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

[Jennestia]

Has anyone even watched the gameplay viideo of FFvXIII? It is the same engine, and it shows it properly used, it is all on the development team on how they use the tools given to them. The Crystal Tools engine is not bad.

People know the CT engine is fine, but they wouldn't have an argument if they admitted it. It is more of a cinematic engine than gameplay engine but it does get the job done with a higher focus on cinematics. XIV is an MMO and any engine thats just "online friendly" needs a lot of tweaking and plugins developed for it, XIV isn't properly optimized is the main issue. Next issue is design of certain things which was clearly not meant to be used on this engine, which again goes back to poor optimization.

[Dargoth_Draconia]

Lol at the PS3 remark, the PS3 is an amazing piece of gaming technology yet people will slander it. Ignorant people will always be ignorant and to them ignorance is bliss. The Engine isn't the best but it the problems fell on Tanaka who just didn't deliver with the system tools he and his team had. The game is constantly getting better with Yoshi-P's team and they are using the same thing Tanaka had. Last thing they need is Korean devs, majority of the Korean MMOs are bland and boring and repetitive and only one will shine every 5+ year period. Western part of the world is starting to take over RPG and MMO market while the Korean/Japanese are starting to fall behind but games like GW2 will do great because GW one was a formula that worked and all they have to do is improve upon it.

[Xmbei]

I would like to see the FFvXIII combat system in XIV, heck it even has jumping..... like oh there is a bench I can jump over it not run around it to get to that behemoth.... Also its quick paced, and looks like a lot of fun, the only problem is I think a lot of people doing that won't necessarily overload much but could be just crazy on the screen and pacing with multiple players doing it, but if optimized would be perfect. imo...

[Kurokikaze]

That will never happen. As much as I would like it.

[Nuru]

I would like to see the FFvXIII combat system in XIV, heck it even has jumping..... like oh there is a bench I can jump over it not run around it to get to that behemoth.... Also its quick paced, and looks like a lot of fun, the only problem is I think a lot of people doing that won't necessarily overload much but could be just crazy on the screen and pacing with multiple players doing it, but if optimized would be perfect. imo...

A battle system like that would be really awesome, but its most likely not going to happen with FFXIV, because that would ruin the concept of playing strategically. I await to see the battle changes that are yet to come.

[rainfish]

Wow Blade and Soul is coming out for PC, PS3 and Xbox? I thought the only save for XIV was PS3 cause they would have no competition but unless Blade and Soul takes years past XIV PS3 release it's going to be as rough there as it was for it on PC.

[Xmbei]

The sad part about that is I bet B&S will hit the same wall all mmo's hit with Xbox, Microsoft whats their cut, so it would be expensive for x360 players to play it. It's why all those MMO's initially said for X360 release never occured...

[Nuru]

Wow Blade and Soul is coming out for PC, PS3 and Xbox? I thought the only save for XIV was PS3 cause they would have no competition but unless Blade and Soul takes years past XIV PS3 release it's going to be as rough there as it was for it on PC.

Cool story bro. Good luck to them trying to port to XBOX 360 if they have their own paid sub. :P

[Jennestia]

Wow Blade and Soul is coming out for PC, PS3 and Xbox? I thought the only save for XIV was PS3 cause they would have no competition but unless Blade and Soul takes years past XIV PS3 release it's going to be as rough there as it was for it on PC.

It's still a korean game, so there's a good possibility that majority of Japan will likely choose XIV especially if its released first, there's still quite a bit of people who are waiting for the PS3 release of this game. A lot of korean games look fun and have good concepts, but they all inevitably have the same pitfalls..especially ncsoft games.

[Nuru]

Most Korean MMOs have some sort of scheme. One game is released after another because certain developers just have no idea how to build up on any of these games. The reason why FFXI and WoW have survived this long is because these games were built on, with a strong beginning and strong new content.

I've played Aion long enough to get to 20, and i feel as if it should be a free-to-play game because it really isn't any more satisfying than Perfect World International, and that game is free to play. So why should i be paying $16 a month for a game that is just like 15+ other free to play MMORPGs?

At least FFXIV was promising enough to show me something different, and what it is capable of. Blade and Soul may be pretty, but despite the graphics, its probably the next Aion, or other Free to play games.