developers frogot.

[Jennestia]

Perhaps its wasn't rushed SE just expected its community to be stupid and naive, all is as intended.

Nah, it was rushed lol. There's a lot of "fresh from the dev room" errors that were present which they admitted they spent a lot more time debugging the game itself than developing for it. Like I said, remember the time frame iit was released and the lack of major titles for SE at the time, they pushed it out to try to push their revenue etc.

It backfired.

[Joeking]

Nah, it was rushed lol. There's a lot of "fresh from the dev room" errors that were present which they admitted they spent a lot more time debugging the game itself than developing for it. Like I said, remember the time frame iit was released and the lack of major titles for SE at the time, they pushed it out to try to push their revenue etc.

It backfired.

Perhaps.. hmm... Lets just tell the story our individual ways, my theory is more exciting!

[Neptune]

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.

Amen brother gifthorse.

[viion]

Do you have experience programming in Crystal Tools? Please with your vast experience, also including professional references in using this system to program; explain what features the program does not allow for. Is the Client badly optimized and can that be fixed yes, but please you never used the engine before so don't spread rumors as to what it can and cannot do.

huh? What does "Programming in Crystal Tools" mean? You dont program in it, its an engine, it will use a typical embeded scripting language (i doubt its own right now).

You can also find the list of features online which have been published by SE.

Why dont you check the lists and look at what it lacks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Tools
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CryEngine_3
http://www.unrealengine.com/features

Crystal Tools has only been stable for little of 2years, much-much less than developers who focus on the engine, SE focus on trying to do to much.

[Sykora727]

More complaints of the obvious things being fixed and some exaggeration. This isn't thread constructive at all.

[Elexia]

Why dont you check the lists and look at what it lacks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Tools
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CryEngine_3
http://www.unrealengine.com/features

You also ignore the fact the features posted on CT are the FOCUS elements, at least read what you're trying to pass off as proof:

The engine was developed with the aims of being able to create advanced facial animations and to have a single 3D format throughout the company.

It's a graphically focused engine, it doesn't "lack" features as it's a supplemental engine. The only thing is XIV was DESIGNED with a lack of optimized and basic features because they wanted to make it different from XI as well as having a server side UI heavily limits what you can do.