I love how everyone rushes to the white knight accusation if anyone points out basic logic. Like if we dont force the big evil corporation to make our dreams reality we are all doomed.

Calm down. This ain’t racoon city and SE aint umbrella.

No one is ever going to be fully happy. Yes there are some valid criticisms of XIV and they should be heard, there are some nice wishlist changes, some are pipedreams and even the posters know it they just need to acknowledge it.

Fact is you dont need to know game development or the budget situation or anything to offer ideas or criticisms the dev team is actually pretty transparent with what they can and can do and what limits them.

Needless to say they have never complained about the game engine or server structure.

They’ve acknowledged one. ONE. Flaw that hinders them. The spaghetti code the game is built on from the initial rebuild of 1.x..

As for graphics, during an interview in a lead up to shadowbringers Yoshi-P expressly said they could but they do not want to as it would prohibit a significant portion of their PC player base who play on outdated equipment.