Quote Originally Posted by Edax View Post
In context through, this game looks far better then WoW or SWTOR. It may just be the price of the MMORPG to sacrifice graphics. So many AAA games come out now with stunning graphics and practically no story and fairly poor gameplay. In the end, I stop caring about really good graphics long ago because the "game" needed to come first in my eyes. Otherwise I might as well be watching an anime or movie.
No it doesn't

Art style and direction is different, i personally cannot stand it and is why i have never played it and probably never will. But texture budget of WoW is now higher than XIV. Their models have also increased over the years, in fact, WoW at its best settings is nothing short of good looking, at least for its universe is thematically fitting and it blends well with everything else. I cannot say the same of XIV, since in every cutscene that closes into Hien, i wonder if my GPU is actually artifacting. Or im reminded of early 2000s FPS enviromental graphics.