Upgraded texture pack?

[Andrien]

I like it. adding more content and expansion packs like this would be welcomed too.

[Cybermario]

you got my vote, hd textures would be amazing

[Teraniku]

Just thought I'd gauge interest.
How many people would be interested in an HD texture pack upgrade?

Obviously, this isn't really feasible on the consoles (well, maybe premium DLC for 360?) but PC, it's totally viable.

Not interested in discussing the work involved, whether it's worth it etc. - just want to gauge opinion..

Personally, I see an optional texture pack as being only a good thing.
Perhaps they could roll it out in stages? 1 zone at a time? Start with the cities?
What do you guys think?

I'd even pay $15-20 for this.
-Actually I think SE should do a Kickstarter or IndieGoGo Campaign for this. Set a couple Price points:
-Basic $15.00 you get the upgraded Texture Pack if the goal is reached
-Deluxe $30.00 Texture Pack + Some in game Special offer item (ie tidal Talisman, Destrier Beret, Spinet etc)
-Premium $50.00 (Texture Pack + 2 Special items)
They could add up to the $1000 level and include a Fully upgraded Relic, Emp, or Mythic of your choice for that level.

-Then set stretch goals if they reach XXXX level of money they would do a full rework of the wrapper to DX 11 standards and what not.

[Hercule]

should be so cool, or even a tool from SE that allow users to mod textures in the game with a community website for download them, like bethesda did with Skyrim

[Kaisha]

Don't even need a texture pack to make FFXI look better. Just need a new rendering engine that isn't dumping all the visuals to a flat texture to then stretch to the screen size.

There's room for much better bumpmap lighting (as it stands, it barely exists outside of 'day' and 'night' and that one second transition between the two come 18:00), native anti-aliasing that doesn't involve doubling the rendering texture resolution to something like 2048x2048, increased draw distance, unlocking frame rate from game logic to let us hit 60fps, and a less aggressive LOD so you don't see props like trees painfully popping up with more detail from 5' away.

[wish12oz]

If it made Kaerin XI look like Kaerin XIV I would pay for it, otherwise I wouldnt bother.

[noirin]

i'd pay for it.hands down without a second to think about it. i'd easily pay up to around $30 for this. Despite that being a little high, if they were retexturing EVERYTHING that currently existed that's a heck of alot of work to sift through to get everything setup properly.

[Rosina]

I welcome this

And about ffxiv character designes... I played it too, and not all the races look alike. There are options, miqo'te do have the option to give them the mithra nose. Just if people want more human looking kitty ppl. Thats their choice. And each clan does have different coloring.

But that beside the point. Maybe with the new expac they can update character creation to give us more options and had a barber shop type thing to change our characters.

again I support this even if the 360 don't get it it be nice to see hd ffxi youtubeds of ffxi.

[Duvemora]

I'd welcome this, and I'd pay for it.

[Jile]

I'd also pay for a texture upgrade pack..... Can I also pay to get back the orig graphics of the avatars with the GM style glow while we're doing that lol..