaijinSupreme]

If we're gonna talk about graphics,



the fact that a game from 2004 has better summons than a game from 2013 upsets me much more than any of your examples.

You're saying that this is better than what we have now??

sure, dude.

[ChloeGrace]

Just imagine if no one complained about 1.0 and just accepted it...

But they didn't. It was so bad, many people unsubbed. It didn't fail because people bitched about it. ARR didn't happen because people bitched about it.

[Alerion]

I think you might have missed the point. Many of the things in ARR were due to feedback. Did you know there was a debate about whether jumping should or shouldn't exist in 2.0+? Yea, there was a whole group of people on the side of "it's just how it is, if you like jumping go play WoW" but many of us stayed with the game and combated such crappy feedback. Solid feedback gets things changed, saying that it's just the way things are and to deal with it or leave pretty much negates a reason for you to comment at all.

[DaikiKiyoshi]

I think you might have missed the point. Many of the things in ARR were due to feedback. Did you know there was a debate about whether jumping should or shouldn't exist in 2.0+? Yea, there was a whole group of people on the side of "it's just how it is, if you like jumping go play WoW" but many of us stayed with the game and combated such crappy feedback. Solid feedback gets things changed, saying that it's just the way things are and to deal with it or leave pretty much negates a reason for you to comment at all.

That's them voicing their own feedback that they want things to remain as they are.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

1.0 had more wrong with it then just graphics, which ultimately was SE upper management fault for pushing out the game too early, the 1.0 director was just the fall guy for it.

Yes and no. 1.0 had numerous design decisions that were inherently flawed from the get go. There are interviews with the dev team who outright laughed at the idea of adding something as simple as jumping because "it's not gonna be needed." SE's insistence on releasing it prematurely guaranteed the forthcoming financial disaster but Tanaka and Komoto share a large portion of the blame too.

[JunseiKei]

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As much as I hate Kotaku: This is worth the read.

Basically, FFXIV ARR was made for a wider audience (including PS3). Graphics will improve, but don't expect super crisp things.

[Xlantaa]

Any of us here knows how the game engine works? How many time they have to create content? How many time takes make a single object (and it is not modelling, also scripts programming, place in the world without causing bug, etc)? I think people in this forum just think developers sit in front of a computer and tell them "Do this" and magic do it. Things has a reason be like this. And performance is more important than graphics on a MMO.

Before complain because yes, just think that maybe there is a reason to be like this. it is not the same ask for a gameplay feature than complain about the graphic engine. Because the first one can be considered, the second one is a more complex thing.

[addz3]

If we're gonna talk about graphics,



the fact that a game from 2004 has better summons than a game from 2013 upsets me much more than any of your examples.

I hate to derail a thread but I have to say. How shite are the summons in FFXIV compared to XI... LOL! Every time I see something like this picture I just think to myself, wtf happened to Summoner....

I laugh. I cry. Then wait and wish for Beast Master....