Quote Originally Posted by Freyyy View Post
Is it me or the whole graphic quality was way better in 1.0 ? I didn't play 1.0 but everytime I see pictures of it I find it way more beautiful than what the game looks like now.

A little example that I found on Google by just typing FFXIV 1.0 :



The lighting seems better, the shadows look better, the hair looks like actual hair, the textures seem to look better too. Looks like an upgraded version of what we have here. Wtf happened ?
1.0 did not run very well on low end computers and I don't think it would ever have run on the PS3. So they dropped the polygon count on everything, made low Res textures, changed lighting and other things and launched it as the new and improved version of the game.

In some ways. 2.0 was better than 1.0, in others, 1.0 was better.