Is there a possibility of updating some of the textures?

[Elky]

Final Fantasy 14 is the most beautiful MMO I have ever played...until I zoom in. I've been playing on ps4 for a year and recently switched to pc. I expected the textures to be a bit better, but it seems thats the only thing to not change, even at max settings.

These textures include the ground, plant, monster, and some clothing textures. It just sort of sticks out I guess? When everything is beautiful and you throw in some poorly rendered ground textures, the ground will more likely to stick out. The plant/ground textures look like they came from the PS2 to be honest. Reminds me of the .hack games I played as a kid.
So maybe 4.0 we can see an update for this? Whats the point of having such a beautiful game if you're not going to fully commit to all aspects of the game?

Side note: Using consoles as an excuse isn't gonna fly. I'm pretty sure ps4 can handle an update,if not, consider giving PC some better graphic options? Ps3 is getting dropped so that doesn't matter.

[Frost_Tear]

Something like this?

[MrsFluffyButt]

As a PS4 user, streams of tears are running down my face as I know this will never be possible ;3;

[Riardon]

As a PS4 user, streams of tears are running down my face as I know this will never be possible ;3;

They are still working for DX11 like graphic features for PS4. (As PS4 can't use DX11 as it's an MS Windows API only but they will bring some visual features to PS4 so that the game will look similar to PC DX11 client).

[Enkidoh]

*sighs* Not this thread again...

Look, it's been discussed plenty of times in the past - FFXIV was developed with the emphasis on accessibility, especially making the game available to as many players as possible, meaning they wanted the game to run well on the widest possible selection of hardware, including low-end computers (case in point: although officially the minimum requirements for FFXIV ARR is Windows Vista, I can confirm it runs extremely well on even a low-end machine still running Windows XP Service Pack 3 with a measly 2gb of RAM and a video card from 7 years ago.). You simply would not have seen the 5 million+ subscribers ARR has if SE limited their focus to those with $5000 top-of-the-heap gaming rigs. SE tried making FFXIV more for high end graphic-intensive machines once before and... well, we all know how that turned out.

Besides, even Yoshi himself said that SE has had the "graphics disease" for too long (in other words, obsessed with producing beautiful looking games... at the expense of everything else, like story, characters, gameplay... you know, what an actual game consists of.), which is the thinking that doomed FFXIV 1.0 before it was even launched. And because ARR's whole purpose was to fix the problems with 1.0, graphics are hence the trade-off for focusing on gameplay and story, it's one of those "can't have your cake and eat it too" deals.

And as Yoshi is also a big fan of the older style FF games (he's on record as saying his favourites are FFIII and VII), I don't think you will see any major change in the graphic engine any time soon... if at all.

[SpookyGhost]

Besides, even Yoshi himself said that SE has had the "graphics disease" for too long (in other words, obsessed with producing beautiful looking games... at the expense of everything else, like story, characters, gameplay... you know, what an actual game consists of.)

Then Yoshi is bananas as that's never been the case for any main series FF game. Sounds more like an excuse to get away with using poor quality textures/models, reusing all the assets they can, etc. especially since the examples you gave of what they should focus on (story, characters, gameplay) are all equally poorly constructed. Dunno why I'm posting this on a forum where only paying subscribers can post, but whatever, doesn't make it less true. When accessibility starts harming game quality you run into a massive problem for those that aren't running it on PS3 or a toaster. Fortunately everyone thinks they're a business major so they "understand" SE's predicament and ignore all the glaring flaws XIV has.

[Noxifer]

Then Yoshi is bananas as that's never been the case for any main series FF game.

*coughFF13cough*

[AsteriaStarfall]

*sighs* Not this thread again...

Look, it's been discussed plenty of times in the pastl.

And as it has also been discussed, simply release the high rez texture pack for the PC players that can actually utilize it. Seriously, there is zero reason not to do this. Why invest in a high performance machine when companies are constantly using lower texture packs? Should we just go back to 8-bit games. It's time to step up and push the limits of our machines, and for those using older equipment or consoles, no big deal, you can continue to use the lower textures. But just release all the textures so those that can actually use them can do so.

[Elky]

*sighs* Not this thread again...


And as Yoshi is also a big fan of the older style FF games (he's on record as saying his favourites are FFIII and VII), I don't think you will see any major change in the graphic engine any time soon... if at all.

Major change in the graphics engine? How is updating the crappy floor textures a major change? Why do higher end machines need to suffer because of the lower end ones? Why can't I have the option to have higher, or lower textures? I'm not suggestinga forced change for everyone, I am suggesting options for people that can have high resolution textures. Why use the arguement of making the textures suffer for the sake of gameplay and "story"? Making the ground look a little better is not the biggest request that I have seen posted here.

[ScarletDawn]

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A game does not instantly require a HD pack to run, you can toggle or disable HD texture packs at will these days so low end users can play without the need, while high end players get what they want, WIN WIN WIN.