Can we get HQ textures yet? It's 2018

[Riardon]

They need to put more details into the diffuse maps for the gears also. Because it'd be pointless to just put them in high res. If you were to us a higher res diffuse map for the cape in the image below, it would just be a bland yellow mark without the jagged edges. For now, anything post 1.0 is just a bland mixture of colors. All the details are in the normal maps.

Cape is 3.0 model and shoulder pad is 1.0

God my eyes. It's awful. And the game is full with such examples. Some housing items are plain horrible. Some gear sets have specific textures in potato quality and some other textures on slightly better quality and this makes some gear sets horrible.
SE seriously needs to work the game's texture and release HD/HQ textures. By the time the next expansion will be out it will already be 2019 (Q3/Q4).
The game looks outdated because of the textures more than anything else.

[Eriane_Elis]

Oh look, something else modders have proved possible that SE will still come up with some BS excuse for. It's getting sad that it comes to relying on that to keep the game up to par with current pretty graphics standards.

-- edit -- nevermind, I finally found what i was looking for. I'm really impressed at what people have done.

[bass9020]

Well we finally have it. 100% confirmation that we really won’t be seeing any upgrades on the graphical side for a very long time.

This was part of a response from Yoshi from gamescom “Since FFXIV had PS3 support, its graphics technology is 2 generations behind. If we had high poly models/hi-res textures ((unclear)) then we could just swap them out, but we don't. A lot of things were created low poly/low-res from the start for cost-saving, so we would have to recreate all of them in order for the improved graphics to look good.”

But they sure do have enough time and assets to charge us for a mobile app, give me a break.

[Kaurhz]

I can get behind allowing for an option for higher texture in the game, definitely. I cannot however get behind these textures being the minimum specifications, even with Advancements in technology.

[Bahati]

What is with SE and bare minimum effort?

[Kaurhz]

What is with SE and bare minimum effort?

I'm not sure how you derive that from this thread.

[KisaiTenshi]

They need to put more details into the diffuse maps for the gears also. Because it'd be pointless to just put them in high res. If you were to us a higher res diffuse map for the cape in the image below, it would just be a bland yellow mark without the jagged edges. For now, anything post 1.0 is just a bland mixture of colors. All the details are in the normal maps.

Cape is 3.0 model and shoulder pad is 1.0

This is the most glaringly outlandish "how did this end up in the release product", any non-player model in the cutscenes that you see up close, should have had higher resolution textures. Period. Compare that to the sleeves on the Shisui gear.

Well we finally have it. 100% confirmation that we really won’t be seeing any upgrades on the graphical side for a very long time.

This was part of a response from Yoshi from gamescom “Since FFXIV had PS3 support, its graphics technology is 2 generations behind. If we had high poly models/hi-res textures ((unclear)) then we could just swap them out, but we don't. A lot of things were created low poly/low-res from the start for cost-saving, so we would have to recreate all of them in order for the improved graphics to look good.”

But they sure do have enough time and assets to charge us for a mobile app, give me a break.

They HAVE higher poly models, Version 1.0 had them. What Yoshi-P is referring to is actually making stuff that would be suitable for the 4K/high-end-PC/PS4Pro type of equipment and there just isn't a high enough install base to justify doing that at this time.

Low-poly'ing models is what you do after you've designed them. If they straight up designed things that way from the beginning... I'm sorry, how many times have we seen things that were recycled from FFX/FFXI/FFXII/FFXIII? You can't tell me they didn't use those models as a base. Someone else at SE already gave-away the secret that they can make HD remasters of anything PS2 or later. It's the PS1 games they might forever by hobbled without a full blown remake (hence FF7 getting a long-overdue remake.) It's not like Autodesk isn't still making 3D Studio Max.

[Elamys]

Hair models in this game are pretty bad, especially if you play on a bigger race. You can tell that they just stretched the models out for elezen.

[bass9020]

What is with SE and bare minimum effort?

They want us to relive and never forget the flower pot fiasco of 1.0 until we die.

[RareItems]

The game is most likely too big to remaster just like FFXI.

Graphics isn't everything anyways .

Look at Black Desert Online, they just released their remaster this week and it's barely 3 years old. It looks like a PS6 game now o.o. It's too bad it's still the same grindfest xD.