Hi res purchasable graphics upgrade?

[Unleashhell]

Game still has a large playerbase, infact many many times more than their brand new MMO and we all still pay full price, age has nothing to do with it.

Age has lots to do with it. Every aspect of the game is coming to 10 years old. The graphics, game engine, limitations on PS2 and I'm sure lots of behind the scenes things we do not even see. With newer technology out there and new ideas that can be put into an entirely new game there is no reason to revamp a 10 year old game. The player base gets less and less daily. You are not going to gain new players that say "oh I want FFXI thats been out for 10 years to be my first MMORPG" when there are tons more options to choose from with better graphics, game engines etc. Unfortunately we are on the down turn of this game, that climax has come and gone. Right now they are just making the game as easy as possible, with virtually no challenges. Players don't even know how to play 90% of their jobs anymore because they just Abyssea them up from 30 to 90. This is just a hold over until 14 is ready and fixed or one of SE's new MMORPG takes over as their newest and greatest game.

[Tagrineth]

Players don't even know how to play 90% of their jobs anymore because they just Abyssea them up from 30 to 90.

People were gimps and retards before abyssea. Abyssea didn't change a damned thing in this regard.

Also: World of Warcraft is only 2 years younger than FFXI, and nobody gives a shit about its age yet. Age is not really a significant factor with MMORPGs.

[Eri]

People were gimps and retards before abyssea. Abyssea didn't change a damned thing in this regard.

So True! But Abys changed one thing for sure! The ppl that you named are getting invites to Abys now while before noone would invite Trash!

@ OP: How about adding the ToaU Skybox everywhere? it would look so mutch better and its no Upgrade really..... Its 'Copy & Paste'!

[Alhanelem]

No, SE "steals" it's developers from its other games. And the announcement was about the single, but they stated that another was in the works as well. So 4.

SE does not "steal" developers from works in progress. Sometimes individual staff members decide themselves to move from one project to another or take on more than one, but that was a choice they personally made.

You also seem to have forgotten that several projects have also been cancelled recently, which leaves more staff free for new/other projects.

Also please provide links and definitive proof that there have been two seperate announcements, you can be 100% proof positive that they are not announcements about the same thing, and that neither of them is the yet to be released Wakfu or are referring to either of their existing projects..

There has only beeon one instance since the release of FFXIV that they said they were working on a new MMO that I know about. And they certainly did not say they were working on two new MMO games.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

SE does not "steal" developers from works in progress.

Ha, you called FFXI a work in progress.

[Alhanelem]

Ha, you called FFXI a work in progress.

Ha, I wasn't referencing FFXI, I was referencing all projects in development in general.

I guess I should have specified that I don't really care about a texture bump. I'm more into a vastly improved graphics engine, with better lighting effects, support for proper antialiasing, being able to run the game at 60 fps, and various other things like that.

All those things are nice, but nasty looking textures will still be nasty looking textures, just with better lights shining on them and a better framerate. You can only mask the low resolution of the textures so much.

[Atomic_Skull]

Ha, I wasn't referencing FFXI, I was referencing all projects in development in general.

All those things are nice, but nasty looking textures will still be nasty looking textures, just with better lights shining on them and a better framerate. You can only mask the low resolution of the textures so much.

HDR rendering and global lighting and shadowing would still make a huge difference.

[StingRay104]

PS3 version of game. yes please, and higher grapihic version that isn't lol14

[Mirage]

Also, I wouldn't even mind if they just didn't change the old textures, but instead just let new gear added after the graphics bump get higher texture resolutions, along with perhaps the empyrean gear. Because let's face it, how much old (visible) gear is used today?