Final Fantasy 14: Endwalker was once home to some ugly low-resolution grapes, but no longer.
You see in Labyrinthos, one of the expansion’s new zones, some hilariously hideous grapes proudly hung in gardens. They were ugly-cute the same way pugs are, with so few polygons that every PS1 game was left green with envy.
Then when patch 6.01 came out Tuesday, these blocky purple friends were no more. Square Enix chose to update the grapes model to something a little more round. A greater tragedy there has never been in Final Fantasy 14, not even the rampant server congestion issues.
Gaze upon these might works below before their creators deemed them unfit for existence. Remember that they once lived.
Gone too soon. from ffxiv
Guess all that Final Fantasy 14 wine had to come from somewhere. Not sure the sacrifice was worth it, though, especially when the updated model is barely a technical improvement.
The community, naturally, is in tatters over the grapes patch. Those purple juices lost, like tears in the rain. Frail hearts barely made it by that day, undoubtedly one of Hydaelyn’s greatest tests. Below, you’ll find a collection of some of the most, well, meme-worthy reactions to the grape patch.