Quote Originally Posted by Gyson View Post
The images in the original post are of extremely closeup shots - far closer than we typically have our camera to a character, I think.

I suspect they look perfectly fine when viewed at a realistic distance. FFXIV is one of the better looking MMOs out there.
Not quite. The ground is so bad you can see it even for afar. The armours need improvements too. Except if you play with a helicopter camera. FFXIV texture quality looks bad except if you compare it with MMORPG's that are years older. There are some newer ones which look better than FFXIV. Armors look dull and pixelated. Ground and mountains/rocks also look horrible and DX11 made some things worse. If you think that a ground which looks like muddy goo of some short is nice looking then yes it may be nice. Cutscenes also look very bad because the camera is always a bit closer. It's one of those things you think it's not a big deal unless you see them. the difference will be big and you will wonder why it wasn't a thing for so long.