Removal of loading screens

[Kaliesto]

It would be really cool to see all of 2.0 combined into one zone, but this will require some new transition areas and also have to take flying into account.

(personally it would be cool to fly high into the sky while looking down on all of 2.0).

Same goes for Heavensward, Stormblood, and Shadowbringers.

However I think that train left years ago, the game itself is about wrap up its main story and the devs. may not really have any real incentive to majorly redo some things.

[ElciaDeiLinus]

The Ps4 is perfectly capable of handling a full open world game like TESO or Black Desert Online.
So yes, if it was wanted it would have been done long ago.

TESO has the same zone transitions doesn't it? I could be wrong but afaik most mmos do the thing FFXIV does- TESO, GW2.

BDO sure has a big persistent world sort of like WoW... and it's masked by making you ride five minutes to get to another zone, there's numerous points where there's basically nothing between areas that have high pops (grinding spots or cities). I can't think of a game that is open world with no loading or masked loading.

WoW maybe- but there is loading between zones... and in areas where there are lots of players it either lags to a standstill or it phases people out- in retail people constantly complain about how the phasing causes nodes to vanish, players they're pvping against/playing alongside to vanish, mobs to vanish, etc... so sure, it's a 'persistent world' with no loads, but that's because it's constantly loading things in and out of the game to prevent load times/lag.

Would FFXIV players want to be heading to a fate, s hunt or a fight in Bozja only to have it vanish suddenly because they've been phased to prevent lag? Because that's how the big persistent WoW world is possible.

[TheMightyMollusk]

That's why I am drinking directly from the bottle.

These forums can have that effect on people.

[Shougun]

These forums can have that effect on people.

Drinking game where you can take a break each time a CM makes a post

[Gameovers]

Doubt it. They've denied many things due to server limitations or some other excuse. Otherwise this would have happened by now if it was going to.

Heeey... why you gotta throw my name in the mix D:

[Payadopa]

There's no point in removing loading screens when we just teleport everywhere. Removing loading screens wouldn't affect teleporting, it would affect walking from one zone to another which other than in a city, you only do while questing at the start of an expansion.

Even in a city, you can teleport around with the aethernet so we would still have loading screens. It's already been pointed out how fast teleporting actually is with an SSD, even by SE themselves who have a video of the load time on a PS5.

To be fair, I prefer walking unless I'm doing literally the same trip three times in a row. Teleportation takes me out of the world.