FFXIV needs an update

[Snorky]

I absolutely love these wish lists from people who are clearly not engineers or software developers.

I have an idea. Let's just make the whole game better.

No I'm not going to elaborate just make everything better. better graphics more inventory less loading times faster internet. Yeah also Make the whole internet faster too.


What? dev work? technical limitations??? Minimum system requirements for older PCs?
Budget??? Manpower?
Deliberate design choices??
Screw all that just make it better.

^this all day

[Holystyle]

Why do you defend comapny?

As customer it is on them to improve product.
People like you is what stops them to push forward many of you are okay with status quo while meanwhile me cant unsee like there is 0 antialliasing which would be biggest noticeable graphical upgrade they could do.

[Vidu]

Why do you defend comapny?

As customer it is on them to improve product.
People like you is what stops them to push forward many of you are okay with status quo while meanwhile me cant unsee like there is 0 antialliasing which would be biggest noticeable graphical upgrade they could do.

Because I actually already like the product - and while updates to the graphics or small QoL-additions (like more inventory space, Viera hats/hairstyles or egi-glamour - to me those are all small QoL-additions, I ackonwledge that someone else might feel differently about some of them) would be nice, for me they dont warrant what OP is suggesting: No new actual content or maybe even access to the game for two years.

I like the game the way it is, believe it or not. Specially the graphics look absolutly fine to me (maybe because I also tend to play a lot of older games aswell). The trade off that would be needed simply isnt worth it to me.

[Halivel]

Why do you defend comapny?

As customer it is on them to improve product.
People like you is what stops them to push forward many of you are okay with status quo while meanwhile me cant unsee like there is 0 antialliasing which would be biggest noticeable graphical upgrade they could do.

Because some people have common sense and realise that behind product there are real living beings, not robots with magic powers. People these days love to cry how bad crunch culture in IT and game industry is, but as soon as it's about the game they play they turn into "What do you mean you can't do it right now? I WANT IT!!1!" kids.

People do ask for improvements (even in this thread alone several people voiced the wish to have better textures, which is probably the main thing the game currently needs, if there's any graphical update to do), they just try to stay reasonable in what they ask for, for the most part.

[Holystyle]

You think i am one of them xD.
And not my problem such companies and lack of employees laws lead to crunches.
Nope for me it is i give you money get me thing not more or less .

[MilkieTea]

You think i am one of them xD.
And not my problem such companies and lack of employees laws lead to crunches.
Nope for me it is i give you money get me thing not more or less .

And you're getting exactly what you pay for - access to the games servers and the game itself. Not more, not less.

[Assirra]

You think i am one of them xD.
And not my problem such companies and lack of employees laws lead to crunches.
Nope for me it is i give you money get me thing not more or less .

And that is exactly what you get so guess we are finished now.

[TaleraRistain]

I absolutely love these wish lists from people who are clearly not engineers or software developers.

I have an idea. Let's just make the whole game better.

No I'm not going to elaborate just make everything better. better graphics more inventory less loading times faster internet. Yeah also Make the whole internet faster too.


What? dev work? technical limitations??? Minimum system requirements for older PCs?
Budget??? Manpower?
Deliberate design choices??
Screw all that just make it better.

Especially the vagueness. "I'm not going to to give you any specific areas to look into tweaking, just fix it now!"

[Jeeqbit]

You are being extremely vague.

What is wrong with the engine? What is wrong with the servers? What is wrong with basic combat? What is wrong with raid design?

Housing has nothing to do with the engine but the fact that you have people next door means it requires a separate ward server for a certain amount of houses. To instance the housing, your house needs to be on its own, which is where apartments and rooms come in.

Redoing the game for additional sliders doesn't seem reasonable and loading screens are a design decision because 1.0 chose not to use them and it was a disaster. The loading screens don't really exist if you use an SSD.

[FawkesWyznfarr]

I absolutely love these wish lists from people who are clearly not engineers or software developers.

I have an idea. Let's just make the whole game better.

No I'm not going to elaborate just make everything better. better graphics more inventory less loading times faster internet. Yeah also Make the whole internet faster too.


What? dev work? technical limitations??? Minimum system requirements for older PCs?
Budget??? Manpower?
Deliberate design choices??
Screw all that just make it better.

I've seen what they can do. Stormblood comes to mind. It was a great compromise between having depth and streamlining some abilities. "Hey here's some mana," or "I've got your emnity handled". There's also the part where they made Paladin absolutely gorgeous to play.

But now that I'm typing this all out I realize something. The devs are only partial for the blame. It's the community. The ones who afk in Limsa, the ones who begged for a simple job, the ones who can't handle another resource other than their MP or damage, the ones who can't handle rng in an rng based job.
The community sucks. I've seen the truth, and it has seen me