Thread: FFXIV 1.0 graphics

Originally Posted by adam92682

I'm just saying I expect the graphics to be better now and am willing to buy any videocard required regardless of price.

Well that's good for you but other people exist on this planet and they must be considered too

Originally Posted by adam92682

Everyone wants them to bring back the graphics from the original game. That game was from 2010 so even if they did bring them back they would still be four years outdated.

Because they don't want to cut two thirds of the sub-base off from the ability to play without a 600 dollar investment? Also, PS3.

PS graphics are fine. Best of a lot of MMO's I've played recently. Some are just downright ugly.

Originally Posted by Sylve

Because they don't want to cut two thirds of the sub-base off from the ability to play without a 600 dollar investment? Also, PS3.

PS graphics are fine. Best of a lot of MMO's I've played recently. Some are just downright ugly.

This is the PC. have you never heard of scalable graphics? Loads of games now offer 'optional' high res texture packs, if you have a low end PC you can still run the game at the bare minimum.

Originally Posted by Felis

you mean like this?

yes, like that. I have seen that, normally on cards that are below the minimum specifications. In fact, i do believe that the current game would not run on a system that required you to play at that low level of detail in 1.0

Rather than cut down all of the graphics so that the window spanning hardware is the same size, i would have liked to have seen the graphics we currently have as the low end and allowed those of us who are willing to spend $1200 on an upgrade to have super high end graphics. Yes, the lighting effects are much nicer, but we cant even have nice shadows anymore. have you seen what the highest resolution tree shadows look like?

Originally Posted by Felis

you mean like this?

What are your specs back then?

Besides, I think you tweaked your configuration wrong. Even on my laptop which has Core2Duo 1.6 mhz with Nvidia G210M, I still could manage getting good graphic.

This is example taken from my laptop:


And here's me saying goodbye to 1.0 forever on Dec 31, 2012 23:57

Originally Posted by Kule

This is the PC. have you never heard of scalable graphics? Loads of games now offer 'optional' high res texture packs, if you have a low end PC you can still run the game at the bare minimum.

Thisthisthisthisthis. There's no reason not to offer high resolution textures as an option for those who can run it. >_> Hell, World of Warcraft has better texture resolution than this game.