Increase of Assets on maps

[Packetdancer]

To this day, a game of similar genre, Ark Survival Evolved is incredibly laggy and runs like it has a massive memory leak somewhere.

To be fair, that's because it does have a massive memory leak. (Actually, it has several massive memory leaks. I used to be an ARK mod author; I have seen things in that codebase... things that cannot be unseen.)

But I mean, I've seen more than one "How Buggy Is This Game" rating systems where the system is like "For a beta, this is better than many full releases." up through various levels like "Numerous bugs, but none show-stoppers." and so on, with the buggiest rating just being "ARK: Survival Evolved". I love that game, don't get me wrong, but I'm not 100% certain it's the best yardstick to measure anything by.

[kaynide]

To be fair, that's because it does have a massive memory leak. (Actually, it has several massive memory leaks. I used to be an ARK mod author; I have seen things in that codebase... things that cannot be unseen.)

But I mean, I've seen more than one "How Buggy Is This Game" rating systems where the system is like "For a beta, this is better than many full releases." up through various levels like "Numerous bugs, but none show-stoppers." and so on, with the buggiest rating just being "ARK: Survival Evolved". I love that game, don't get me wrong, but I'm not 100% certain it's the best yardstick to measure anything by.

Agreed! Love the game, but man what a hot mess.

But that said (and to others), this is why it's important to keep in mind when you say "well X game did Y, so why can't FFXIV?"
There's a good chance FFXIV can, and there's a good chance the code that needs editing to make Y work is Ark levels of borked.