Grass

[Shioban]

Yeah so character models can look like crap too, and the buildings.. No wait.. they cant.

People who post like this have no idea what they are talking about. Every element is important. You dont halfass things.

Its normal for an MMO, even under the brand name of Final Fantasy to make compromises like this. Performance is always a concern over visual fidelity. No matter how much baby rattles his cage, its always the first consideration, "Will this impact gameplay?" In theory it could, yes.

Another problem may be that there 'are' no high resolution textures for the grass, they may have been produced at that resolution (unlikely) therefore making it a task of re-doing all the displacement textures.

Also, grass isn't really high on the "To-Do" list for a 2-year game remake, i'd say.

"Just saying"