How good is the game engine of FFXIV?

[kikix12]

Can you imagine if/when a new type of wireless internet is developed so people across the globe have equal ping no matter how remote they might be located from the main server? Or how much more graphically realistic MMO's could look without bandwidth limitations? Gaming 100 years from now will probably be amazing.

It's not wireless, but there actually is the technology that allows much lower PING all around the globe. And it's also the same technology that have significant bandwidth potential, so much that used enough it would make even DDoS attacks irrelevant. It's called fiber optics. You're not going to get anything faster than light, after all.

It's just that the old technology is all around the world already, so it's "free" at this point. New technology costs. And a lot to boot. No one wants to invest billions of whatever currency only to be expected to "rent" their network to others for pennies, either (because that's the law), making the investment potentially impossible to return itself. That's part of the reason why you have ISP companies illegally coming to agreements on the regions they work in. So that they know their investments will pay for themselves with time.

The problem is that the countries leave technological advancement of that sort to individual, private-owned companies, while they should lay down the foundations for a new network with these companies only making the hubs and connections between these hubs and the overarching network. But, of course...it's more important to invest money in religions (which are among the richest companies in the world), election campaigns, new "business" cars for the politics to replace their last-years models etc.