shoddy work of squareenix

[Astyrah]

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the thing is, like 1.0 music, they probably have all 1.0 assets (models and textures etc.) archived somewhere. so all they have to do is convert them to the format the current FFXIV engine uses without downsizing the higher res textures and add them as an option for people who want better textures - i don't think that'll involve much (if any at all) sort of programming. i do believe this shouldn't take too much dev time and resources to do

EDIT: even for HW models, the textures for those are most likely made in HD resolution first and then downsized for release and every proper dev always has a backup or archive of their work