We need upgraded textures or better graphical options.

[Altena]

I call BS, individuals have done HD texture packs for parts of games like Skyrim and Fallout before. There are HD texture packs of N64 games on emulation. They all do this for free.

Its obvious the team does not appreciate good graphics, perhaps they are still comparing to graphics to FFXI or they know based on WoW and FFXI that it is not relevant to the games long term success.

The cost and time investment involved with producing anything on a company level has to be weighed up.
A hobbyist graphic designer doesn't have to think about this sort of thing.

The reason is less about the fact that they can't but more about the fact that they are not willing to invest the resources into this.

What's more strange to me is why they didn't produce the textures in high res to begin with, and scale them down. But I am by no means versed in game design.

[MaFi0s0]

The cost and time investment involved with producing anything on a company level has to be weighed up.
A hobbyist graphic designer doesn't have to think about this sort of thing.

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What's more strange to me is why they didn't produce the textures in high res to begin with, and scale them down. But I am by no means versed in game design.

My guess is PS3 limitations or they had a minimum PC spec to adhere to based on global market share.
The thing is they can always outsource this sort of work, Bethesda do it all the time. My guess is they are too proud to hire outsiders to do their work and I bet their assets are a mess to dig through so no-one on the team can be bothered.

The thing is the shimmering is the number 1 complaint, it is literally the games weakest link so I think it must be addressed if they want to improve anything.

[jameseoakes]

My guess is PS3 limitations or they had a minimum PC spec to adhere to based on global market share.
The thing is they can always outsource this sort of work, Bethesda do it all the time. My guess is they are too proud to hire outsiders to do their work and I bet their assets are a mess to dig through so no-one on the team can be bothered.

The thing is the shimmering is the number 1 complaint, it is literally the games weakest link so I think it must be addressed if they want to improve anything.

I think the game has really nice graphics...

[Teraluna]

I think the game has really nice graphics...

Me too, looks really good.

[MaFi0s0]

I think the game has really nice graphics...

Aliasing aside I think the game is beautiful but the shimmering just drives me and many other people nuts.

I also dont believe some people dont have it, I think people who claim they dont have just never played a game on high enough settings or are just sitting very far away from their screen and dont notice.
The reason I say this is because there is no user based solution to the problem, I have even gone out and bought a new graphics card and monitor and the problem persisted.