Can we please have more options to lower graphics settings?

[VenKitsune]

Somehow accidentally deleted my post instead of editing it, derp.

Benchmarks sometimes don't quite take heat into account because very often the duration of the benchmark itself is far shorter than a gaming session. So you might get an okay enough result for a benchmark, but in an actual gaming session you might find that the longer you play the worse your performance gets due to heat issues.

Certainly the FFXIV benchmarks are far shorter than most people would play in a normal gaming session.

I'm sorry but if your computer can run the benchmark perfectly fine, but not the game due to "heat issues" thats a problem with the computer and only something you can fix by blowing out dust or re-applying thermal paste. SE don't need to add lower graphical options for an almost decade old game just because you're too lazy to maintain your PC/console by blowing through it with compressed air every few years.

not a "worse case scenario" ...at all

Benchmarks aren't there to do anything except show you how your computer performs while doing whatever said benchmark does. In this instance, playing a game. You can change settings to get better worse performance so you know where you are comfortable playing at (is it grainy etc) anyways yea

THATS why its called a benchmark, because the user can use it AS A BENCHMARK TO SEE HOW

This is hardly true. You know why? Because you dont "play" anything while you're running the benchmark - its running through a sequence, its a basis for standardised performance and thus if you can only just about get 30fps on the lowest settings on a benchmark, you cant expect the actual game, with you PLAYING and INTERACTING with it, to be as such, therefore, its a worst case scenario, or by some measures even a best case scenario.