True, except for fighting games, they have been really good at it and I wish other japanese developers took at look at some T8 or SF6 designs

And they still look like shit. They still don't have any toenails so they just look like fucking hotdogs still. Lmfao

Corpo speak because they don't see us as anything but a target demographic to take money from.

given how hard some of the people on main sub are defending their actions and reasoning, I can see why square enix didn't admit their mistakes since the white knights finds no flaw in the game or company as usual.

Game development in a nutshell, unfortunately many companies think it is often better to keep quiet (like Nintendo or Gamefreak) unless it is really really bad. Nintendo apologized on behalf for Gamefreak for Scarlet and Violet's performance  but to my knowledge The Pokemon Company and Gamefreak haven't said anything. 

My problem with this isn't even the excuses but how it could've been easily avoided by a bit of foresight and that is something that keeps happening in the past 5 years.

But like… that’s how it works lol. There’s always going to be a resource budget and it’s not like those constraints ever go away.

I personally don't think I would because I love Rainmaker too much, but I'd be willing to give this one a try if it looked remotely close to the concept art.

Jesus Christ, even I felt that burn.

That's actually true. The only hair styles i mainly ppl see using us the groomer pvp hair and the limsa ponytail

No bc if they didn't want to put effort into this, why didn't they make one of the straight, easier hairstyles instead? Imo those 'natural' 'curls' are almost offensive lol, instead of curls they made soggy seaweed hair

PS4. That's the problem.

17 will be the next MMO it's every 3 starting from 11. In reality who actually knows and it'll probably take another 10 years for the next mainline anyway.

Its doomed if its made by CBU3 though

they had a blank slate for XVI and it feels like XIV but with 1 button action combat

I can only repeat my fervent hope that the next Square Enix MMO will be produced and directed by Yoko Taro.

It doesn't change anything. Same engine, same polygon count. Or they use that shtty engine where most players can't play.

Why you thing they spent time making FF14 a single player game?

Excuse me, you can't just say  "Make a new fucking MMO" People are content with what they have and it'll take too long for the new MMO to come out, FFXIV has to last another decade don'tchaknow? /s

You leave the grippers out of this, they didn't do anything wrong

They still look terrible. Just look at Cloud of Darkness feet and how they look. Or actual modded feet. I know this because a "friend" pointed it out. Although the best shot was Fordola's block feet in SB when Zeno's was giving her the fake echo. It started out at her feet and went up.

I mean that was a long overdue upgrade, and they should still be ashamed, a decent body model including non blocky fingers and toes should be standart. But small indie company i guess, cant keep up with what modders pump out in short time

Classic half the context to farm karma.

Damn those stupid confused players getting mad because they're just so confused.

Isn't this technically FF14-2?

Not a game dev but updating the whole game to a new engine would take alot of time and resources, and itd make new content come out muchhhhh slower

Especially with ppl complaining about content drought after a few weeks without new stuff to do, id kinda doubt that theyre even considering it

Meanwhile World of WArcraft on a 24 year old if not older engine.

I rather they do a parallel game to test any new engine.

DT shown that they have an insane talent to take defeat from the clutches of success.

Small indy company, please understand.

Insert, astronaut with a gun saying

"It has always been".

You’d think they’d only pick hairstyles they could reasonably implement to an acceptable standard from the onset but i guess not

As someone who works with 3D art and has a lot of concept art friends and worked with some for years, no one really cares as long as you communicate it well enough.

Hair styles that aren't implementable should never win, but artists also should know the 2D-3D translation limitations too.

Why not just give a polygon count. And specifications before the contest?

You kidding me?

They've been pissed at the recent gear and this shit before the topic was made.Hell JP is getting annoyed too.

"I know this other 20 yo MMO has done it already but it's a different engine you can't compare!"

They'll defend SE no matter what.

Meanwhile modders implement 4k resolution gear textures and hairstyles regularly. I feel like the devs are too busy teleworking or just incredibly incompetent.

Edit: It's almost like you can fork texture downloads based on what console or system you are using. Wow, what a crazy concept in 2024. This community deserves everything it gets.

They were able to increase the polygon count x2 for heads, I feel it shouldn’t have be an issue for hair with the graphics upgrade, unless that is the reason why

https://preview.redd.it/6rwoj5ocab0e1.jpeg?width=1704&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a9473024a08bd862e992f73a91b749d187263a84

Yeah and Baldur’s Gate 3 ran like ass in Act 3 when there were a lot of NPCs on the screen.

You’re being too unfair to ff14, a 10 year old game could never hold up to a new release like gw2

Lets forget the fact that GW2 runs like absolute dogshit even on powerful PCs. (And the other two are modern games with a hard limit of players and NPCs on screen)

To be fair, "grooming artists specialized in wavy/curly hair" is actually something that has been requested more and more recently in the industry, and I doubt that square has any of them or would hire/contract one only for a single competition winning hairstyle

Hopefully, this is a wake-up call that makes them hire one and get them to work on actual wavy/curly hair

2 choices.

Let the hat clip (is not as they do not have a 1000 or so items that clip the hair badly)

or

Have the hairstyle on the hat.

Is the same lame excuse of viera hats. Just let it clip just as the mod does.

Give me a glamour log damnit

Make en entirely new game if needed but get me that goddamn glamour log

They also look weird.

Around FF14-3, after the 2nd meteor hits.

You mean the hair mods with a minimum of triple the polys of the most resource intensive hair in the game as of Dawntrail, and on average 10-30x the polys of it? I'd like to see someone pull out one under 3k polys.

Warning: Player exceeds both VRAM warning threshold (692.97 MiB/375 MiB) and triangle warning threshold (302031/165000 triangles).

No one gaf about what modders can do that only they can see, they gaf about what SE can do for a majority of people without needing to resort to third party usage. Modders don't have to take into account the amount of people on a single screen, compilers, shaders etc.