Quote Originally Posted by Ath192 View Post
You are right, you are no developer. A lot of things can be turned on or off altogether to run on lesser hardware.

This is how Modern Warfare II can run on a toaster on minimum specs and tax a 4090 in 4K simultaneously with full on Ray tracing and max textures.

Here are the minimum specifications needed to play Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II:

OS: Windows 10 64 Bit (latest update)
CPU: Intel Core i3-6100 / Core i5-2500K or AMD Ryzen 3 1200
RAM: 8 GB
Hi-Rez Assets Cache: Up to 32 GB
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 or AMD Radeon RX 470
Video Memory: 2 GB

In fact, Sandy Bridge released in 2011 seen above which is 12 year old hardware and yet this is their recommended 4K setup:

Ultra 4K Specifications
The Ultra specs to run the game at a high FPS in 4K resolution:

OS: Windows 10 64 Bit (latest update) or Windows 11 64 Bit (latest update)
CPU: Intel Core i9-9900K or AMD Ryzen 9 3900X
RAM: 16 GB
Hi-Rez Assets Cache: Up to 64 GB
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 or AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT
Video Memory: 10 GB

Of which the video cards are from last gen ~2 years old, so they effectively run a full decade of hardware specs.

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1. As they should
2. As FFXIV should

It will only make everyone happy, so I don't get what people get off on from naysaying or arguing against it.
And you're suggesting that they can bring XIV up to that level without redesigning it, just polish up the models and lighting engine and it's ready to go?