FFXIV: Do you think Square Enix will put more money and resources into it?

[ApprenticeSmithy]

Honest question. With FFXIV popularity booming as of late, do you think Square Enix will actually put more money into it? Give Yoshi P and team more resources, staff and the like. I would really hope so. Just think of what they could do with more teams, resources and time! Improve Viera and Hrothgar, improve animations (Elezen run anyone?), be able to create more content easier, due to having more people to work on it. Improve textures maybe (HDTexture pack perhaps?).

What do you guys think? Will Square Enix actually do this, or do you think they'll just keep things the way they are? I really do hope they give the FFXIV team more people and resources and the like. They deserve it for all they've done.

[White_Wolf_X]

Will probably depend on if the popularity "boom" keeps going or not.

[Wavaryen]

Sadly money is not the issues the game is having right now. It is chip shortage, and just the state of the world.

[Puremallace]

Sadly money is not the issues the game is having right now. It is chip shortage, and just the state of the world.

FF14 is designed in a way to be self sustaining. They could stop development right now and we would always have 7 years of content to do in some way shape or form. The main issue is the console limitations placed on this MMO and the chip shortage issues.

[Ath192]

We need a game engine upgrade, with better graphics and way less technical limitations. New mmos coming out like pso2 new genesis and new world, ashes of creation are looking a lot more updated. We gotta keep up.

[ApprenticeSmithy]

Sadly money is not the issues the game is having right now. It is chip shortage, and just the state of the world.

We need a game engine upgrade, with better graphics and way less technical limitations. New mmos coming out like pso2 new genesis and new world, ashes of creation are looking a lot more updated. We gotta keep up.

Ah... That would be a problem.

Hmmm, perhaps they could do what they did with PSO2 and it's new genesis?

Finish the story of Hydaelyn and Zodiark, then when the players travels to the 'New world' (as we've been told we'll eventually go to) that could be a good excuse to use an upgraded engine and the like. I can only make speculation though. I have no inkling on how such things would work to be honest... T_T

I *suppose* they could simply upgrade the engine via a new patch, could that really work? I don't think it could... Hmmm....

[Assirra]

We need a game engine upgrade, with better graphics and way less technical limitations. New mmos coming out like pso2 new genesis and new world, ashes of creation are looking a lot more updated. We gotta keep up.

I do hope you mean update as in "add stuff to it" and not upgrade as in "move the whole thing to another engine" cause the 2nd one would require remaking the whole game from scratch (again since that is what happened after 1.x).

[Caitlyn]

We need a game engine upgrade, with better graphics and way less technical limitations. New mmos coming out like pso2 new genesis and new world, ashes of creation are looking a lot more updated. We gotta keep up.

The graphics are totally fine. If you want more fancy effects, use reshade. But no need to change the engine. Better graphics are not making a better game.

I would give the Creative Business Unit III the time, money and other resources to rework old systems like the glamour, housing, items and PvP. Maybe continue older content like the grand companies, squadrons, monster log, veteran rewards and novice hall.

And remove mentors xD

[Ath192]

The graphics are totally fine. If you want more fancy effects, use reshade. But no need to change the engine. Better graphics are not making a better game.

I would give the Creative Business Unit III the time, money and other resources to rework old systems like the glamour, housing, items and PvP. Maybe continue older content like the grand companies, squadrons, monster log, veteran rewards and novice hall.

And remove mentors xD

We shouldn't depend on filters and third party tools to get a better look but that's not the only issue, reworking the game at that level would fix all the fundamental issues this game has like allow a trans mog instead of a limited glamour system, and I know you want to virtue signal and seem considerate of the creators and company but every problem this game has is tied to its horrible engine. Even Yoshi P doesn't like it and has expressed a desire to upgrade it.

So then why are you defending and even encouraging that the company doesn't do anything about it? Everyone knows its bad and even the people who work on it don't like it. This also doesn't have to come at the expense of working devs to death. While they could certainly go that route they could also simply expand their departments so that they can get more done and still give their employees good work life balance and weeks vacation.

People making excuses for the game are actively holding it back.

[Alexandre_Noireau]

The graphics are totally fine. Better graphics are not making a better game.

But they do.

Graphics of XIV are not totally fine: Lowres textures actually hurt some of the amazings designs this game has to offer and take many players out of immersion by blocky pixalated textures, or even devious ones (trailer metallic DRG armor of heavensward vs leather, wet cardboard in game one).
The shadows on this game, i have to stand for a good while for the shadows of trees to become somewhat sharp, while interior shadows are blocky messes.
I play at 1080p so maybe i've got it all wrong because in 4k might not be much of an issue, but not having a proper anti-aliasing solution also is a bad thing.

Let's stop thinking graphics don't matter in videogames, they are in the name videogames.

Well, this thing ran on PS3 somehow too... But there is a reason why most players use some form of third party filter.