Dawntrail character graphics update - opinions, requests and discussion megathread

[Aria_Nocturna]

One of the Japanese forum moderators seems to have it out for me, so I'll leave my last post here instead.

On occasion, complaints over at the Japanese thread gain a huge amount of support (likes) within hours. These catch the attention of moderators, and then get censored with a generic "not contributing to the forums" excuse. I had hoped to leave one last post there before my subscription expired, but it got censored in this exact way. Tried to ask what was wrong with it, but even that got censored too.

Screenshots if interested:
https://imgur.com/a/ffxiv-graphics-update-Z6PuEhb

This game is too expensive for me, especially in Canada where my entry sub costs me 18$ a month. I was planning to vote with my wallet instead of paying for something I’m not enjoying anymore. But now I have to decide if I should keep forking over that money to keep hold of my house, waiting without any idea if more character adjustments are even being considered. I know I probably wont ever win the lotto again on my homeworld.

I too was conflicted about the house hostage thing, but my decision was to just let my subscription lapse anyway. If in 40-ish days, I still feel attached to my house (or an announcement is finally made about the botched character models), I could always visit just to reset the auto-demolition timer.

But what if I forget? Well, that would only mean I had already moved on. Also yes, the exchange rate here from Canada sucks.

I'm still upset over my character and decided "Well, I can just not look at her anymore, there's more to the game I guess"

Don't worry, lots of people on the Japanese thread feel the same. One comment in particular really resonated with me: "If I only look at his back, I can imagine he's still the character I knew".

As I said in my post (that got censored), I don't care whether they revert the character models for now, or give us an old/new setting, or truly reproduce our old faces with the new graphics. I just want my character back.

All in all, they probably think that little aggravating footnote is enough for now, and don't want to upset other players who are unbothered by the update by giving it a full announcement. Reading comprehension in FFXIV can be...wanting, and a lot of people tend to think "adjusting some shapes so they look more in-line with how the option appeared before" = "a call to downgrade the graphics".

Fully agree with the reading comprehension thing lol. Aside from hardware concerns, I highly doubt anyone is actually against the update as a whole.

I can't seem to find the footnote anywhere though, so would you mind telling me where it is? Sorry in advance if I don't reply afterward, as my subscription will likely have expired by then.

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Anyways, best of luck to those of you who are sticking around.
May you one day regain your beautiful, non-glitchy characters.

[Rueby]

Don't worry, lots of people on the Japanese thread feel the same. One comment in particular really resonated with me: "If I only look at his back, I can imagine he's still the character I knew".

As I said in my post (that got censored), I don't care whether they revert the character models for now, or give us an old/new setting, or truly reproduce our old faces with the new graphics. I just want my character back.

I don't know why I teared up reading that. I feel it too, I can just pretend that the character I loved died in EW or something along with everyone I loved.

I'm sick of getting flashbanged, it only happens in THIS game. Someone on design is like 'make it as white as possible and make it flash'! Waw so cool can't see anything. My friend joked with me about how I might need to wear sunglasses and I'm not even sure that'll help.

It's disgusting that they're censoring people over there....I thought I could perhaps use a translator to post there about eyestrain/mount tilt but I'm losing hope. I don't think visual clarity or eyestrain free is like...a priority.