Please just give us a non-graphics update option for DT

[Anneliese_Lev]

I also would want to revert to Endwalker graphics. My character lost personality by turning her into a teenager girl. She used to look like serious business, and her happier emotes looked good too.

I even liked the darker lighting, even if the new one has fans too. The new lighting also adds more problems because some lights seem to traverse through the head of my character, and make the lips and other parts look much brighter while the rest of the head is in darkness. Also, diagonal lighting gives her the appearance of being harelip (everything I comment in this paragraph isn't show in the image)

(I cannot point exactly what's the problem, but I think it has something to do with the eyes, lips and the general face textures)



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[cutestfox]

I would like nothing more than to go back to the old character design

If not buying Dawntrail didn't give me the character update, I wouldn't buy it
If I could pay to go back, I would pay for it

There is no update, no content, nothing I want more than the chance to go back now

[Limecat]

All blurring effects are eye cancer, also need the option to disable glare put back in.

[Einnecy]

At least the option to revert certain things like character face models or lighting. Not everything needs to be rolled back.

If having a, say, split download for the graphics (choosing between EW and DT graphics in the launcher) was not possible, something I would personally appreciate is if they added the old facial features alongside the new ones and made mayhap made some of the new features such as the glossy lips (and skin) optional instead. I wouldn't mind compromising on having a lower-poly face just as long as the character I am playing even remotely looks like my character again.

Nope, I read that just fine. I'd rather they divert their resources to things I find more worthwhile

I too would rather they did not divert so much time and resources on a graphical update that I personally find wholly unnecessary and had instead focused on more more interesting additions and things that actually needed to be tweaked and fixed.

Obviously it's great that Square Enix finally overhauled models, but the fact that they needed to do this shows the kind of state the company is in. This should have been done years ago. Final Fantasy XIV has been sold to people as a sub-par product for too long and people got too used to it. Now all of this company's bad decisions are coming to light just as shareholders are backing out and begging for a change. Square Enix is in its worst crisis since FFXIV 1.0 and The Spirits Within before that.

The game is financially struggling by... being the most successful MMO on the market right now? If there was a problem I don't think the old graphics were it.

[RhaesDaenys]

Nope. I disagree.

[RhaesDaenys]

I'd personally love to use an option to revert the character graphics changes, even if no headgear, hair, head fashion accessories, or eyewear released after 6.58 appears visible on my character.
The reason the face replacements look so different (and were even made) is because the replacement heads are all morphs of the same mesh (to cut development costs and save time) as opposed to the 6.58 heads which were all unique.
If using the old characters with 0 support were an option (just like Hroth, Viera, and old hats ), I would get a character that does not look bad, and the developers would get an easier job. The old character models would also be a fraction of the size of the old graphics in totality.

Your character does not look bad.

[RhaesDaenys]

You're still creating 2 art pipelines. Any equipment you wear and any hairstyles and fashion accessories and facewear needs 2 versions, one low res garbage version and one updated version.

A feature like this will absolutely result in less new content, it's not going to happen and it shouldn't happen.

This x10000000000000000

[SturmChurro]

It isn't even about necessarily looking bad in a general sense, but to a lot of us, our characters do look worse or 'off' compared to how they were, some less so than others. Some things you can pinpoint as being the exact reason(s) why.

[IvyIndigo]

Everyone against this like its some big thing, a lot of games have classic/hd graphic options, those sayin eye strain ppl need to adjust settings, I have, I spent the first 5 hrs trying to fix it but nothing worked. We're asking for something that would let us play the game without pain or struggle, much like the colour blind option in accesibility settings. The changes to the faces are jarring and look somewhat of a downgrade, my WoL now looks like a tween not the adult she used to look like.

[aph]

Well but then that could still be the compromise the devs offer: old models but at the cost of new hairstyle updates.
If they want the new stuff then they'll have to toggle to the new model.
Then we'd at least have something. That would be more than we have now in that particular regard because at the moment it's nothing.

You worry about people complaining if they don't get future hair styles. I suppose you fear a "give them an inch and they'll take a mile" type of situation?

But this is an all-or-nothing perspective I personally disagree with. I think a compromise/the middle ground can be a viable option.

Right now even more people are unhappy because they don't have the old character models anymore. I think people, who'd be unhappy about old models not getting new stuff, would always inherently be a subset of that group. It will most likely not be 100%.

So regaining access to old models, even if there's no new stuff for them, would probably already decrease the number of unhappy people.

The other alternative could be a thorough character creator overhaul with more options, esp. since the CC is terribly outdated for a modern day MMO, as well. I think this is an area which ressources need to be allocated to anyway. Imo 8.0 is really (too) late for that endeavor. That would be around 2027 if I'm not mistaken.

THIS. all I want is access to the old models 100%. i don't care if I have to play the game with the updated graphics, as long as I can have my boy back they can do whatever tf they want.