Originally Posted by
Alhanelem
Firstly, I'm not comparing to any specific game. Secondly (No relation to your secondly >.>), the game's engine is capable of more than what they did with it. This has nothing to do with old vs modern. The game can higher resolution textures than get used. Probably the worst offender in the entire game is the mog house carpet. it looks a hell of a lot worse than the avatar auras.
Also, the above poster's statement is probable, because the auras don't look anywhere near as bad as you describe for me. However, that doesn't mean they couldn't be improved. If they can improve the title screen graphic, the resolution of the icons, and the resolution of the fonts, which are visible all over the game, there's no reason they can't use any higher resolution textures anywhwere else in the game (At least, on the Windows client).
It's stupid to have an option to disable something because it's ugly. The whole game looks about as good as those auras, and I dont see much complaint (other than this post) about that. Instead of an option to turn it off, they should fix it or make it look better. The avatars would look like crap without the auras and lose their magical appearance.