@SquareEnix: Kickstarter campaign to get a graphic upgrade?

[dmuller30]

Graphics don't make a game better, more content does. If pretty graphics mattered over content, you and I would be playing games that already offer amazing graphics, I came from a game with the best graphics in the genre and now I'm paying to play this.

Time taken to upgrade graphics takes away from adding new content, sad fact of reality.

Actually visual + game play make a good game. And that is my opinion just like yours is great gameplay onry. Now for the ones who want good upgraded graphics that is there opinion and I agree with them. I don't play WoW because I don't like the graphics. To me you can have the best game play in the world but I don't want to sit and stare at a game I don't find visually appealing. I do find FFXI visually appealing because I grew up playing it so the graphics don't bother me. But I would love to see a visual upgrade on the game.

[Pixela]

Actually visual + game play make a good game. And that is my opinion just like yours is great gameplay onry. Now for the ones who want good upgraded graphics that is there opinion and I agree with them. I don't play WoW because I don't like the graphics. To me you can have the best game play in the world but I don't want to sit and stare at a game I don't find visually appealing. I do find FFXI visually appealing because I grew up playing it so the graphics don't bother me. But I would love to see a visual upgrade on the game.

When I said graphics don't matter, I meant in terms of the current game. As in adding more polygons or increasing the texture maps doesn't matter when compared to just adding more content to it. If Square spent 10 million making the engine of ffxi look like ffxiv but didn't add any new content almost all of us would leave.

As I said, you can't have a graphics upgrade without them stopping work on new content, do you want more content or better graphics? You can't have both... unless you expect them to put a whole other team on making graphics upgrades.

Also many are vastly underestimating how much a graphics upgrade would cost for this game, mainly in terms of how much money people who do this are paid.

[dmuller30]

When I said graphics don't matter, I meant in terms of the current game. As in adding more polygons or increasing the texture maps doesn't matter when compared to just adding more content to it. If Square spent 10 million making the engine of ffxi look like ffxiv but didn't add any new content almost all of us would leave.

As I said, you can't have a graphics upgrade without them stopping work on new content, do you want more content or better graphics? You can't have both... unless you expect them to put a whole other team on making graphics upgrades.

Also many are vastly underestimating how much a graphics upgrade would cost for this game, mainly in terms of how much money people who do this are paid.

So your telling me that most other games that have enhanced their graphics had to hire a whole other team to pump out those graphical increases and spend an insane amount of money to do so? Bull, look at modding community texture packs can be built by just a few people and they leave the game looking amazing. Not to mention upgrading and enhancing our character models can be done just the same with just 2/3 people. If they can do it with 2/3 people then so could SE. Character creation on this game is in it's most simplest form so the creation of HD remade models would be pretty easy or implementing the ones used in character creation with enhanced graphics would be minimal effort. There are tons of people on this game that want a graphical upgrades of some kind, not just the people on this post. And SE or any other company wouldn't say we are doing a graphics update so lets just halt the implementation of any new content that is just common sense. WoW, Aion, Tera are just a few among many who went through graphical upgrades while still getting new content added and improving on old content. So if other companies can enhance graphics on both F2P and P2P so could SE considering it is now possible with no PS2 or XBOX to limit them.