Quote Originally Posted by Soukyuu View Post
It's fine to have your own opinion, the problem here is that what you are mentioning as "better graphics" is actually "better engine" and "better aesthetics". Which 2.0 will (hopefully) get with ARR.

Graphics is about texture quality, details and effects you can have, while NPC display count, background drawing quality and graphics/camera lag is about how optimized the engine is. Aesthetics are something completely different and independent, namely how much attention to little details like physically correct, smooth animations, overall design of the world etc was given by the designers.
To be quite honest, I'm not even sure why everyone keeps bringing up aesthetics, it was nowhere in the discussion until someone brought it up, do you even know why the discussion was brought up? It was said that FFXIV is the end all be all in the "graphics" department. Also correct me if I'm wrong since I'm not a game designer, but im pretty sure it's a "graphics" unit that processes all these things, not an aesthetics unit. Either way pointless discussion that has gone on long enough, which I'm not going to continue to talk about because it seems everyone seems to know better, you know, being the internet and all.

2.0 looks amazing without a doubt, looking forward to it.