Is the water that bad?

[gifthorse]

That's funny... but you're right. The boat ride water is sub par compared to everything else....
It really does look like a Windows Media Player visualization.... hahaha...
And yet Shroud gets more hate than any zone...

While the water in Black Shroud is the least of the zone's worries, that doesn't necessarily make the water good. It's only good by comparison.

I mean, other games have such nicer looking water than FFXIV, even free games.

[Laughlyn]

id like to some more life inside the water, possibly the "Fish" type you can catch in it.
(or atleast some varity, dont want a shark swimming around in 2 inches of water do we...lol)

[Rankin]

In my opinion the only things that look good is the characters everything else is second rate no shadows casted water is flat and stale light passes through stuff characters do not stand properly on surfaces they sometimes float if the terrain is slanted its just crap