Was This Graphical Update Necessary?

[Cookiemami]

I have to agree about the housing. When I enter my house the FPS drops drastically and I can barely move. The lighting difference in the housing is definately seen but the housing items have been downgraded entirely. Glass on chandeliers now look like canvas paper was slapped on it. I have enigma walls up and they are no longer shiney, all of them are dull. I have a gold saucer desk and it was fully downgraded. Looks nothing like the beautiful golden desk in the gold saucer. I posted the before from ffxiv housing site. The update and what it looks like in the gold saucer and the housing item of what we get now. Crayon on paper.

[Aurumis]

Not really for the characters, just for the textures and lightning, but the characters are now destroyed.

[Canadane]

It was. Thanks to the upgrade we're almost back to 1.0 level of fidelity.
One day...

[KadenLag]

Desperately needed and honestly I wish they would go further with it, its listed as a major graphic update but outside of armour and some fabrics (and only really close) I would consider it minor graphic update.
The game looks wildly dated, this is due to supporting older consoles for so long. but objectively I cant see anyone being able to justify it looking lovely, you can only interject a personal feeling but logically not worth much when you look at the textures vs industry standards.

[Hallarem]

Yes, it was needed. Next they should work on more character customization, making the world even more open, opening up the houses in the world and finally giving their existing characters the basic human right of wearing a hat. (Viera - Hroth)

[Avidria]

Honestly yeah and i hope they do keep updating parts of it because some textures are still extremely crunchy and it's even more obvious next to the shiny new stuff