graphic update?

[TristanX]

They could add a new preset too. Maybe Maximum (2022). With a warning for those who does not have the hardware that has enough performance.

[SigmaOZ]

^^^


You see reason, this game is very accessible for all kinds of hardware and I don't understand why the graphics quality should be held back.


Let this game have options for everyone, if you want blocky graphics have at them, I want beautiful high-end graphics for my very personal experience.

[Shougun]

I feel they could get nice mileage out of the tech side, further improving lighting, special effect system, weather, flora, water, physics in general (with options for things like personal, party, everyone), aa, and such features. There are some particular textures though that are a bit egregious lol (most are fine, but a few are like holy pixel batman). I wonder if they could use AI to accelerate some of those tasks. Most models are pretty good, but I would say character models getting a bit more poly would be neat (though probably one of the most expensive things they could do, depending on if gear needs changed, round as in hands, feet, bum).


I mean some of that does involve more than just 'code', but obviously having to do a pass over the entire game would be rather daunting of a task, meanwhile allowing the engine to produce higher quality results with the same inputs (while still allowing lower resource intensive options) would be nice.

[Shuuli]

Imagine what this game would look like with unreal engine 5.

[gumas]

i dont think ff14 will ever have huge overhaul graphical upgrade, i remember years ago the dev said that overhaul graphic is impossible because the chaotic spaghetti code in the game.

remember that they salvage this from the original ff14 which already a total chaos and become what we know ff14 now, further graphic update will require something like sega do with their PSO2 => NGS which literally create a whole new game with new engine but allowing the player to transfer their character and 90% of their stuff to the new game.

[Endariel]

Was wondering whether the dev team has any plans to upgrade the graphics. They are very outdated and I know for a fact this game would get even more players if the graphic looked how they look in Final Fantasy 7 remake.

They tried, FFXIV 1.0 was the result

[Shialan]

If they really want to get another 10 years out of this game, they will need to upgrade the graphics sooner than later. If not even an engine update.

[Slayer25c]

If they really want to get another 10 years out of this game, they will need to upgrade the graphics sooner than later. If not even an engine update.

Yoshi p has say they probably update them in 7.0 as PS3 no longer around and they probably will end PS4 support next expansion

[LukaRoselia]

What you have to remember is that this game needs to be able to run on consoles and they're not going to go out of their way to do a complete graphical overhaul for PC users only. I love the way this game looks. FFVIIR had framerate issues on the PS4 and is apparently running horribly on most PC's, that's without being an online game with a large amount of player controlled, customisable character models on screen all at once. I would be surprised if the game ever does get a graphical upgrade and should it happen to don't expect some massive RDR2 looking overhaul because it won't happen.

[Tatiana]

We're more likely to see gradual improvements over a period of time the way blizzard does with WoW. Things like lighting and texture upgrades but I don't see them doing a massive overhaul to this games graphics ever as that is extremely time consuming and expensive.