Method of delivery > Point being made.

PERFORMANCE OF GRAPHICS >>>>>>>> Actual quality of texture.

If taking the textures down a noch is the price we pay for a better preforming game, then I shall eat it gladly.

Bobby's reactions to it, are at best, overblown - as the average player cannot even run the game at the highest graphic point anyways. If he is so elitist that his super-personal-build computer doesn't look 20 years above the average model. Then he's fine to go. It has long been a criticism of Square Enix that they emphasize graphics over game-play too much. Going the other way around for once is not something anyone should be complaining about