Updated benchmark

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Which brings me back to what I said at the end, I really wouldn't mind if they just added the new changes as an optional pick, I just don't want to lose the changes before I even got the chance to play with them!
Ultimately, if this is a "change vs no change" deal, I'll always pick the former. If there's a third option that keeps everyone happy, then that's where my vote would go instead!

I'm just worried about the dev team getting this negative feedback, and them interpreting this as "no, the players don't like it when we improve graphical fidelity, never doing it again" and I get that isn't what's being argued, but it wouldn't be the first time a message would be received like that because it'd be practical, less troublesome and less work. Like, the feeling I'm getting from most players here is that they'd rather there was no upgrade whatsoever if it meant the shape of their character's face was the same.

They'd be able to do that thing where if people ever ask for more again, they'd point back and say "but you hated it, why should we try this again when it clearly failed?"

Maybe I'm just reading into it wrong, it's not like I'm trying to debate a person's preferences. I came into the thread thinking people were posting pictures of their characters (not unlike the "show your ____" threads) and found that instead this is a complaints thread, so I won't deny that might have disappointed me a bit lol


(late edit, off-topic, yes I almost exclusively only take pictures in the burn it's not even funny lol)

I wouldn't worry too much (though you never know).
The fourms is.....quite the echo chamber. People that are happy rarely have a reason to come here and say "I like the changes" I provided feedback from other sns because of this heavy lean against the update and people here DID NOT like that because they felt that SE might not change anything. (If you look at my posts you can see everybody trying to put words in my mouth and also dismiss everything I shown). I also like the update and I want to play with the new updated characters and lots of people are trying to change things before we even get a chance to/ they even get a chance to see if they'll get use to it.

I believe SE isn't going to adjust the characters anymore just based on Yoshi-p wording and knowing that there will be some differences which is why he's giving everybody a free fantasia but everybody is still pretty headstrong in not wanting the change. This on top of its honestly the same people complaining....even on the japanese side its kinda the same people because I noticed they posted before for the first benchmark and the JP also had a thread asking to not do the update and the slightly majority finally popped up to defended the graphics update.
Though most my feedback is for au ra I'll repost them and you can see the massive positive feedback they gotten and why I think SE won't change anything because I do think people like the changes more than they're against them. These have huge amount of likes, more than anything a negitive post have reached (trust me. I looked hard for a negative post and couldn't find one even close to the positive ones).
https://twitter.com/elimido12/status...45452600279183 5.9k
https://twitter.com/ppr_choco/status...44015141261431 5.7k Likes
https://twitter.com/kazula_ggnr/stat...92179143323929 2k Likes
https://twitter.com/Ms_irene8D/statu...82195567231397 1.8k Likes
https://twitter.com/monamomm/status/1797591808534565081 726 Likes
https://twitter.com/FF14_DAM_/status...38494518337772 435 Likes
https://twitter.com/cheliseul/status...31807631728770 358 Likes
https://twitter.com/rtn_ff14/status/1797610464484151617 488 Likes
https://twitter.com/bunnalien/status...57335541936579 1.5k Likes
https://twitter.com/JWFF14_/status/1797548707254243759 435 Likes
https://twitter.com/alicia_cresw/sta...27577999130802 432 Likes
https://twitter.com/yami_xiv/status/1797650861008801970 1k Likes
https://twitter.com/dawnmoon_ff/stat...90100186190140 724 Likes
https://twitter.com/Tsubaki422_ff14/...45236200767944 193 Likes
https://twitter.com/_ria_ff14/status...05862004572461 792 Likes
https://twitter.com/_ria_ff14/status...41511923495385 696 Likes
https://twitter.com/zer0wife/status/1797535040194388004 2.3k Likes
https://twitter.com/franandneo/statu...79029291372923 2.1k
https://twitter.com/VeleckVT/status/1798126792282460426
https://twitter.com/animefanrk2k/sta...50884976632028
https://twitter.com/spicywaifusauce/...32771475591219
https://twitter.com/Starthysta/statu...01889163305127
https://twitter.com/Liette96/status/1797705060883055078
https://twitter.com/Kriket_B/status/1797703885869678656
https://twitter.com/kaori_rokuyari/s...77169180840055
https://twitter.com/futurea_ffxiv/st...44574653030709
https://twitter.com/alexiareyesart/s...40657743528436
https://twitter.com/kikikajiriri/sta...59788186423430
https://twitter.com/H87762/status/1798488270948778065
https://twitter.com/hinahina01071/st...37942657376466
https://twitter.com/f_o_g_ff14/statu...22414844809287
https://twitter.com/Utatyan1321/stat...97001741488473
https://twitter.com/wh5dg/status/1797593183217766872
https://twitter.com/mamanowa_BnS/sta...66926589448631
https://twitter.com/CcS_lv/status/1797563376652234989
https://twitter.com/Rikuri_atau/stat...47906444222717
https://twitter.com/Luca_chocobo/sta...69104036012322
https://twitter.com/RipiCat/status/1797998969265721613
https://twitter.com/Azuriteien/statu...81928818467100
https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...ew_au_ra_eyes/

