That 'Rising Vendor'....

[MrsFluffyButt]

Who else remembers that face?
1.0 Minfilia, that you?

[MilesSaintboroguh]

She appears in every Rising.

[Aryalandi]

Its intentional, it is a celebration of FFXIV as a whole
You can also make your own character look like her
Then increase your bust to max and switch to the Minfilia gear set and hairstyle and you are more or less the current Minfilias twin.

[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

[Kurogaea]

Who else remembers that face?
1.0 Minfilia, that you?

pssst, all midlanders look the same. : o

[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.

[Neo_Stubs]

I think textures were simplified for the sake of the ps3 folk.

[Mysteltain]

I think textures were simplified for the sake of the ps3 folk.

...and mid to low-end PCs when ARR launched. And I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't have the same budget as 1.0 to burn on graphics. And probably a few other reasons.

(The "PS3 limitations" spiel has been a lame excuse for nearly everything since ARR came out, so I and many others are kinda bored of it).