Quote Originally Posted by aemon_azucar View Post
Unless, of course, someone is attached specifically to some aspect of the graphics that is objectively of lower quality. Which is certainly a possibility. Graphical updates and improvements can remove something someone really liked, even if it was technically inferior display or presentation. E.g., I've seen folks annoyed about the "loss" of facial hair from the scruffy-hyur WoL-style face...except that that face was always meant to represent barely-there stubble, not full facial hair. The new graphics much more closely represent what the scruffy-faced WoL looks like in past trailer videos, but folks are upset because they had grown attached to the it-looks-like-full-facial-hair thing.

Sometimes, it is literally not possible to improve graphics and avoid upsetting someone. "They changed it, now it sucks" is a trope for a reason.
I'd argue that if you can't upgrade the graphics without affecting the unique visual identity and style of characters that players have been attached to and playing for literal years, then you shouldn't be 'upgrading' the graphics in the first place.

Why can't it be a character option so people can keep the look they have always had? Have the 'objectively better' loss of facial hair as an option, and the 'objectively worse' scruffy look as an option so people can keep their same style if they want to. If anyone should be compromising, I believe it is the developers, whose goal should be to improve the graphics without completely changing how characters look.