These are from the first benchmark 1.0
https://twitter.com/Moogiedaisuki/st...71727667077478 1.2k Likes - Elezen

https://twitter.com/piqffxiv/status/1779525816579416326 1.4 likes - Au ra

https://twitter.com/NINNYANG_/status...37478270967938 1.8 likes - Au ra

https://twitter.com/46sun/status/1779433791112757445 4.1k likes - Au ra

https://twitter.com/cobacci/status/1779569485223235866 500 likes - Au ra

https://twitter.com/46sun/status/1779431396723020160 630 likes - Au ra

https://twitter.com/46sun/status/1779444456779100461 739 likes - Au ra

https://twitter.com/starrdiver/statu...514143/photo/1 513 likes - Au ra

https://twitter.com/qalexiaffxiv/sta...26015631266105 - Elezen

https://twitter.com/MoonfallenFFXIV/...65388953964957 - Au ra

https://twitter.com/ShufieArt/status...61276063715363 - Au ra

https://twitter.com/TheSmolls/status...90597394813116 - Male Viera

https://twitter.com/RedBlackKnight7/...16206212415549 - Au ra

https://twitter.com/vtalon123/status...75804578947577 - Miqo'te

https://twitter.com/Yumi__FFXIV/stat...36655374139755 - Viera

https://twitter.com/MoonCatZara/stat...43553159848175 - Miqo'te

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme..._to_dawntrail/ - 687 likes - Roe

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...got_concerned/ -632 likes - Lalafell

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...g_your_camera/ - 932 likes - Au ra

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...ith_how_their/ - 65 likes - Male Au ra

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme..._my_duskwight/ - 518 likes - Elezen

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...ooking_gooood/ - 213 likes - Male Highlander

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...r_are_hot_now/ - 809 likes - Male Elezen and Male Midlander

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...ive_than_ever/ - 672 Likes - Miqo'te

So I think you can rest easy and knowing nothing is going to be vastly reverted. More so since...welll SE shown these new characters for 2 fan fests and there are a lot of people looking forward to them. I doubt they're going to just outright revert years of work for people that still won't be happy even if they changed the characters again. If 1.1 is still having people complain 1.2 won't either and this is even more risky because this will be for the live game so they won't even have another chance to change things. I said it before but they can't adjust characters once the game is now live. 1.1 is what we're getting and people just have to get use to it.

added some videos too if you want to see some popular ffxiv content creators like it too
https://youtu.be/rxlXrYkeRc4?t=179 (from the older benchmark)
https://youtu.be/oWByvmJXBks?t=4018 (Newer benchmark)

They offered many warnings that this would happen. And that no one should expect 1 to 1 in design.

People are going to keep bringing up what he said in the past as an argument even though he's NOW saying there are some small differences clearly.
"Even so, we imagine the subtle differences in nuance will inevitably cause some characters to look ever so slightly different compared to before. Should that be the case, a phial of Fantasia will be obtainable from a new quest that will be added with the release of Patch 7.0, which will allow you to fine-tune your character's appearance." Sorry I keep posting this but people are just not getting this and just totally ignoring this. Its really strange. (talking about the people that keep bringing up him saying characters will be adjusted little as possible). Not the people saying they just don't like the change.