Breaking down some of the screenshots

[Jekyll]

And you're a lalafell? The bushes feel like a jungle, you can almost get lost in them!

I will make it a point to spend at least 5 minutes of every day inside a bush.

That's true. But you can't really judge gameplay from a screenshot. In this thread, we are just judging the screenshots, not gameplay. And from screenshots obviously 2.0 graphics are worse than current FFXIV graphics, the improved shadows notwithstanding.

While I agree these may not necessarily reflect improved gameplay, I think saying that 2.0 graphics are worse than current ones based on screenshots of unknown resolution is a bit premature.

[bobbygunz]

While I agree these may not necessarily reflect improved gameplay, I think saying that 2.0 graphics are worse than current ones based on screenshots of unknown resolution is a bit premature.

Well if it's not too presumptuous of me to say, i think S.E. would show off their highest settings, not their lowest. So that emboldens me to believe these screenshots reflect what we can expect from 2.0 on release. But that's just a logical analysis of the situation. Knowing S.E., I suppose there could be an alternative situation where 2.0 has the same texture resolution and polygon count as our current game but with dynamic shadows too, but somehow I don't trust that prediction.