Lackluster Graphics in FFXIV

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@ the OP:

The reason why FFXIV's graphics aren't as good as a single-player game's graphics is because it's an MMO. An MMO requires loading large numbers of character models in addition to scenery in a timely fashion that won't drag down FPS. You would have to have pretty much the best computer on the market to run a game that looked like crysis and had multiple people running around. It just can't be done without lowering some other aspects of the game, whether it be repeating textures or lowering poly-count of player models and scenery.

That's not entirely true. Many MMO's are being developed on Cryengine 3 and Unreal and maintain a good level of quality. ArcheAge, Blade & Soul, TERA,and an unamed MMO from CHangyou are some examples of games with excellent graphics. Maybe they aren't to the standard of Crysis as a single player game but they are on par with FFXIV I would say. The engines I mentioned above are also much more stable and run more efficiently than Crystal Tools does. I don't know if you've seen any videos for those games but they don't suffer the same problems as FFXIV do and also have seemless environments and can be run on computers with lower specs than the minimum for FFXIV.

I like the graphical style of FFXIV but the quality of the engine is not so great.