Quote Originally Posted by OcieKo View Post
2: Improve the Graphics: this is more of an issue with maintaining a reasonable min specs. PS3 support being dropped is a beginning step here, and quite frankly this game doesnt look bad enough to warrant this big of an overhaul. Also CG graphics are nearing an indefinite plateau, its more of an issue of the speed of rendering and the cost efficiency of production. Only MMO i know of that has done a major graphics overhaul was EQ1 in Shadows of Luclin expansion, even than i think some parts of the game werent actually finished being redone for a few more expacs.
Two other MMOs that have had massive visual upgrades that I know of are WoW and runescape, both of which are many years old and had to do so to keep current. You are right that XIV has no real need, and even then I'd say that stormblood has indeed had a visual upgrade, compare the models of gosetsu and lyse in 3.55 to some of the ARR models and you can see a definite improvement in poly count.

For reference on WoW and runescape: