That 'Rising Vendor'....

[Alexander_Dragonfang]

1.0 textures were so much better tho...

[MilesSaintboroguh]

1.0 textures were so much better tho...

Though that excess bloom and shine ruins it.

[Altera]

1.0 textures were so much better tho...

Yes, and I can assure you it was also why even superPCs couldnt run it on Max. I had a pretty beefy PC back in 1.0 and i simply had settings on Standard due to otherwise FPS would be like 30 or less in normal crowded areas, and only about 30-50 people MAX was visible. You had to move around to see others, and see the other ones vanish from sight xD
I think they used the GFX engine that was used in FF XIII, which is a great engine for a singleplayer FF, but not so much a MMO. Hence the complete rebuild of the engine for ARR

[Jynx]

Yes, and I can assure you it was also why even superPCs couldnt run it on Max.

It wasn't because of the texture quality I can tell you that. There were allot of things wrong with the engine textures had nothing to do with that.