Better graphics!

[Mugiawara]

Feel like the game looks good as is. my eyes kinda hurt at how nice it is on my new gaming pc.
since i switched from PS3 to PC @_@ i play on laptop high [i get a better fps boost] and i dont really see the diffence
in max settings sepct like 25-30 fps...but not real graphic difference.
now some mounts they have on here...aka the whm unicorn needs
to be under rainbow mountain a lil longer/
its mane texture and tails looks god dang awful.

[R1dder]

The mmo with the graphics of a single player game and you want more...
Let SE work with the content first, THEN they can go ahead and fix whatever can be fixed on the graphics.

[TheRogueX]

Curious (and this is all just hypothetical) - what's stopping them from completely rebuilding the 1.0 client (with it's graphics engine) to make it work with ARR? For purposes of graphics, I mean? Obviously they wouldn't be able to bring back the animations and such from 1.0, but they could just build on the skeleton and graphics engine from that client to give people with high-end machines a boost.

Keep in mind I'm not asking for them to use the old zone maps and such. I'm asking for a rebuild of a client - it's just a graphical front-end, after all. There would still be the smaller ARR zones, zone lines, instanced dungeons, simplified and faster character animations, etc, but we could have the amazing textures, meshes, and gear physics that 1.0 had while still enjoying ARR.

Ultimately, I'm guessing that money and time would be the only things keeping them from it. Possibly a stigma against anything 1.0, too.

[16bitBounty]

I just want prettier armor. Everything is so bland, robes are trash bags, we have like five skirts. Even the pretty armors, Foestrikers for instance, have this huge long flat texture from the waist down that clip like a razor blade through any mount you ride. I'll take better item design over better graphics. I want to feel like a bad ass not some rice farmer peddling my harvests in the slums.