Is most of FFXIV's failings due to their choice of engine?

[Elexia]

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Yeah, it's best to use it, otherwise you'll be having to read "justified" trolling for the rest of this game's life.

On topic though, the crystal tools isn't bad at all, since XIII ran flawlessly and we know how the graphics ended up and Versus XIII as well as "Type/Life Zero" as it's called, is looking and running even better than XIII did. It's not a pure gaming engine, but XIV is horribly optimized which comes with not only a server side interface, but also being rushed out. Compared to FFXI that utilizes the same features and on a custom engine as well, it would have behooved them to build off of XI's base.

So the engine isn't to blame, it's the general design, serverside interface (reason no one uses one) due to trying to prevent RMT and trying to ignore what their previous FF MMO accomplished as well as the fact their last major MMO, FMO, also was in top shape compared to this one.

[Sonic_the_Hedgehog]

So the engine isn't to blame, it's the general design, serverside interface (reason no one uses one) due to trying to prevent RMT and trying to ignore what their previous FF MMO accomplished as well as the fact their last major MMO, FMO, also was in top shape compared to this one.

I agree with this statement, you can tell that everything in this game revolved around stopping RMT.

[darkstarpoet1]

Then why can't you do the same? The only reason why you're still here is because you're upset that Yoshi-P is turning this game into something you don't want.

him and quite a few others. i don't like the direction this game seems to be going, but i am holding off bashing the direction until i see the direction it is actually going not where it seems to be going. looks can be deceiving so i will wait until i see more of a full landscape of the final direction.

[Sonic_the_Hedgehog]

him and quite a few others. i don't like the direction this game seems to be going, but i am holding off bashing the direction until i see the direction it is actually going not where it seems to be going. looks can be deceiving so i will wait until i see more of a full landscape of the final direction.

That's perfectly fine darkstarpoet1, that's more reasonable than most of the people that post on here. Instead of actually waiting and seeing this stuff in action they rather criticize what they think it's going to be.

[Jennestia]

him and quite a few others. i don't like the direction this game seems to be going, but i am holding off bashing the direction until i see the direction it is actually going not where it seems to be going. looks can be deceiving so i will wait until i see more of a full landscape of the final direction.

Yep, which is a very good outlook and seems to be rare among gamers these days.

[Captaindownsyndrome]

You know, for a 'voice of reason' , you are not very reasonable.

lol well said