FFXIV patch content in a nutshell

[Nebelheim]

You joke but I know plenty of people who genuinely believe this is a fair and much needed trade off. People are very serious about their graphics. I know another faction of people that would sacrifice an entire patch just to get chat bubbles as a built-in feature of the game outside mods. I don't agree with giving up content for other things but trust me when I say there are people who would think it's a worthy price to pay.

Cutting content for an entire expansion with not much to do isn't that good of a trade off for a graphics update when the graphics update doesn't look like it's that much of an improvement over what we currently have. There only updating the shaders lighting and slightly updating textures to most likely native 1080p instead of the ps3 muddy textures we have now. Which the lighting/shaders portion just looks like there applying gshade/reshade filters on top of what we have so it's more likely they are taking what the modders are doing with shaders and taking ideas and applying those ideas to the game.