Yay, We're Pretty Again!

[Kiote]

OMG Praise the lord we have Skin tone again! The first time they showed footage of ARR, despite knowing it was unfinished, I was so worried we would be getting a Dramticly Different Character Art Style.

Alpha:


Beta:


So happy to see things have gotten back to normal and that we didn't have to sacrifice High Quality Character Models for performance enhancements.

[Seirra_Lanzce]

well duh.. is was alpha footage?? lol

[ZakarnRosewood]

It was just people freaking out over something that was still IN DEVELOPMENT!

[Elexia]

It was just people freaking out over something that was still IN DEVELOPMENT!

People were freaking out because it was stated by SE they've toned graphics down in order to make playability better, which means when people were freaking out they were rightfully so because to those who ran 1.0 past SNES mode immediately seen a difference even from the 1.0 alpha graphical style.

[Pseudopsia]

Guess my eyes aren't that great. I really can't see the difference.

[fusional]

i expect to see many, many more of these "oops sorry we kinda extremely overreacted" threads by release day

[Ramen]

:O strong pretty women in coming!

[Starlord]

i expect to see many, many more of these "oops sorry we kinda extremely overreacted" threads by release day

Has there ever been a thread stating someone was wrong? I doubt they'll be threads about it.. just you'll see less of a fuss in the forums.

[Req]

i expect to see many, many more of these "oops sorry we kinda extremely overreacted" threads by release day

There will be no apologies, they will just find something else to nitpick because hate is the essence of the ffxiv forums.

[Raven_Reborn]

Besides the lighting... The skin looks the same. The real test will be seeing how characters look in full lighting... Then again we've seen that recently and it looks great.