Lackluster Graphics in FFXIV

[Abriael]

^0:43 of that video shows what a game will look like when it's low-poly, low-res textures, but has real shading

Without any character/mobile on an undisclosed system, from afar. Even WoW shown scenes that look as good/better than that, out of context.

It doesn't even compare to FFXIV.

[Wenceslas]

Without any character/mobile on an undisclosed system, from afar. Even WoW shown scenes that look as good/better than that, out of context.

It doesn't even compare to FFXIV.

That why I said "(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...)
"
And well.. theres no characters.. maybe cause it's a WIP. But here's not the subject.
I'm glad if you've understand that i'm not yelling that "FFIXV have horrible graphics" or stupids things like this.
I just think a little optimisation should let the dev add one or two more effect. Crystal tool is prefectly capable to do it.

[Abriael]

And well.. theres no characters.. maybe cause it's a WIP. But here's not the subject.
I'm glad if you've understand that i'm not yelling that "FFIXV have horrible graphics" or stupids things like this.
I just think a little optimisation should let the dev add one or two more effect. Crystal tool is prefectly capable to do it.

What I'm saying is not that the engine cannot be optimized further (NO engine cannot be optimized further, in fact we're running on a quite advanced version of the CTE compared to older games, as much as versions of every third party commercial engines continue to be released), What I'm saying is that the engine is much more optimized that people would say, and there's really no tools to state that it's not, as no other comparable game (MMORPG with the same graphical quality) has been released or even officially announced.

As I said before, it's very possible that the engine will be improved further down the line. It happens with every MMORPG out there (that has a decently active development), but this doesn't imply that the engine isn't as optimized as possible for the *current* time.

[Wenceslas]

What I'm saying is not that the engine cannot be optimized further (NO engine cannot be optimized further, in fact we're running on a quite advanced version of the CTE compared to older games, as much as versions of every third party commercial engines continue to be released), What I'm saying is that the engine is much more optimized that people would say, and there's really no tools to state that it's not, as no other comparable game (MMORPG with the same graphical quality) has been released or even officially announced.

As I said before, it's very possible that the engine will be improved further down the line. It happens with every MMORPG out there (that has a decently active development), but this doesn't imply that the engine isn't as optimized as possible for the *current* time.

Oh yeah. I agree with you.