Quote Originally Posted by Greatguardian View Post
It's not about quitting due to graphics. It's about potentially adding a new playerbase with an updated graphics engine.

Most of us who play now don't care about the graphics because we've been playing the game since the graphics were relatively good for the time, and we have a combination of nostalgia goggles and a personal investment in the game. Neither of these mean anything to people who may potentially pick up the game on steam or at best buy.
I'm not sure about the fact "new graphics = new players"
because of FFXIV is very good at graphics, but even the oldest even the newest players, don't want to play it and sure don't want to pay for it, so the graphics can't help totally, graphics can help at the start, when you see screenshot or video before the launch of the game, but when you start to play it, graphics go down in front of gameplay.

think about a FFXI with HQ graphics : sure, it's cool! the actual players will be very happy and maybe someone who quitted will reactivate, but if the contents are still the same, the cool sensations will finish within a couple of months.

so, my opinion is : more and new contents (not only battlefields, but new areas and so on) are more important then graphics and anyway an update in the graphics can't come without new contents.