FFXIV needs an update

[Enkidoh]

Those wanting a graphical update probably will be disappointed because Yoshi stated in the past it was an obssession with high end graphics which is exactly why the original version of FFXIV (1.0) failed - that SE had what he termed "the graphics disease", that fancy graphics took priority over everything else - and that any issue could simply be patched later.

ARR was thus designed to be more mid ranged graphic wise and thus playable on a much wider range of PCs and systems, even people with department store OEM systems with a low end video card - I mean, the barest minimum system requirements that the game will run on is FFXIV ARR is Windows XP SP3! - and before you pass judgement, FFXIV's predecessor FFXI still runs in it's original PS2 era engine (that still uses Direct X 8 running emulated in DX9!, and yet it is still going strong).

It's clear to SE that graphics are not everything, and although they certainly will make improvements here in there, you're simply not going to see a full replacement of ARR with a new engine (and lets face it, the way technology is, in a few years what is current "high end" graphics.. will become yesterday's news soon enough anyway, constantly chasing the latest graphics in an MMO is a zero-sum game that will eventually be unattainable, that's just being realistic.