Hi res purchasable graphics upgrade?

[StingRay104]

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

[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'!

[Kuporeid]

No one had to pay for a graphical upgrade when D&D online release a high res client; no one had to pay for a graphical upgrade when they added DX10 (and later DX11) support.

Several years ago, Sony put out an expansion for EverQuest that included a new game engine, featured a graphic overhaul of characters, and opened the game to different user interfaces. Players who chose not to buy that particular expansion are still able to play the game with the original engine, graphics, and user interface.

EverQuest has also had 17 expansions (each with genuinely new content like new continents, jobs, and/or races) released in it's 12 year history, despite having several hundreds of thousands fewer subscribers than Final Fantasy XI. MMOs age differently than other games--players invest so much time and energy (and money) into them that they are generally able to hold onto a strong playerbase if they continue offering genuinely new content.

I am very curious as to how many active devs FFXI has versus other long-running MMOs. Depending on the numbers, this may very well be one of the factors contributing to why we hear so many "no"s from the dev team.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

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

Ha, you called FFXI a work in progress.

[Atomic_Skull]

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.

I actually have a pretty fair grip on what I'm talking about, I just have a bad habit of talking about slightly different things than other people are in some threads.

If you want to see how much of a difference just improving the engine without touching the art assets can make look up the Aion 3.0 trailer on Youtube.

[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.

[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?