Breaking down some of the screenshots

[Laraul]

WHAT LOW RESOLUTION TEXTURES?!? I see NONE! Less than those in the present game. WHAT ARE YOU PEOPLE LOOKING AT? Are you people referring to the foliage and shrubbery not being in ultra-high detail? I mean one person refers to "low resolution textures" and everyone assumes the game has "low resolution textures." You just are seeing what you WANT to see.

[AlphaDragoon]

WHAT LOW RESOLUTION TEXTURES?!? I see NONE! Less than those in the present game. WHAT ARE YOU PEOPLE LOOKING AT? Are you people referring to the foliage and shrubbery not being in ultra-high detail? I mean one person refers to "low resolution textures" and everyone assumes the game has "low resolution textures." You just are seeing what you WANT to see.

Specifically, people are talking about the ground and rock textures closeup. The current ground textures in Thanalan look normal mapped, while the ones in the 2.0 screenshot look almost like they're just textures.

I noticed as soon as I saw the 2.0 screens. If those screens are indeed how it looks when the game is run at the recommended settings, then I'd say the textures did get a minor downgrade. It's well worth it to give up some of the detail to achieve the variety in design we're getting and the game still looks amazing, possibly even more so thanks to the real-time lighting upgrades, but let's not pretend like it isn't there.

[Laraul]

Specifically, people are talking about the ground and rock textures closeup. The current ground textures in Thanalan look normal mapped, while the ones in the 2.0 screenshot look almost like they're just textures.

I noticed as soon as I saw the 2.0 screens. If those screens are indeed how it looks when the game is run at the recommended settings, then I'd say the textures did get a minor downgrade. It's well worth it to give up some of the detail to achieve the variety in design we're getting and the game still looks amazing, possibly even more so thanks to the real-time lighting upgrades, but let's not pretend like it isn't there.

But changing the texture setting from highest to lowest actually does nothing. You get the exact same textures regardless of that setting. And there are no screen shots that show the ground or rocks extremely closeup. At least not head on. Maybe people who say the game is full of low res textures run with DoF off. That would possibly explain why people say the textures are low res. No one has seen the game in action either. Who are we to judge based on a few screen shots of completely different rendered scenes.

Have you seen the Inn in the current game? Have you not noticed that it's nothing but low res textures? And it's premature to judge the looks of a game that's not finished. Especially if you don't know what you are looking at. I don't even know if these images are from the game or conceptual renderings. I can tell you they aren't PS3 picts cuz all the screenshots are 1600x900. I can also tell you that it's highly unlikely SE or any one trying to promote a game would show it running less than at it's best. So why would you run it at "standard" or "low" settings?

Oh yeah, let's not forget that FFXIV launched looking the same as it does now. I don't think graphics should be the thing on the top of the agenda. Right now, my opinion of anyone who says that the graphics aren't "good enough" are f**king idiots. SE should never release screen shots again to you people.

I am really mad if you haven't noticed and i'm going to go lie down in the corner for a while.

[Jocko]

You just are seeing what you WANT to see.

Oh, the irony

[bobbygunz]

WHAT LOW RESOLUTION TEXTURES?!? I see NONE! Less than those in the present game. WHAT ARE YOU PEOPLE LOOKING AT? Are you people referring to the foliage and shrubbery not being in ultra-high detail? I mean one person refers to "low resolution textures" and everyone assumes the game has "low resolution textures." You just are seeing what you WANT to see.

Are you BLIND? Look at the ground. It's a flat surface tile with one or two different colours. . Look at the aliased edges around everything.

Everyone's blind.