Hi Res Texture Pack

[Shirobi]

PS3 support doesn't hamper those effects either for PC/Ps4 players as you put it, but lowering the entry point for hardware limits the game's overall world design... that's why they're planning on dropping PS3 support eventually.

How is it limiting to simply add the same suite of on/off options every other major MMO has?

Heck, Turbine goes a step further and even maintains two versions of the client PLUS offering on/off options for all effects in each. You also see this sort of dual-client support for a lot of Korean style games as well.

If the game was designed from the start with scalability in mind it shouldnt be a stumbling block for the dev team. It would just take more time and effort to get the system set up but once its in place it takes care of itself.

Although it does make sense if SE does not wish to make that sort of investment. They already did roll a huge amount of money into this game. Twice. And since its a pay to play, they dont have to be so concerned with targeting as wide an audience as a company like Turbine, etc.

It could well be SE just figures its time and money better spent elsewhere.

[codeKURISU]

Go away please.

Oh, come one people! This game is really cheap and affordable anyways, what's the monthly subscription again? it is just $14... That at year is... (plus retainer, plus expansion...) oh wait.
Mr. Yoshi, I changed my mind.
I want HD texture pack for free
Now!
NOW I SAID!!!

[Onikimaru]

Yes please.

[einzele]

people who say "ps3 limitation" should stop.

the only reasons i have in mind why SE doesnt want to do this is either they dont want to make console players feel jealous, or they just dont want to spend resource on it, or both.

[Colorful]

people who say "ps3 limitation" should stop.

the only reasons i have in mind why SE doesnt want to do this is either they dont want to make console players feel jealous, or they just dont want to spend resource on it, or both.

They already have all the assets in very high res saved somewhere, no developer just deletes assets like that because they're done with them (and they're clearly not, plenty of reused assets in HW). It would take development resources sure, but not to the point of that it would be a detriment to their team. As for making console users jealous, well we already got DX11 and they don't seem to have a problem separating console and PC players there, don't see why this would be any different.

I'd really like an official response to this. They claim to listen to feedback on the forums, but when it comes to things that aren't a minion they go ignored, even if they're one of the more asked for features. Want the game to last 10 years? How about not making the textures look like something out of an early PS3 game? I may have understood needing to have poor quality textures if the world was massive and connected rather than making everything cut off (and even then, reduce the quality of textures far off like every other game), but that's not the case.

[Daralii]

people who say "ps3 limitation" should stop.

the only reasons i have in mind why SE doesnt want to do this is either they dont want to make console players feel jealous, or they just dont want to spend resource on it, or both.

That's an actual contract clause that Microsoft has been known to put it, and I wouldn't be surprised if Sony has done it too.

[Riardon]

Yoshi and team refusing to answer this. They only gave a vague answer that they will keep improving the graphic quality of the game in future. What this means nobody knows. One can only hope one day we will get higher res textures, DoF effects and more AA solutions.

[reillyblair]

so basically you want to go back to 1.0 where you need top of the line pc and still lag lol

[Dalvy]

I'll be glad to get a high res texture pack, so long as it is only for pc. PS3 LIMITATIONS always put a damper on this game's potential

[Colorful]

so basically you want to go back to 1.0 where you need top of the line pc and still lag lol

There are these things called options y'know, if you aren't capable of running higher resolution textures, then turn the texture quality down. To add to that, textures weren't the main issue with 1.0's poor performance, it was crappily optimized, and other parts played a much larger part into it, such a the incredibly high polygon count. Your average gaming computer in this day would have at least 2GB of VRAM. I run a fairly mid-high end rig, and FFXIV barely makes use of it's available VRAM, using only 1/4th of the available amount (second line). This is in the Churning Mists, a large open Heavensward area with everything cranked up to max.



Gaming computers today are more than capable of handling significantly better graphics, the only thing holding them back is SE at the moment.