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Check Out The Final Fantasy XIV Graphics Upgrade Coming With Dawntrail: Can you Spot the Difference?

Square Enix provided new information and images of the upcoming first graphical update coming with the Final Fantasy XIV expansion "Dawntrail " during a dedicated panel which TechRaptor attended in person.

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jjb1981204d ago

🤣🤣🤣 I love FFXIV, but that upgrade looks like when a PS2 game gets a remaster on PS3.

antikbaka204d ago

how to show that you never played PS2 without saying you never played PS2

FinalFantasyFanatic204d ago

You are being disingenuous, anyway, the graphics are simple so that the game can run on more potato PCs, not many MMOs have state of the art graphics because they want as many subscribers as possible. It's a no-brainer.

jjb1981204d ago

Ok, fanboy. I already know that. The graphical upgrade is pathetic and should offer more options for those with higher-end PCs. This game is more than 10 years old. it's time for an actual update especially if they're charging a subscription fee. The creatures literally pop-in from a short distance and when they do, the animations run at like 20fps.

FinalFantasyFanatic203d ago (Edited 203d ago )

@jjb1981,

Fanboy? You wish, I haven't cared about the franchise that much since FFX, I made this account many years ago, your straw man holds no weight here. As for A Realm Reborn, I don't remember any major performance issues when I played the Starter's edition, you might like hyperbole too much. Good luck finding your MMO with Crysis/Cyberpunk-tier graphics, they're no going to waste development time and money on graphics when they can spend it on content and keep people engaged and subscribed. ARR still looks pretty good for an MMO, not everything needs to be hyper realistic and ray-traced.

Abriael203d ago

You really have distorted memories of what both PS2 and PS3 games looked like.

You also don't know a thing of how graphics work in relation to MMORPGs.

jjb1981203d ago

I had FFXIV for PS3. Even the PS4 version was hardly an upgrade. Don't let nostalgia let you catch feelings.

Abriael203d ago (Edited 203d ago )

FFXIV for PS3 doesn't look in any shape or form what FFXIV looks like now on any hardware.It was a pixelated mess.

And it certainly doesn't look in any shape or form what it looks after the upgrade.

I'm not catching any feelings. You've caught a sight or memory issue. You can pick which.

jjb1981200d ago

You're just in denial and actually believe this is a real visual upgrade. I guess it's better than nothing.

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Square Enix Releases Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail Benchmark Software

Final Fantasy XIV fans can now properly benchmark their PCs and check out some of what's coming to their game this summer.

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Final Fantasy XIV Online: A Realm Reborn Review | TheXboxHub

Richard writes: Final Fantasy XIV Online on Xbox is built for newcomers.

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Xbox Profanity Filter Is Ruining the FFXIV Chat

The Xbox profanity filter is currently ruining the readability of the FFXIV chat on Xbox Series X/S due to censored words.

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Snookies1242d ago

Lol, damn... At this point, they were better off keeping FF XIV away from Xbox. It has been nothing but obstacle, after obstacle.

gold_drake42d ago

wanted to say the exact same thjng.

VenomUK42d ago (Edited 42d ago )

What happens if you say things that used to get you banned on Twitter e.g. 'a man can't be a woman'?

RedDevils41d ago

*insert gift*
"Boys have a penis. Girls have a vagina."

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DivineHand12542d ago

I'm not convinced this is the profanity filter. It doesn't make sense to censor words like class, harvest and dance. It seems to be a bug.

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TheGamingHounds41d ago

Well, FF14 itself has some pretty awful chat censoring so Xbox being in the same boat isn't too farfetched

Eidolon41d ago

it censored the S T D in "harvest dance" and I bet the A S S in class. I know this because of Runescape

Aphrodia42d ago

Yeah these new fangled filters are going a bit too far. I have a game that filters "wtf". It's a censor for a self-censoring phrase. But I think overall it's how it should be. If you don't want certain language being used in your game by your player base, then it's up to you to filter/ censor the language you don't want. I can respect that. What I can't respect is when you say things that are not really offensive then you get ostracized for it.

shinoff218342d ago

What happened to just reporting people

NOMATICENIGMA42d ago

This is completely false, I tested this on my son's child account and mine, this is not Microsoft censoring they will censor swears but not the combination of letters I can prove this with a screenshot where I use all mentioned words in the article but do not know how to upload a picture.

NOMATICENIGMA41d ago

You can all continue your bashing, I was wrong someone explained to me this is a new policy, that's why it only happens for me in this brand new release. I'll try latter on ps to confirm but their response seemed informed wich leaves me rather worried for future censorship on my xbox.

CrimsonWing6942d ago

Geezus, Xbox, you get gifted gold and still f*ck things up.

NOMATICENIGMA42d ago

It's not xbox, go ahead start a chat with the youngest person on your friends list then say raid mass class sass said .... they do not censor any of these I even got away with R.Aids. sqaure on the other hand does.

CrimsonWing6941d ago

Does this affect PC and PS4/PS5 users, too? Or is it only happening on Xbox?

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