You complain about FFXIV grass? Skyrim has better! :(

[Shougun]

You're kinda missing the point, but nevermind.

The only real solution to all this would be to make FFXIV graphics moddable, being an MMO I highly doubt this would be possible on a greater scale and user-changes will be limited through the use of (officially illegal) .dat editing,

I'm not sure I agree with the point :P

SE claims to have the best looking MMO. Dont half ass the best looking lol

Make a sucky grass model for eh computers but there are a lot of computers out there that can handle much more then what even SE handed out in FFXIV 1.0.

Things like flora decals and density are often sliders in games - I see no reason why they cant do that now

[Stanislaw]

I'm not sure I agree with the point :P

SE claims to have the best looking MMO. Dont half ass the best looking lol

Best looking does not necessarily mean it has to have the best graphics in all categories. We already all know that the renders are of lower quality in ARR compared to legacy, but the lighting/shadows more than makes up for it to make it a much better looking game graphically speaking.

Make a sucky grass model for eh computers but there are a lot of computers out there that can handle much more then what even SE handed out in FFXIV 1.0.

So what you're essentially saying is that SE should create different quality versions of the same graphics so players with the appropriate specs can enjoy greater graphics quality in the game. I'll see you in 2015, then.

[Shougun]

Best looking does not necessarily mean it has to have the best graphics in all categories. We already all know that the renders are of lower quality in ARR compared to legacy, but the lighting/shadows more than makes up for it to make it a much better looking game graphically speaking.

No, but when you are going for a high fantasy realism and a lot of your flora looks like paper origami.. it might be good to make another model. (WoW does it too - and I get why of course, more players that can play).

So what you're essentially saying is that SE should create different quality versions of the same graphics so players with the appropriate specs can enjoy greater graphics quality in the game. I'll see you in 2015, then.

For pieces of content that you cant really scale (because its 2d) then at some later make another one. Skyrim's grass isnt just in Skyrim there many games that have that kind of grass - its not some technical rare piece of model work.

Even Dark Souls that ran on the ps3 has a similar type of grass (though their tree leaves are super 2d lol).

Anyway like I said previously when they get time they should consider it.

[Stanislaw]

No, but when you are going for a high fantasy realism and a lot of your flora looks like paper origami.. it might be good to make another model.

Sorry, couldn't help but point out that oxymoron because I thought it was just too funny.

The grass looks like paper origami because it's fantasy, man! /sarcasm

Anyway like I said previously when they get time they should consider it.

In the end this is what it boils down to. Given the amount of time they had to work on the game, though, I'm content with what they have.

[Shougun]

Sorry, couldn't help but point out that oxymoron because I thought it was just too funny.

You can laugh all you want but there is such a thing.

In the end this is what it boils down to. Given the amount of time they had to work on the game, though, I'm content with what they have.

Given the total time I think its silly, but I understand 2.0 has started in an extremely short amount of time. Hence why I said if it must add it later, but it will be good for graphic longevity.

[Naraku_Diabolos]

I'm not sure I agree with the point :P

SE claims to have the best looking MMO. Dont half ass the best looking lol

Make a sucky grass model for eh computers but there are a lot of computers out there that can handle much more then what even SE handed out in FFXIV 1.0.

Things like flora decals and density are often sliders in games - I see no reason why they cant do that now

I will mention that when I had my old laptop with the GeForce 9600M GT, the foliage really caused my game to lag like crazy. Especially outside of Limsa Lominsa; my game ran incredibly slow, even though the foliage was very low-resolution. My God it was like utter hell there. Even my desktop at the time could not process the game, and it had a GeForce 260 GTX along with a good 1st gen I7 that is high-spec and 8GB of RAM. Though everyone knows that the graphics engine for 1.0 wasn't utilized the right way, so we can all agree on that