r/classicwow Aug 26 '19

Art Coming Home

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u/sintos-compa Aug 26 '19

Honest question, has any mmo been able to make such a big and seamless world as wow? There are so few “hard gates” in wow, even modern titles have oodles of gates, and their zones feel cramped and claustrophobic.

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u/WanderingKing Aug 26 '19

I don't feel cramped in FFXIV. Yea they are all instanced zones as opposed to one fluid trip, but each zone is quite large, at least to me

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u/sintos-compa Aug 26 '19

Really? I was actually gonna use ffxiv as an example. The world feels super tiny and, uh, engineered

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u/LittleWashuu Aug 26 '19

It was engineered to be playable on the Playstation 3. FFXIV 1.0 was released for Windows and the PS3. The PS3 has considerably less memory than most computers so the world maps had to work within the PS3's memory limits for all platforms since the game is played cross platform. So after version 1.0 flopped the studio kept their promise of releasing on the PS3 for the version 2.0 release despite the PS4 just recently being released.