Quote Originally Posted by Franzisca View Post
The graphics in FFXIV are great for what they are, graphics of a MMO world, superior in this genre. While not being able to match texture details and effects of a modern single player fps game i think square enix' engine is amazing. You should also keep in mind this is a multi-platform title and not solely optimized for PC hardware - one reason why its already so demanding. Crystal Tools is build to be highly portable, they wanted to run the game on PC, Playstation 3, maybe Microsoft's Xbox360 at a later time and even Linux and Apple OSX clients are not out of question. If they add super realistic water reflections or whatsoever nobody could run it.
Guild Wars did it easily with water reflections on mid range hardware and intend on doing it again with Guild Wars 2. thats just a pc game i know but atm so is this.