Official HD Textures pack?

[Saefinn]

They had higher graphics when 1.0 was out and the game couldn't handle them. It ran like crap.

There's a reason they had to downgrade them for 2.0.

I mean in fairness the engine was not built to handle it, it was a poorly optimised engine. But they pretty much rebuilt the engine from the ground up as the original engine had too many limitations. If I recall correctly it was a modification of the FFXIII engine, which was not built to handle an MMO like FFXIV. Plus as somebody mentioned...vases with ridiculous amount of polygons. So all-in-all it was badly done.

That said, I'd rather they focus on content, fixing things that need fixing and storytelling than graphics. Whilst I'd be happy to buy it if they made a HD texture pack for sale on the mogstation, but I'd rather not see them spend existing resource on it.

Plus GShade/ReShade is plenty IMO to beautify the existing graphics and SE a while back said that they are totally cool with people using it. I've managed to get some really decent looking screenshots out of GShade.