Why is this game so vomit-inducing ugly compared to FF XIV...

Cause look at this screenshot of FFXIV. It looks generic as fuck.

It's not even a screenshot of FFXIV. It's of Monster Hunter World. But you couldn't tell cause they all look the same.

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No, YOU LEAVE to Yea Forums or whatever shithole you and your kind came from.

The sword being made of a jawbone gives it away as monster hunter immediately.

>Armor is fucking horrendous, too.
No armor is as bad as WoW.

I prefer wow's colorful world over the bland graphics of xiv desu

>IT SUPPOSED TO LOOK BAD, IT'S A STYLE

Holy shit why are classicfags so delusional

>the mmo to finally kill wow is wow

neat

You mean the generic looking sword that looks like a sword in any jrpg game?

I could tell pretty easily.

Ironic

>green, purple, and orange
>"colorful"

get your eyes checked faggot

That screenshot isn't even from classic, it's a promotional shot of the latest expansion pack from blizzard's website.

atleast in XIV they are actual armors not color tape that strap on your body with giant shoulderpads

ok

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lmao good one

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better than brown/yellow

>Even fucking Runescape is more visually aesthetic than this.
Which is funny cause the older shittier-graphic version of runescape is more popular.

>sword made from jawbone in a jrpg
Name one.

Flora looks different, sky looks different, that isn't any idle animation that the taller racers have, water physics look different... Anyone who has played the two, or even FFXIV in this case, can tell its not FFXIV.

why do you regurgitate "generic". its a bloody sword does it have to look like an umbrella with spinning dildos on top to appease your amusement and not being labeled as generic?

They just don't give a shit.

They could have developed a new client with new graphics, like Eve Online

As someone who's played wow for 15 years, but never played a jrpg outside of dark souls, I don't see a difference.

If you don't think that looks better than WoW's painted-directly-on-the-model armor, you need your eyes checked.

>dark souls
>jrpg
Okay, everyone can stop responding to this guy now.

Okay, how does that contradict my post?

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damn he wasnt kidding, is xi still active?

>classic killing retail
will never happen
classic will die with the next retail expansion,

There's literally nobody left playing in retail lol

It's a mixed bag. Some of the early areas are really bland, but they got better with the expansions. Especially after the ditched PS2 support and the animations were able to improve quite a bit.

Yes it is!

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you're deluded

They seriously need to use N'zoth to launch WoW2 with a new engine. Have BfA end with N'zoth tearing Azeroth's surface asunder and reviving the Black Empire. WoW2 can bring you old character forward, restarting at level 1, and the first few zones are the Shadowlands because we dead or something. New Characters start in another area for the first 10 levels, then old and new sync up at level 10 zones.

WoW was designed to run on toasters, 15 years ago. Considering that, it looked great when it came out. It's low poly kino, but a lot of the style has aged badly.

That actually sounds neat and like a good idea, but it will never happen because that would A) require effort and B) it would increase the system specs, meaning its a waste, to them, as they lose subs because people can't run the new game.

How many more subs could they lose, they are at like 15 people till Tuesday.

>posting soulless nuwow
ok

see pic
the hype will die down after a few weeks or month, the game is extremely outdated, most retail players will go back to retail and a lot of classic players will try retail too since its the same sub
when the next expansion hits, people will have already seen all the things classic has to offer, which is not much because most of the content is the leveling and theres nothing to do at endgame other than farm the same easy dungeons/raids and wpvp

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I want to see some time travel fuckery in classic.

Sort of like what they did with FFXIV when they fucked it up.

How do you even bear with WoW's saturation on top of saturation? It feels so hard on the eyes, especially when the even more saturated effects make it worse to deal with and immerse into.

Only a literal retard will confuse this screenshot with FFXIV or any other JRPG. TO make matters even worse your standing next to that fucking HP Flower

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The goal of user was specifically to gather attention and (You)'s. As you have given him exactly what he wants, you can expect to see more of this bait in the future.

Perhaps you will learn to simply not respond to Posts like that in the future. And if you absolutely must reply because your jimmies have been rustled, at least sage.

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The hype will increase and suck people in like it used to.
Expecting millions of subs is not unrealistic.

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wow classic = soul, ffwhatever = soulless

osrs will be dead in a year! - idiots circa 2013

When you have 8 total games and the artstyle is only slightly revamped every 2-3 games, you run into this problem where old and busted 2005 models and textures are operating right alongside slightly updated Cataclysm models and textures and those are operating right alongside updated textures from WoD and those are going against updated models and textures from BFA.
You also run into this problem where some things use modern, more elaborate and fluid animations while other things still use stiff 2005 animations as well.

Everything ends up clashing and feeling like a disjointed mess. Like some group of modders went into an old game to remaster it but got bored halfway through and just stopped.

no one cares about runescape
oldschool and current runescape are both shit games

So you're telling me that with the billions of dollars in revenue they make from subscription fees every year, blizzard can't afford to keep the game updated?

>The hype will increase and suck people in like it used to
its not 2004 anymore

>Expecting millions of subs is not unrealistic.

It totally fucking is at this point

Oh no, they can totally afford to keep it updated.
They just choose not to.
This is the same company that refuses to update old armor models and textures from vanilla WoW because "That's all in the past" despite a lot of them still being popular because they actually show some skin, all to save a few dollars.

Both retail WoW and FFXIV are garbage "MMOG's", they're glorified lobby games at best where the world becomes useless and trivial so fast, with random people you'll never see or interact with again, they're essentially soulless.

Both these games have helped kill and stagnate the genre from what it was. And will continue to do so until they die.

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Why waste money doing that when suckers will play the game regardless?

>Why is this game so vomit-inducing ugly compared to FF XIV?
It probably has something to do with the fact that it's running on a 17 year old engine for starters.

If any other MMO was good, don't you think people would be playing it? Nothing's stopping them, especially considering that literally every other MMO out there is f2p, so it's not like there's even a buy-in to worry about.

Because there was an artstyle shift that happened while WoW was still alive and that shift changed the way everything new getting added looked while still being in the same game on the same engine since 04.

No one would complain how WC2 looks different that WC3 because they're different games.

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WC2 is objectively better looking than WC3 though, and WoW uses the same shitty low poly art style from WC3.

I don't disagree with you but wc3 artstyle is iconic and incredibly popular with people. Thats part of why a lot of people dislike how wc3 reforged has modern WoW artstyle.

No other MMO's will be good, until WoW and FF die. Simply for the fact that developers have stopped trying to take a piece of the themepark pie that WoW and FF now control because why would somebody jump ship for a similar game, when they're already invested in a "better" version of it.

WoW killed MMO's back in 2004, as it casualised a lot of what made MMO's an investment and "for the nerds". It allowed them to strike at a larger audience and bring in the bank. More people started playing, more people got their friends to play, etc. It became a cult following because of this, but with every expansion they kept reaching for a larger audience. More developers kept trying to make "WoW with a spin" but failed to realise peoples attachment to the game as it was probably A LOT of peoples first MMO, so they were short sighted and fought a battle guaranteed to lose.

Until WoW gets put on maintenance or a developer comes through during a weak point of WoW and FF now(like FF did), this genre is fucked.

Don't play it then, friend

these mean absolutely nothing, even high pop servers are literal ghost towns on retail
t. plays on argent dawn where you'll only see a few people in stormwind and boralus and nowhere else

I play on archimonde and see a lot of people

ffxiv's grass looks worse than wow, thanks to the super charged PS3

>but with every expansion they kept reaching for a larger audience
hahaha no

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