They overpromised a lot imo. And I'm surprised how many people believed it too that they can successfully overhaul a decade's worth of assets whilst their team was also juggling development of a AAA FF game at the same time and expecting to maintain consistency across the board. Have been playing this game since ARR and been present for every expansion launch and have barely experienced many bugs but DT really took the cake - there hasn't been a day of login without some kind of graphical glitch be it texture seams clearly visible , lighting breaks , animation jank , glamour pieces not stacking proper and just straight disappearing or even smth as outlandish as my friend seeing her hair just randomly turn white out of nowhere whilst running a CE in Bozja lol.

Did they update some of the armour texture? Yes. Do the new areas have more crisp renders aswell? Yes. Do some of the new hairs look nice with the new textures? Yes. Are some of the spell effects cleaner and more shiny? Yes.

But as many as those shiny new things are added - so many other old ones remain and stick out like a sore thumb even more than they ever did before and absolutely ruin the game's stylistic and texture cohesion.

I had a couple side quests remaining from Endwalker that I decided to wrap up before proceeding with more MSQ and it was just painful going through the cutscenes for it now. The clash of glassy HD eye textures and hair next to huge paint by number pixels on gear is just bonkers. Hell even on my WoL he suffers from the same thing where his facial scars and eyes are with updated textures but the clan tattoos on his face are still in a lower resolution and every close up shot with him feels jarring.

Here's some screenshots I took whilst running the quests.





Even Tataru got the outfit update treatment but they still left that giant goddamn feather on her hat in 20 pixels.

People wanted this after seeing Pixel Exarch but now so much more is going to look even more egregiously like him EVEN in MSQ. I don't have the screenshots but as Derio mentioned earlier its just a mindboggling decision to have a main character in the new story like Koana sport a 5 pixel belt buckle robe next to Wuk Lamat that's covered in glistening smooth gold jewellery , literally sharing the same scene. The inconsistency drives me insane. Where was any of the QA for this? Why did people lose so many facial features that made their WoLs as they are to STILL experience things like this? How can you say that sacrifice is worth it at all?