please reconsider this character graphical update

[Kolsykol]

Are we looking at the same pictures? To me, they look almost the same as before, just with higher res textures and better lighting and shadows.

Pretty much, it's way less drastic than the graphical update for WoW.
I think WoW nowadays looks way better than it used to but it definitely looks significantly different.

The pics they showed just looked like better versions of what we've got right now.

[LisSquid]

Pretty much, it's way less drastic than the graphical update for WoW.
I think WoW nowadays looks way better than it used to but it definitely looks significantly different.

The pics they showed just looked like better versions of what we've got right now.

To be fair, they were also building off of 2004 assets to begin with. While tech has exploded exponentially, the ARR models were built off of stronger foundations. The update that took place in WoD was more dramatic because it had to be, but ARR just needed some good TLC (and better lighting!!) It was also because they were remaking models with so few polygons that people had projected the missing details onto, while FFXIV models are pretty detailed from the get go.