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

[Cyrtip]

Your character does not look bad.

My character, and the ones I see in cutscenes, look so not bad I do not want to play the game. The soul is different, on account of every single discernible facial feature being remodeled alongside animating differently.

At least the graphics update makes my character look as disinterested in the 7.0 MSQ as I currently feel (This screenshot is taken from the dialogue option freeze frame in "Shadowbringers" cutscene #2, where emotions are supposed to be high, not empty, and is used because 7.0 footage without the graphics replacement does not exist).

[sindriiisgaming]

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.

Then that's the price they pay. They're not some small indie company. They have enough money to hire Australian comedians they can pay to reverse these character changes. They should have left well enough alone.

[xbahax92]

No, please don't. I like the update. It was a good investment, even if there are some minor issues. It's nothing that cannot be adressed in the next patches.
Good luck to those, who find their character altered to much. I hope you will get used to it in time OR SE finally adds more custimazition in the CC. Would of been the perfect opportunity, heh?

[sindriiisgaming]

My 2 cents: offering an "old option" is tantamount to throwing in the towel and "splitting the player base". I think it would be far better if they just fixed the regressions instead

I think ideally yes this is what we all want. But after getting it wrong THREE times now. I think we can agree our faith has been spent. So until they can get it universally right. It should be an optional opt out thing.

[PrincessLily]

You guys are the problem

I Agree 100%

[Kewitt]

You will all forget about it in a week and the look will feel normal.

I don't spend much time looking at my face.
I look at other people.

[CStrife912]

Don’t put an option to switch simple as… people have grown accustomed to dated 10 year old visuals that were even dated when it came out… and having even a modicum of advancement is better then none so I would gladly take some partially off characters (which can still be tweaked in patches) then being back where we were.

[boopadoop]

i'm just here to laugh at "the difference is jarring" and "art style direction" when this is nothing compared to WoW's graphic update. SE actually tried to keep them looking the same and you get a free fantasia + reworked how the fantasia works.

genuinely can't tell if i'm supposed to take y'all seriously.

eye strain/headaches is a completely different matter and might be related to motion blur or smn. see what other ppl say abt settings, idk. being displeased with how things look =/= genuine discomfort and shouldn't be in the same thread imo. there IS a thread for eye strain, but i think our forums are p!ss at being noticed, so i'd watch it for solutions and send actual in-game feedback about eye/head discomfort instead of mMMMMM sorry, i can't, this just comes off as whining to troll our forums as per usual.

[Loggos]

Not only is it a spit in the face to the countless hours spent on every detail

This is a point I disagree with regardless of the "side" of this discussion tbh.

In the end, SE sells us a product. If they pour lots of time into something and the result doesn't make the customers happy (I'm talking in general here) then the customers should not feel obliged to like it because of the effort they put in.
In such a case the company would have made the wrong call with regard to their resource management/planning and allocation. They'd have made a business decision but the risk wouldn't have paid off.
I do think it's important to keep in mind that SE is not a small gaming studio. They are one of the biggest players and FF14 is their most lucrative game.

The people who like the update don't just like it because of the time spent, I assume, but because of the result (if SE had achieved the same result faster/smarter happy players would like it the same amount).

This is why, on the flipside, people who are unhappy should be allowed to voice their opinion based on their assessment of the quality of the result. SE meaning well doesn't make our characters look better to us.

Of course then SE has to weigh the feedback of different groups against each other and decide what to do.

But no matter the outcome, or who is in the majority/minority, I just think either side should be able to give feedback based on what we received and what we end up paying money for.

[markjail]

After 4 wonderful years of play, with the latest update the pc occasionally gets sent into freeze by the game leaving me with a black screen and I have to manually reboot the computer.
My 3080 does not exceed 80% usage and temperatures are always well below critical values. Needless to add that all other games do not create any problems and even here, before the update, everything was perfect.

It would be nice to be able to give a judgment on the expansion, after so much anticipation and hype...
However, from what little I have seen, it looks so much like a more of the same with slightly improved graphics