Can we get HQ textures yet? It's 2018

[Crystal_Raven]

there's still something called minimum PC requirements.

Graphics are an option that varies on an individual basis. I don't understand people who voice the opinion that everybody should be forced to use old graphics. If in 2018 you are still not able to own a computer that can easily run this game on at least medium to high settings, then there are far bigger issues at hand than playing the game.

Minimum PC requirements can be raised. Time is passing, technology is improving, so must the game. If it remains with the same level it had years ago, then progress cannot happen.

[KisaiTenshi]

Honestly i think SE could just approach the people who made the mod and ask for permission to officially implement their work in the actual game,

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Would not happen. There is all kinds of liability involved, and just is not going to be a thing with a MMO game. That's all you need is someone sneaking something in that someone else claims copyright on because the "modder" stole it from another game, or an actual person/thing.

Graphics are an option that varies on an individual basis. I don't understand people who voice the opinion that everybody should be forced to use old graphics. If in 2018 you are still not able to own a computer that can easily run this game on at least medium to high settings, then there are far bigger issues at hand than playing the game.

Minimum PC requirements can be raised. Time is passing, technology is improving, so must the game. If it remains with the same level it had years ago, then progress cannot happen.

This just ignoring the issue. MMO's have to run on potatos otherwise only people with a $2500 machines can play it. FFXV, does not run well at all with, or without the high res textures, and oddly enough, runs slightly better with the high res textures due to less upscaling.

As paid DLC, it would be ridiculous and unworkable for a MMO. The way content is organized in the game would require an entire extra set of textures, ignoring the actual geometry issues that cause them to look wrong in the first place.

Increasing the texture size, increases the video memory requirements.

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/videocard/

The most common card a person has a Geforce 1060. That is just good enough for 1080p, not 4K.
Only 1% of Steam users are using something grossly inferior (Intel onboard graphics)
Roughly half have "HD Capable" nVidia GPU's, while this doesn't actually tell us the video memory.

The 1060 is available in 3GB and 6GB versions.

SE, clearly has better textures, perhaps the issue with Hien's outfit was not apparent by whoever exported it, and thus it can't be fixed without re-downloading the entire Stormblood expansion. That is the cost of not having 150,000 files (which V1.0 had) taking up space and getting spread all over the place by the disk defragmenter.

If SE really wanted to, they could create another SKU for "HD" and "4K" texture package of the game, and modify the launcher to only download the version selected in the launcher, instead of downloading everything. That way they could be more selective of what is upgraded, and players won't have to download 4K textures if they don't have 4K capable hardware. Final Fantasy XV, installed with high res textures is 148GB, or a little more than 5 times the size of FFXIV.