Seriously, you are calling this a graphic update?

[Nebelheim]

I like how my character looks and my viera looked pretty much the same before I changed to hrothgar. The graphics got a decent boost in textures and lighting but it also doesn't seem like a significant boost to what we had before.

[Avina]

Since I started playing this game 1 changed only 1 thing on my character, which was the color of the scales to dark blue. I have not changed anything since than, not even the hair style. Nothing. I saw the same character for years, I got to love her looks and mood which is completely ruined now.
I can't even get myself to start the MSQ because my character will not be in the cut scenes.

[noumen0nn]

Since I started playing this game 1 changed only 1 thing on my character, which was the color of the scales to dark blue. I have not changed anything since than, not even the hair style. Nothing. I saw the same character for years, I got to love her looks and mood which is completely ruined now.
I can't even get myself to start the MSQ because my character will not be in the cut scenes.

It is utterly baffling to me how people can look at comparisons like these and go "i DoNt SeE tHe DifFeReNcE". Why is her mouth like 30% shorter horizontally? Why did they upturn her nose? Where is her eyeliner?

I'm with you. I had to stop playing MSQ so that I wouldn't have to see my new face in cutscenes. Hope the devs are happy about all the players who feel the same way.

[angelar_]

Since I started playing this game 1 changed only 1 thing on my character, which was the color of the scales to dark blue. I have not changed anything since than, not even the hair style. Nothing. I saw the same character for years, I got to love her looks and mood which is completely ruined now.
I can't even get myself to start the MSQ because my character will not be in the cut scenes.

I have not seen a MMO on the planet that can just do a 1:1 graphics fidelity increase without doing things like "OH uh well Maybe we should double with width of this lip--why, you ask? _____________________________ "

[Fawkes]

Did my forum profile picture get like three times as much lighting as everybody else?

[Kes13a]

u asking me accept them so thatu dont have to go without them, not because i im okay with them. my character isnt some small deal to me, and these changes are ruining all of my plates, and my love of my character which is at its core. the main thing that keeps me here. i shouldnt need to accept this because 3 days ago, this wasnt how it was. so yes. i want this deleted and put back on the burner. it hasnt worked. its universally hated. and now -people are fighting just to stop it getting worse. also the blm changes are gone when u change job, mine are gone if a chnage race, thats no small ask for somebody who is invested in there charatcer

I think "universally hated" is a bit strong. on the forums it has people up in arms, but I dont hear anything about it in game. if it was universally hated, people would be complaining in game about it as well.

[noumen0nn]

I think "universally hated" is a bit strong. on the forums it has people up in arms, but I dont hear anything about it in game. if it was universally hated, people would be complaining in game about it as well.

The reason you don't see that is because, in the game and on other social media, the majority of the community is psychotically opposed to anything negative being said about the game. Players have learned this, and a lot of us keep our mouths shut outside of the forums so that we don't get dogpiled for suggesting things should improve.

[Striker44]

It is utterly baffling to me how people can look at comparisons like these and go "i DoNt SeE tHe DifFeReNcE". Why is her mouth like 30% shorter horizontally? Why did they upturn her nose? Where is her eyeliner?

I'm with you. I had to stop playing MSQ so that I wouldn't have to see my new face in cutscenes. Hope the devs are happy about all the players who feel the same way.

This is one of those things that different people will just see differently. When I see these comparison pictures, I feel like I'm doing one of those newspaper cartoons of the "find 6 differences between the photos" because to my eyes, there's nothing immediately obvious. In the screenshots Avina linked, the only one I was able to spot was the lips, and that's only because I was looking for differences. The nose I would have never noticed if you didn't point it out, and even with you mentioning the eyeliner, I still don't see it.

I do remember when WoW did its own graphics update, and yes, I noticed the changes in my character's face and it was off-putting at first. Once I came to accept that it's a video game and that's the way of it, though, it was more just the "not liking change" that really meant anything, and I got used to the new look fairly quick. If things like this are "completely ruining" someone's experience playing a video game, maybe it is time to step back for a bit and take a breather.

[noumen0nn]

This is one of those things that different people will just see differently. When I see these comparison pictures, I feel like I'm doing one of those newspaper cartoons of the "find 6 differences between the photos" because to my eyes, there's nothing immediately obvious. In the screenshots Avina linked, the only one I was able to spot was the lips, and that's only because I was looking for differences. The nose I would have never noticed if you didn't point it out, and even with you mentioning the eyeliner, I still don't see it.

I do remember when WoW did its own graphics update, and yes, I noticed the changes in my character's face and it was off-putting at first. Once I came to accept that it's a video game and that's the way of it, though, it was more just the "not liking change" that really meant anything, and I got used to the new look fairly quick. If things like this are "completely ruining" someone's experience playing a video game, maybe it is time to step back for a bit and take a breather.

I've said this before and I'll say it again: if many or even most players don't notice the differences, that's all the more reason for them to make changes that will bring the faces back in line with their previous appearances, for the benefit those of us who do and are unhappy.

[KageTokage]

I think more then anything else there needs to be a way to totally disable the improved lighting/shadows because at present, I have to turn things down so much that the game actually looks worse then it did before but still don't get consistent 60 FPS in low traffic areas anymore.