developers frogot.

[indira]

it showing game developers forgot how to make game in this my technology has bigger stats than yours era of gaming.
everything is a clone of something else. now when you play a game everything is the same down to the buttons & interface.

i think its all the proprietary tools that are out there is making them lazy since it cuts down on work and they forget the fundamentals of there trade since they dont have to think hard anymore just cut and paste. even with all the tools they get bigger time frames and only have to do half the work with that they frogot how to design a game and turn ideas into gameplay.

[Colino]

what am I reading?

[Mug]

The developers said they were sorry and sent me this card -> Clicky!

[Neptune]

i agree. if anything, ffxiv's launch shows that players want gameplay over graphics.

[Jennestia]

As a developer I'd like to know where your information is coming from lol. There is nothing cutting down our development time beyond needing to do basic infrastructure that engines take care of these days, e.g we no longer need to program a custom camera view point as they now come prebuilt in various setups.

XIV is a badly optimized rush job, that's it.

[Chrees]

The developers said they were sorry and sent me this card -> Clicky!

I spent like a good minute laughing at this. Thank you for that.

[viion]

As a developer I'd like to know where your information is coming from lol. There is nothing cutting down our development time beyond needing to do basic infrastructure that engines take care of these days, e.g we no longer need to program a custom camera view point as they now come prebuilt in various setups.

XIV is a badly optimized rush job, that's it.

But the engine was still being built while XIV was, and is still as of now lacks many features.

[Jennestia]

But the engine was still being built while XIV was, and is still as of now lacks many features.

XIII and Versus XIII seems otherwise. XIV lacks features because it was rushed out and they wanted to make the game as different from XI as possible which included throwing out even the basics, you can't begin building a game before even the engine is near complete, XIV's development picked up around 2007, XIII was moved to the white engine/crystal tools around 2008 and finally finished in 2009, if you seen Versus XIII footage, it shows that it has features previous CT games didn't and it's been in development same time as well.

XIV as said, is an unoptimized rush job, design wise they decided to go against XI instead of build off of XI which was the main problem. It didn't have to be a clone, but every MMO out today builds off of some kind of base.

[viion]

XIII and Versus XIII seems otherwise. XIV lacks features because it was rushed out and they wanted to make the game as different from XI as possible which included throwing out even the basics, you can't begin building a game before even the engine is near complete, XIV's development picked up around 2007, XIII was moved to the white engine/crystal tools around 2008 and finally finished in 2009, if you seen Versus XIII footage, it shows that it has features previous CT games didn't and it's been in development same time as well.

XIV as said, is an unoptimized rush job, design wise they decided to go against XI instead of build off of XI which was the main problem. It didn't have to be a clone, but every MMO out today builds off of some kind of base.

I think you missed my point. I was talking about the engine, lacking many features. Not XIV or any other game on CT.

[gifthorse]

XIV as said, is an unoptimized rush job, design wise they decided to go against XI instead of build off of XI which was the main problem. It didn't have to be a clone, but every MMO out today builds off of some kind of base.

I can agree with rush job, but FFXIV built off of classic MMOs like Ultima Online and Lineage as a base, and kept some similarities to FFXI like quest structure, world structure (3 starting cities and a fourth friendly city), similar battle dynamics ("holy trinity"), and races.

One day I hope to read one of your posts that doesnt end with "FFXIV strayed too far away from FFXI and that was their problem."

If anything, their problem was not straying away more.