someone complain that graphics is downgrade... so....

[SydeBeheln]

Gameplay didnt keep all these players going through launch till now :P. I'm pretty sure the graphics and being fans of SE did that lol.

But I agree good gameplay is extremely important to the longevity of the game in an entire timeline scene. However since FF isnt going for a stylized look its really important they dont mess up their fantasy realism.

Which is exactly why they are overhauling the game and in tern--> the graphics, because they NEED more players.

Unfortunately(especially at this point), not everyone is fans of SE and players aren't going to pay for a game that only looks good =/.

[Rokien]

I'll say what I said in my other thread a while ago

Ok, talked it over with my friends, the problem with these graphics are, they are less grainy the faces are as SMOOTH as they can be, no pores or whatever. also the colors are, more vibrant? which isn't a bad thing, though, the world isn't as vibrant in colors... soo that creats a blah mesh of different styles.

[Yellow]

1. Alpha
2. I don't know about you guys, but my screenshots of 1.0 make FFXIV look worse in quality than it does in game.
3. I wonder what 1.0 would look like with the different lighting they're using. At the moment the game looks dark and cold, rather than bright and warm.

4. What makes you think nothing will be changed? Do you not think they'll improve the graphics if their player base doesn't like it?

I'm sure everything will be fine.

Besides.. it looks better than the rest of the MMORPGs out right now. Have you seen GW2 grass?

[SydeBeheln]

I do not think they will improve the graphics if the community disagrees. lol

The game is apparently going to scale pretty high though, so I would wait to see what it is like on max settings before making too many assumptions about the game looking bad. Even now, pre-beta, it looks great.

[Aion]

I do not think they will improve the graphics if the community disagrees. lol

The game is apparently going to scale pretty high though, so I would wait to see what it is like on max settings before making too many assumptions about the game looking bad. Even now, pre-beta, it looks great.

even just with this one I already satisfied

[Anonymoose]

It may very well just be the lighting or an incomplete rendering, but I'm gonna have to throw my hat in the "It's looked better" ring.

You can say, "You'll be able to make it look better with a good PC!"
I say, "Why would they not do that for the trailer, where you really need to sell the quality?"

You cay say, "It's the alpha, it'll be so much different at launch!"
I say, "I was a BETA kid for 1.0 and I don't ever want to hear, 'That'll be fixed at launch' from a player instead of a DEV ever again. Ever. Seriously. (Ever)."

You can say, "You should expect it to look worse so more people can run it."
I say, "That directly conflicts with the first one, and why the hell should I expect a downgrade? Technology has advanced by two years in this time, as well. Surely we'd at least break even, no?"

The fact is just that the game has looked better. In the new TGS trailer, the whole area around 30~ seconds looks like a drastic change. I don't care about "cartoony" style, though please dear Twelve let's not go cartoony... I don't care about the grass, though dear god let's at least be able to render acceptable terrain.

Still... what's up? Incomplete render engine? Bad lighting? New style? Downgraded on purpose? Just tell us the truth, we can handle it. Unless that truth is that now, or someday in the future, you plan to say the PS3 is holding you back, because I would quit SE faster than I quit Nintendo if no one learned from the PS2 FFXI catastrophe.

[Neptune]

"OMG THE GRASS!!!!!!!!!!111111111111111" Idk people complain about everything because they're dumb. The graphics look great, and gameplay>graphics anyway

Tabula Rasa is an interesting name for yourself. Since no one ever complained about grass, I think you and everyone else that makes statements like that must indeed have an empty brain, ready for the slightest idiocy to be imprinted upon it. I got something for your brain: education. Try it out.

[Ingolf]

The PS3 graphics are poor (But that's the cost of playing on an inferior piece of hardware), but the PC graphics seem pretty good. The Aesthetics are good too, which is more important generally.

[indira]

i cant see how anyone can honestly say its downgraded the shadows & lighting look hell of alot better. characters textures look alittle cleaner, the world looks organic now.

i dont understand some people at all

[Jaimie]

I'm confused. What are you saying, that 2.0 graphics are being downgraded ? Why ?

I don't have any PC related performance issues, and my CPU is a Q8200, and video card is a 550ti.