ARR Recommended Requirements?

[Delsus]

I think figuring out the specific video card that meets the recommended requirements is the least of SE's priorities right now.

Not really because people who want to play on max settings with no lag need this information, seeing a top of the range card under recommended (and I mean absolutely top of the range) could put people off, especially people who swear by AMD.

[Pseudopsia]

Not really because people who want to play on max settings with no lag need this information, seeing a top of the range card under recommended (and I mean absolutely top of the range) could put people off, especially people who swear by AMD.

For beta I don't think so. These are rough beta requirements, not official release requirements.
"[Windows PC Beta Test Requirements]"
"* Please note that these requirements may change for the final release version"


If you want to go back to Alpha test they didn't even list any AMD GPUs:
http://entry.ffxiv.com/alpha/index_na.html

This thread is seriously making a big deal out of nothing. It would be serious if this was official release requirements.

[Delsus]

For beta I don't think so. These are rough beta requirements, not official release requirements.
"[Windows PC Beta Test Requirements]"
"* Please note that these requirements may change for the final release version"

I know this, I'm just saying if these do turn out to be the release requirements, it could turn people off, as people have already stated the Radeon HD 7979 and GTX 5xx series are lightyears apart in performance, whilst yes it could be that they have no AMD test box so have that there to get feedback, but with a company as large as SE it seems unlikely this is the case.

[Bitty]

SE might want to reference the following:Tom's Hardware graphics cards hierarchy chart

GTX5xx covers ALOT of ground.