graphic update?

[ryouma17]

they should revert to the FF7 original graphics where everyone has square arms

[Awarewolf]

they should revert to the FF7 original graphics where everyone has square arms

Even back then I was like, this looks ridiculous, I prefer sprites. I don't think it looked really good until FFX.

[White_Wolf_X]

Until ( if ever ) they upgrade the engine or make a new one ( unlikely ) i don't think is gonna get much better.

[Araxes]

Was wondering whether the dev team has any plans to upgrade the graphics. They are very outdated and I know for a fact this game would get even more players if the graphic looked how they look in Final Fantasy 7 remake.

The opposite actually. A lot of people wouldnt be able to play anymore and only a small part of the players would buy a new PC just to be able to Enjoy FF14. They would lose a ton of Costumers.

[Zileth]

The opposite actually. A lot of people wouldnt be able to play anymore and only a small part of the players would buy a new PC just to be able to Enjoy FF14. They would lose a ton of Costumers.

There are graphic settings lol people with potato's can still play even if the quality is increased unless SE decides to remove the potato mode. BDO has plenty of settings and so do many other games on PC. Its the consoles that might hold it up if they dont have different settings

[MsQi]

The opposite actually. A lot of people wouldnt be able to play anymore and only a small part of the players would buy a new PC just to be able to Enjoy FF14. They would lose a ton of Costumers.

incorrect, well not necessarily.

They tried, FFXIV 1.0 was the result

The whole "1.0 was bad because of good graphics" is an oversimplification.

[Eli85]

What are you going on about, OP? The graphics in this game are far, far from outdated. The only graphical-related problem are some lower quality textures (mostly occuring within armour). It would be nice to see that fixed, yes, but the graphics are far from outdated.

[Eriane_Elis]

Yoshi P commented before that at 6.0's release they would contemplate this but right now there's obviously a lot of other priorities going on. They also seem to be behind schedule by quite a bit so this is pretty far off their radar I'm sure. BUT with every patch they make improvements. Unfortunately they cannot update the textures without remaking them from scratch because 4k textures weren't even a conceivable thing when this game released. Even to this day it isn't for cross-platform support but that doesn't mean PC can't have that option one day. FF11 has a mod where someone used machine learning to upscale every texture to 4k or something like that. I never played FF11 but I did see the demo and it was pretty amazing and took the modder a couple of years to achieve.

The game looks fine as it is though, it may not have call of duty graphics but that doesn't matter. Maybe should they decide on the next FF MMORPG, they will have FF7R-like graphics but it won't be for this game. Adding features like raytracing does seem like an option though.

[MilkieTea]

I would prefer if the games graphics only had a HQ modification. I wouldn’t play if it ended up looking like FF-7, my computer would 100% not be able to handle it.

I also love how the game’s *style* looks too. FF-7R is a specific style, and much more different than this style. It’s actually closer to something like BDO.

[SigmaOZ]

Anyone defending this game's graphics is partially or completely blind, the game is 10+ year old rubbish, it was designed for PlayStation 3 at best, we are on PlayStation 5 time and we definitely need better graphics.


I don't know if most players like square or triangular limbs and butts, just look at the characters with their low-polygon count, they look really bad, only the face looks good, everything else is PS2/3 quality.


Unless many players complain about the graphics Square Enix will not move a finger to upgrade the game's "visual quality".


Upscaling textures is a poor method, we have seen over and over in older games, they look just slightly better but not enough to deserve praising.


We can definitely have FF7R quality models and graphics, they can find solutions to keep a good framerate without sacrificing visual quality but in their money making greed they won't bother as long as they continue to sell as much as they want.