Quote Originally Posted by Iscah View Post
Because right now my characters only exist in those "ugly textures", and they're nowhere near ugly enough for me to care.

Even if you could only play the parts of the game that exist right now, it would be preferable to losing it forever, and no different to if FFXIV was a series of individually released games.
Well regardless how you feel. FFXIV is a MMO. It needs newer players to survive and if newer players see this game now. They won't try it because they think it looks outdated/bad graphics. (Heck people already say the game is ugly and grey and washed out looking). Yoshi-p himself said the main reason for graphics update was for younger/new players.

But either way...as I said..it's possible but nobody will do it. More so because SE changed a lot on the back end that I can't explain for obvious reasons but I will say if you ever manage to import the old armour textures, expect to see solid black and green color textures.
SE actually updated the graphics correctly, right down to how textures and color materials are handled and also removed things that old models used.
Basically what I'm saying is...it'll be a lot of work for basically no gain.