DX 11 : D

[Ildur]

Other than that whats the deal with low res textures anyway, lightning effects is the important thing here. We re in 2014 and Pixel Art games are also still a BIG deal. Not everything have to be top notch on the pure technic side.

It's an aesthetic clash. Pixel art games don't need to look particularly good because they can more easily pass as a 'art design choice', which they often are. ARR goes for a realistic look, though, and that's why pixelated textures are a bad idea: they clash with all the other aethetic choices. If you go look at a wall in Ul'dah or at your character's face, you don't really notice the pixels the same way you do with armor. Maybe if you zoom real close to your face you'll notice the pixelation, but for your armor? Go put on a dalmatica or a cowl and look at the pattern. Or with the Darklight cowls, too. If you don't notice the pixelation with those, then you probably will never see any pixelation ever.
If you want to notice the difference, you could go look at Minecraft texture packs. Find one that is 16x16, and then find one that is 64x64. Tell me you don't notice the difference. You don't even need the game, since texture packs often come with screenshots.

Also, they could give high resolution texture support for the PC and the PS4, even if they can't do that with the PS3 because of its limitation. There's nothing stopping them from doing that.

[C-croft]

Sadly, I called this when that interview had come out. Surprised people still thought they would be implementing high res textures. I remember in the past, Beta forums I think, they had mentioned that some of the textures were getting a boost. The interview left me a little sad. I guess I will sit back with my popcorn when DX11 is released and people are in an outrage over the textures.

[Marveth]

The graphics in this game is an insult to my computer.

[Simurgi]

The graphics in this game are gorgeous if you have the hardware to run it.

[Naunet]

The graphics in this game are gorgeous if you have the hardware to run it.

No amount of hardware is going to make the low resolution armor textures any higher in resolution.

[Nekodar]

No amount of hardware is going to make the low resolution armor textures any higher in resolution.

Are you really playing with camera zoomed in so much that you can see the low res?

Myself I only zoom in if I want to check out the looks of my gear. For actually playing I have camera zoomed out as much as possible, so I can see what actually happens in a larger area around my character.

[Naunet]

Are you really playing with camera zoomed in so much that you can see the low res?

Myself I only zoom in if I want to check out the looks of my gear. For actually playing I have camera zoomed out as much as possible, so I can see what actually happens in a larger area around my character.

You don't have to zoom in very much for it to be glaringly obvious - especially on things like the darklight cowls, or other items with pattern details.

[NyneAlexander]

This is kind of BS. Its 2014, and we are in the era of crowd-sourcing. Allow the players/modders to develop high res textures and bottleneck the submissions through a temporary team at square-enix. Give the contributors some sort of unique in-game reward. I bet we'd have hi-res textures in less than a week.

[LlenCoram]

This is kind of BS. Its 2014, and we are in the era of crowd-sourcing. Allow the players/modders to develop high res textures and bottleneck the submissions through a temporary team at square-enix. Give the contributors some sort of unique in-game reward. I bet we'd have hi-res textures in less than a week.

And maybe proper 1.0 character models while we're at it.

I want my hips back!

[Skyl1n3]

This is kind of BS. Its 2014, and we are in the era of crowd-sourcing. Allow the players/modders to develop high res textures and bottleneck the submissions through a temporary team at square-enix. Give the contributors some sort of unique in-game reward. I bet we'd have hi-res textures in less than a week.

I can imagine plenty of people making huge asses packs :P