I actually like the majority of the graphical changes, however I think all the anger that can be seen on the forum proves a point I had with friends about the graphics update. It wasn't needed.

FF14 was not an ugly game, it just needed some HD texture updates, and while I like the lighting changes I just wonder how much of the dev time was wasted on something that doesn't really improve the game when all that time developing a new lighting engine could have been spent on better mechanics for play or more importantly imo fixing the garbage movement in the game so you character actually collides with terrain instead of sliding along the ground plane, that's probably the biggest barrier to entry for alot of new players.