Can we get HQ textures yet? It's 2018

[Sapphire_Dianta]

I've recently installed World of Warcraft, and i must say in my opinion ff is lightyears ahead in graphics quality. Character customisation options are also a joke on wow in comparison.

I did say 'modern' MMO. WoW is over a decade old. A more apt comparison would be Tera and/or Blade & Soul, which came out roughly around the time FFXIV released. Both games are gorgeous.

[Arrius]

And yet texture quality from Mist of Pandaria (perhaps even Cata too) and forward is much better than anything we have at FFXIV ATM, also, despite WoW cartoony look in term of models/landscape geometry/complexity is also ahead of FF14. BTW, TERA and BnS also suffer from "ugly as sin" textures too (mainly terrain). Reality is in FF14 most of the textures don't hold up against a moderate close up.

I'm not asking for anything crazy but certain stuff, like character hair textures, is in need of an improvement.

World of Warcraft is already 14 (!) years in, and they had more than enough time to get themselves a graphical bump in all sections, alone 10 years -by the release of WoD- for the update in character models.

All you -could- ask for, however, are the 1.0 graphics and the body form. They were ahead of their time and the ARR look did take a step back in favor of streamlining stuff.

[Sunako]

I did say 'modern' MMO. WoW is over a decade old. A more apt comparison would be Tera and/or Blade & Soul, which came out roughly around the time FFXIV released. Both games are gorgeous.

In blade and soul there is 0 difference if you wanna play with standard 1080 resolution or 4k. Fps not move anywhere. I would say ff14 have better graphics than blade and soul.