The Graphics update was unnecessary

[Saraide]

Sorry, complete disagree.













I understand that people are attached to their characters.
I don't understand wanting to keep PS3 grade models, textures, lighting and physics for the sake of arbitrary personal standards.

Going from 1.0 to 2.0 the game suffered actual downgrades to the graphics, but everyone was fine in the end.

I hope improvements can be made based on feedback, but overall, this is gonna hugely benefit the game in the long run.

Dear god the pixel exarch.

[Ath192]

Are people actually trying to argue that this looks good?

Ewwwwwwwwww. Yeah it couldn't come soon enough. Honestly without it I don't know how I could justify wasting my eyeballs on this another 10 years. I don't have another pair.

[Avoidy]

I think the base aesthetic this game had going for it was fine and didn't need to change. Like, if you look at the lips for example, it's obvious there are some elements that they just redid for some reason. I don't think that was necessary. The lighting changes though, yes please. This game's lighting has always been notoriously awful.
Here's hoping they hear the feedback and make necessary changes, but whatever. One thing I would like to see in DT is the ability to tie hairstyles to glamour plates. Like... more features for the existing aesthetic would've been better than randomly changing people's lips and noses and stuff imo.

[Taliriah]

It's not subjective, my statement was for MMO's as a whole and not ff14.

Its your subjective view about MMOs as a whole.

The reason being is, you already know the FF14 story was good.

I also heard about it before i started playing. I wouldn’t have bothered otherwise, because i knew there was otherwise nothing else for me in the game.

The first thing a consumer is going to notice is the art style and theme,

Dated graphics are also noticed quickly. On one of the game i worked on, "it looks ugly" drowned out any and every conversation about it when it was new. It got better when we released a graphics update, but you still find people today who are nostalgic of the old graphics. There are always die hard fans who zealously like what everyone else hated. Nostalgia is also one hell of a drug.

they chose to spend that budget on dev hours for a graphic update instead of using the budget for technical enhancements that would improve gameplay.

Well we dont really know that yet, do we? We havent seen any DT gameplay yet.

[Rudje]

I think the base aesthetic this game had going for it was fine and didn't need to change. Like, if you look at the lips for example, it's obvious there are some elements that they just redid for some reason. I don't think that was necessary. The lighting changes though, yes please. This game's lighting has always been notoriously awful.
Here's hoping they hear the feedback and make necessary changes, but whatever. One thing I would like to see in DT is the ability to tie hairstyles to glamour plates. Like... more features for the existing aesthetic would've been better than randomly changing people's lips and noses and stuff imo.

Yeah, there's a really obvious shift in core art style that is really unwelcome in several places. I'm not going to go into too much detail until we see the new benchmark, but scanning the mouth comparisons in the Viera thread makes that much obvious. That's not just lighting, that's a whole new redrawn texture that made no effort to preserve the character of the old face.

[Chasingstars]

Are people actually trying to argue that this looks good?

"This is the ideal male body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like."

[CidHeiral]

The image you posted clearly looks bad, but I think the more important question is "how does it look after the update?", because if the answer is "different, but still bad", then I can understand people questioning whether the update was worth it or not.

I think the only way to go from there is up, my friend. lol

[Zarkovitch]

we finally have fsr and dlss 2.0 what do you mean it's unnecessary? It was needed.

[Communion]

From what I've seen, this graphics update will absolutely ruin the game. It's pretty much horrifying.

[Dubont]

Game is 14 years old. It was due for a graphics update to keep up. Even Runescape had a graphics update years ago....RUNESCAPE