AoC has graphics on par with FFXIV. Most definitely AoC's graphics use more graphics resources, considering FFXIV doesn't even have the capability of using shader model 4 or any of the DirectX 10 graphic features which AoC currently uses. And I don't see AoC full of landscapes that look like they've been freshly mowed like FFXIV, everywhere you go in AoC (outside of Khemi and it's desert region) there is dense ground vegetation with physics which requires a hell of a lot more processing power than the landscapes of FFXIV should ever legitimately require. And we won't even start with the highly realistic DX10 powered water of AoC vs. that of FFXIV, If it wasn't for poor engine optimization on the part of SE's devs, FFXIV in its current state would require much less hardware on its fullest settings than AoC does on its lowest. No copy-and-paste terrain to be seen in AoC, either. Funny, that.

And what argument are you going to use when both Guild Wars 2 and Tera come out and their graphics blow FFXIV's out of the water with no copy-and-paste terrain? I haven't personally seen Guild Wars 2 graphics outside of screens and vids, but I have seen Tera in action and it stomps FFXIV graphically.

Kinda like when SE said they couldn't remake FFVII as a full 3d game because it would be impossible to have HD towns for such a large scale rpg ( this was stated while they were giving their reasoning for not having towns in FFXIII), all the while forgetting that Hironobu Sakaguchi had already done it with Lost Odyssey and other rpgs were already out as well that had HD towns and other features common to modern JRPGs.

SE has a tendency lately to make themselves look like bumbling fools when they try to come up with excuses for stuff. And people like yourself help them along by trying to use their same lame excuses in defense of them.

So let's cut the ********* really, it's getting old.