Weather effects and our characters

[Gilraen]

I'd rather... what we have now. Why add anything relating to blood and gore? There are plenty of games where blood and gore are part of the theme, like Bethesda's games. But that's games made from a Western perspective. We rarely see Japanese games with blood and gore, Bloodborne being the first 'real' foray into the concept. And even then it's not really dedicated to it. Sure, there's blood, but as for gore there's barely any. Enemies don't explode in showers of organs, they just slump over like rag dolls. And other players flake away like burning paper mache'. I'm fine without blood, if I wanted to play a Western MMO with all that entails I'd be playing that instead of XIV.

PS3 actually doesn't have wet water effects last I checked.

Last I remember it did, and I'd been playing on the PS3 till May.

[Zojha]

I'd rather... what we have now. Why add anything relating to blood and gore?

It's solely for immersion, really. If it's windy, you expect your loose parts to move. If you get wet, you expect to be all shiny and dripping. If it's cold, you expect the ground to be potentially slippery. And if you slay a living being in close combat, you should expect to be all red afterwards.

You can keep it out of course, no harm in that. Especially physics can be very hard on the system and slipping can be "very" annoying. But it adds to have it.