Comments from the Devs

[xopher]

Work perfectly here

Must be a DNS problem from your ISP

Nah. When it redirects me to https://membership.square-enix.com/users/edit, I doubt that's a DNS issue lol

Sorry should have clarified that in the previous post.

[Ratatapa]

Probably

But still when i go to Na.finalfantasyxiv.com it sends me to the good site

[Sephiroth]

Yeah I don't have an issue with na.finalfantasyxiv.com either. Just the forum link on the Lodestone, but that's not a domain issues, it's something they've done to make my popup blocker think it's a popup link.

[Gokulo]

First night time shots. Gorgeous

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/blog

Spoiler: show

http://rss.finalfantasyxiv.com/jp/bl...20130118_1.jpg

http://rss.finalfantasyxiv.com/jp/bl...20130118_2.jpg

http://rss.finalfantasyxiv.com/jp/bl...20130118_3.jpg

Ah, but will facing north-by-northeast at 2:45 a.m. while the moon is a waning crescent result in a 27% increase in your chances to synthesize HQ mythril ingots!? That is real the question!

I lol'd

[Fievel]

Wow those look really, really nice.

Also lol @ the crafting direction joke

[Aratharn]

You will actually be able to tell when it's night time now without having to look at the in game clock.

[Deuce]

I'm certainly impressed. Can't wait to see what the weather effects are like.

[Shuichi]

Those night shots look great. Hope there are monster appearing when night comes. Also, where my benchmark Yoshi????

[Lucavi]

The fact that he understands the absurdity of some of the XI... "concepts" is heartening.

Not to mention the fact that night time is actually, you know... dark.

[Raldo]

Looks like the light bloom effect is still everywhere though. I feel like I'm looking at those pictures through smudged glasses.

Oh wait, I am...

Nope, bloom is still there. Most of it looks fine, it's just the huge bloom around the moon that bugs me.

[miokomioko]

I can excuse light bloom coming off of light sources and lit windows... just as long as every illuminated surface in the game doesn't become a big stupid source of BLOOOOOM~

[Alkar]

I'm more interested in weather effects, especially those related to primal summoning.
Nice shots anyway, at least Gridania actually has some sky now.

[Shimbo]

Looks like the light bloom effect is still everywhere though. I feel like I'm looking at those pictures through smudged glasses.

Oh wait, I am...

Nope, bloom is still there. Most of it looks fine, it's just the huge bloom around the moon that bugs me.

So when you look at the moon you don't see a bloom around it IRL?

[xopher]

Looks like the light bloom effect is still everywhere though. I feel like I'm looking at those pictures through smudged glasses.

Oh wait, I am...

Nope, bloom is still there. Most of it looks fine, it's just the huge bloom around the moon that bugs me.

It's called moonglow. It's a real life phenomenon.

http://jozielee.files.wordpress.com/...5/moonglow.jpg

Stop grasping for things to complain about.

[Lucavi]

^ Agreed. Too much hate over shit blown out of proportion like bloom and brown in modern games. The browns are for softer shadows because modern PC tech can't properly render shadows in bright, ultra-colorful games with realistic or semi-realistic engines without blowing the average gamer's shitty rig to dust, and bloom is there because it looks nice and actually exists.

[Rocl]

grass

[Egon]

To be fair, I thought too much in 1.0 "glowed."

[miokomioko]

To be fair, I thought too much in 1.0 "glowed."

Whatever rendering algorithm they made for that engine's blooming went apeshit on certain colors. A prime example was that Roegadyn Musketeer from one of the beginning Limsa Lominsa main quests. The ruffles on his coatee were yellow nuclear explosion.

[Kami]

Wow those look really, really nice.

Also lol @ the crafting direction joke

I stopped playing FFXI in 2009 or something, at that point people had theories like moon phases, day, facing X or Y directions etc had some impact on crafting results.
Years later, did it turn out to be complet bs ? Been curious about that.

[Elcura]

I stopped playing FFXI in 2009 or something, at that point people had theories like moon phases, day, facing X or Y directions etc had some impact on crafting results.
Years later, did it turn out to be complet bs ? Been curious about that.

Pretty sure nothing was proved because it was bullshit. I could be wrong, but I honestly don't care if I am because moon phase/day/direction influencing crafting is dumb.