Problem is the low res textures are obvious even when you don't zoom in. Cut-scenes look pretty bad. Mountains/terrain and armors/mount's skin look rly low res. They could implement it and people on consoles and old/weak PCs can still keep using the current ones. It can be an optional download for those who want it. Texture res is kinda too low for this time and age (speaking at least for PC). It's one of those things you think you are fine without until you actually see it and then realize how bad it looked before. I think the game will further be improved visually the next years and there MIGHT be a chance we will finally see better textures but until we have a strong hint from the Dev team I'm not expecting anything to be improved. For now I wish they would fix the horribly flickering shadows on DX11 which are broken for quite some time now (see tech support forums for this issue).