does anyone else not play xiv as much as before after dt?

[Clockworks]

I play FFXIV lot less now due to 7.0 graphics update (which is complete mess) that cause my eyes feel very uncomfortable after playing around 45 minutes (i really wish i had ability to turn god afwul FSR off completely, ability to turn certain graphics settings off and of course have a in-game brightness setting) and other reason is that normal group content these days is just so bad and so boring.

Before some start saying to me that the graphics update is just fine and the problem is on my eyes, note that before 7.0 graphics update i did able to play FFXIV +6 hours everyday easily without any problems.

I genuinely think we should have reached a point when we stopped calling this graphical update an actual update.

Most character models have been made worse or literally the same as before, almost all areas that were "updated" have their sky filled with a weird thick fog, sea of clouds is a great example of that as I mentioned earlier in this thread or another I'm not sure, those things amongst other negatives of this ""update"".

The game in general isnt any better because of this so called graphical update, the time they spent on this mediocre update could have been used for literally anything else but this.

[Eyrilona]

I genuinely think we should have reached a point when we stopped calling this graphical update an actual update.

Most character models have been made worse or literally the same as before, almost all areas that were "updated" have their sky filled with a weird thick fog, sea of clouds is a great example of that as I mentioned earlier in this thread or another I'm not sure, those things amongst other negatives of this ""update"".

The game in general isnt any better because of this so called graphical update, the time they spent on this mediocre update could have been used for literally anything else but this.

I must at least in part agree, for something they spent two years hype on, the graphics update has not impressed me much. Scenes do look a little more lively due to them being able to put more items into the zone map, but it's barely even playing catch-up with modern titles not hindered by running on legacy engines. So unless they were going to change out the engine entirely, maybe it would have been better for them to acknowledge that graphics were never going to be something at which this game could match other titles of a decade later, and they should have invested in the gameplay instead?

[Lilapop]

I genuinely think we should have reached a point when we stopped calling this graphical update an actual update.

Most character models have been made worse or literally the same as before, almost all areas that were "updated" have their sky filled with a weird thick fog, sea of clouds is a great example of that as I mentioned earlier in this thread or another I'm not sure, those things amongst other negatives of this ""update"".

The game in general isnt any better because of this so called graphical update, the time they spent on this mediocre update could have been used for literally anything else but this.

Objectively, the game is better, particularly in ARR zones. I also happen to like my character.