it's the engine, sadly its bad in the distance (never seen such bad low res textures) or very good close. The problem is that "close" really is too close and teh blurry ugly textures are not far enough away not to be recognized.

DOF doesnt help with that suff . Where other games have like 3-4 steps from low to high res textures. FFxiv has just one step, ugly and nice. I'm really hoping they are gonna change a lot of the ugly foiliage and the ugly textures in the "close" distance in the future or make it at least an option in the graphic menu.