Quote Originally Posted by Abriael View Post
When the cryengine will be able to render a MMORPG game that looks even remotely overally better than FFXIV, then you'd have any ground about it's superiority. So far there's none, and even between future games, there's none that looks even nearly as good.
Here a MMORPG WIP (certainly "kingdoms")

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADtUxDjGnjQ (00:34 to 00:46)

Looks kinda cool isn't it ? (and even if you said it's downscaled, theres so much more shaders and effect.)
(and yeah, I know what you'll say : this is not the final product, it'll certainly not run like this with 1000 characters, so the graphics will be downscaled on final version. And you may be right. We can just wait and see...)

So finnaly, the only way we disagree, is that you think CTEngine is well optimised and me not. Like you, I really like FFXIV graphics (don't really like water, but water are animated refractive texture with normals and specular map, so if they improve it, it's obvious that it'll take a lot more on GPU and i'll will certainly/obviously ram.), but I just don't believe that it need a this huge GPU for just activate some little effect like ambiant occlusion or DoF.