Was This Graphical Update Necessary?

[Reinha]

-Characters rework - not so sure - probably not (need more time to polish for sure or postpone if necessary).
This may be subjective depending on which race(s) you plays. Some races benefited from this, such as Hyur, Pototoes and Miqotes, but the little visual upgrade we see is just not so big to justify that our faces just looks unrecognizable.

And most other races just look different wihtout any great visual upgrade. I would consider only a really big visual uplift to justify the risk of changing our old characters beyond recognition and piss many players. And I dont consider higher ress textures and a little more polygons in face as big graphic uplift In case of M and F Viera, these look even worse compared to original, on top of butchering our old faces.

I think devs are reworking and fixing races one by one, with Hyur and Miqote being complete or almost completed and the rest of races still need some more polishment... and not enough time to polish everything in a little time we left until 7.0

Agreed, and even in the pixelated Estinien picture posted earlier his face looked fine. It was only the environment and armor that needed fixing.

I don't believe they are reworking things as much as people think. The expansion is 2 months away. This is it, this is what we get. They are only going to fix the most offensive bugs that are clearly not intended. However, it's still important to show the devs all the changes we dislike so that they at least don't walk back on their remark that we'd get a free fantasia.

[Moqi]

It absolutely was. The terrain and clothes texture can be truly awful sometimes.

They just messed our characters (and they still can't give Viera and Hrothgar hats).

[WantlessYoYo]

Go to Elpis and go look a tree closely

Look. That. Tree.

[Arkdra]

Yes, it looks drastically better in the update.

Look, I don't want to take anything away from the people complaining right now because I get it. When I looked at my catgirl in the character creator I was like dang, this is different in a way I don't like. But I'll get used to it, or fantasia to something else if it really bothers me. Meanwhile, everything else in the game that isn't my characters face, (which doesn't look bad, it's small alterations that I will almost never notice when not explicitly looking for them) looks a lot better.

[keichirou]

Yes, it looks drastically better in the update.

Look, I don't want to take anything away from the people complaining right now because I get it. When I looked at my catgirl in the character creator I was like dang, this is different in a way I don't like. But I'll get used to it, or fantasia to something else if it really bothers me.

this is the type of mentality corporations and greedy companies love...conformism....customers just lowering their heads and accepting the new reality instead of actually showing some guts..

[Embran]

this is the type of mentality corporations and greedy companies love...conformism....customers just lowering their heads and accepting the new reality instead of actually showing some guts..

From their comment, it seems like they believe the graphics are a net positive and that they'd rather have the changes than not.

Feel free to voice your discontent, but personal attacks are super uncalled for and people aren't shills just because they disagree with you.

[keichirou]

From their comment, it seems like they believe the graphics are a net positive and that they'd rather have the changes than not.

Feel free to voice your discontent, but personal attacks are super uncalled for and people aren't shills just because they disagree with you.

both issues are tied , people who like the change, people who hate the change and people who adapt....the latter being the most important, the more people of that specific circle exist the more empowered companies feel they the their mindset in " ohhh customers will like it eventually " this is a paid service remember that could care less if people agree or disagree with that sentiment.

Unlike other stuff people actually should be mad about.

This ain't something you should be Chipping In, A Like Supreme.

read above , save some bytes , didnt know i had limitations on what i should say...sorry boss lol

[Somnolence]

From their comment, it seems like they believe the graphics are a net positive and that they'd rather have the changes than not.

It is because catgirls are not as affected. For the record, I think mine still looks good - because I made her so cute the upgrade was powerless to ruin her

[Arkdra]

this is the type of mentality corporations and greedy companies love...conformism....customers just lowering their heads and accepting the new reality instead of actually showing some guts..

Lol how do you say something like this with a straight face on a video game forum? My catgirls face getting puffier cheeks, weirdly larger eyes at slightly unwelcome angles, and losing her fangs doesn't even rate in like the top 1000 things I should maybe take a brave stand on with regards to a corporation. Get some perspective.

[Larirawiel]

this is the type of mentality corporations and greedy companies love...conformism....customers just lowering their heads and accepting the new reality instead of actually showing some guts..

I guess, they looked at the download counters of various character altering mods and then decided to improve the graphics. And streamers like Asmongold also said, that the FF14 visuals are very bad. The demand for improvement is there.




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