Lackluster Graphics in FFXIV

[Quoc]

Practicality over eye candy.

[Meleena]

lol the character models look great, but thats not only issue here. Un-Game, Un-set, un-match lol. The character models aren't the whole game and 2 pics definately doesn't end anything.

Game-set-match
Cause you ppl actually TRY to hang on details to find a reason to bash the game instead of stop playing it.
If you're gonna complain about the water in FFXIV then Ill complain about the caracters in other MMOs.
If you're gonna complain about the shadows in FFXIV I'll complain about the lack of detail in about everything else in any other MMO.
You talk about details, I talked about major stuff like your whole damn character.

FFXIV lacks serious basic stuff like keyword search in retainers, or mounts, or mail system, or working stats, or working hate and battle system, or content for that matter and people like the OP worry about petty details that can be worked around after FFXIV starts making sence gameplay wise.

Do you really think that right now is the time for S-E to focus on these petty details and not in actual gameplay aspects?
I for one do not, and that's the main reason why I am completely against this topic.

In a few words: I don't give two s**** if they ever fix shadows or water, what's curently there works fine as long as they fix the stuff I already mentioned.

[BelgianRofl]

Game-set-match
Cause you ppl actually TRY to hang on details to find a reason to bash the game instead of stop playing it.
If you're gonna complain about the water in FFXIV then Ill complain about the caracters in other MMOs.
If you're gonna complain about the shadows in FFXIV I'll complain about the lack of detail in about everything else in any other MMO.
You talk about details, I talked about major stuff like your whole damn character.

FFXIV lacks serious basic stuff like keyword search in retainers, or mounts, or mail system, or working stats, or working hate and battle system, or content for that matter and people like the OP worry about petty details that can be worked around after FFXIV starts making sence gameplay wise.

Do you really think that right now is the time for S-E to focus on these petty details and not in actual gameplay aspects?
I for one do not, and that's the main reason why I am completely against this topic.

In a few words: I don't give two s**** if they ever fix shadows or water, what's curently there works fine as long as they fix the stuff I already mentioned.

Just because SUCK is the standard in MMOs, doesn't mean everyone has to settle for it. The technology is available. There's no reason SE couldn't implement it - especially if they had used a better game engine.

[BelgianRofl]

And what's with all you people giving me grief about comparing a 2010 MMO to single player games? Wave Race 64 released 15 years ago on a .064Ghz processor with 4 megabytes of ram... it had reflecting water...

[Martin]

And what's with all you people giving me grief about comparing a 2010 MMO to single player games? Wave Race 64 released 15 years ago on a .064Ghz processor with 4 megabytes of ram... it had reflecting water...

Stop double-posting plox - Why don't you guys end this nonsense?, what's the point of debating this kind of irrelevant topic of "Which game looks the most badass"? ATM for me FFXIV just looks FINE, and barely needs some graphical improvements, if you feel like argueing over this for the rest of your days, you're free to do so but do it in PM thanks (Spamming nonsense just to increase your post counts won't make you look any better guys ^^ )

[Zenaku]

And what's with all you people giving me grief about comparing a 2010 MMO to single player games? Wave Race 64 released 15 years ago on a .064Ghz processor with 4 megabytes of ram... it had reflecting water...

so your not complaining about the water but the reason it does not reflecting? i know i stop at a city and look at the water and though how awesome it is. Have you play the game at full setting with everything on? FFXIV look awesome on a nice 1080p TV on full setting i can't say that about Rift which just came out. Shadow in FFXIV on high setting does look better then on low setting i hate shadow so i leave that off.

They would add DX10 and DX11 later on for now deal with it.

[Janglo]

Game-set-match
Cause you ppl actually TRY to hang on details to find a reason to bash the game instead of stop playing it.
If you're gonna complain about the water in FFXIV then Ill complain about the caracters in other MMOs.
If you're gonna complain about the shadows in FFXIV I'll complain about the lack of detail in about everything else in any other MMO.
You talk about details, I talked about major stuff like your whole damn character.

FFXIV lacks serious basic stuff like keyword search in retainers, or mounts, or mail system, or working stats, or working hate and battle system, or content for that matter and people like the OP worry about petty details that can be worked around after FFXIV starts making sence gameplay wise.

Do you really think that right now is the time for S-E to focus on these petty details and not in actual gameplay aspects?
I for one do not, and that's the main reason why I am completely against this topic.

In a few words: I don't give two s**** if they ever fix shadows or water, what's curently there works fine as long as they fix the stuff I already mentioned.

lol you like that set match statement but its still not true. you hang out haning on to your opinion instead of helping the game develop in some easy to fix manners that shouldn't even be problems. How did you talk about whole character you just showed 2 screenshots. the other things you talk about are also problems. However what you see as petty is not my concern nor is your opinion of what I feel are problems a concern to me. Please stop calling me you people also lol. Also in a few words I dont give two s***** what you want them to fix first I just want to play a game that hasn't got such obvious graphical problems. They could have a real character model standing under a roof getting rained on and itll kill the immersion just as bad as red agro dots, etc.

[Zenaku]

You do understand if you play on low setting vs high you do see how good the game is? top of that it's working on DX9 for my understand SE said they update it in 5years or less take a chill pill the game still looks good for a mmo you can't compare to a offline game or -.- wow.

They made it dx9 so window xp can play the game for users who still play on that system. i'm guessing they update it when window 7 become more mainstream later on maybe the first Pack of the game. The game have no limit vs ffxi because they said they would update it for pc to dx10 and dx11 later on.

So at the end this is a pointless topic.

[Martin]

You do understand if you play on low setting vs high you do see how good the game is? top of that it's working on DX9 for my understand SE said they update it in 5years or less take a chill pill the game still looks good for a mmo you can't compare to a offline game or -.- wow.

They made it dx9 so window xp can play the game for users who still play on that system. i'm guessing they update it when window 7 become more mainstream later on maybe the first Pack of the game. The game have no limit vs ffxi because they said they would update it for pc to dx10 and dx11 later on.

So at the end this is a pointless topic.

Yup it is useless, so why don't we ask a mod to close it up?

[Zenaku]

Yup it is useless, so why don't we ask a mod to close it up?

Because i may find it a useless topic on something SE said base on the information of interview does not mean that others may find this a pointless topic. My point is that game look nice for a mmo, Rift look nice but i find FFXIV too look better on max setting. When they add dx10 and dx11 eyecandy the game would need a much better Video card which wont be out too 2-5years so it may be best to hold on it for now. top of that DX9 was best to allow window xp to play this game which it seem a lot of user are still using.