Quote Originally Posted by Betelgeuzah View Post
Not Eorzean, the art direction of FFXIV. Every item has to be kept within certain artistic boundaries. Otherwise the direction becomes inconsistent and detached. No game wants that to happen, and no, it is not common for companies to change their art direction in the same game. Between different games, sure. All you will have is a bunch of artistic nonsense where nothing fits anywhere.
The game is undergoing a complete overhaul right now, the community said there was not enough colour in the game, and everything was really bland, and this is the start of the changes to that.

Also you say the weapons are not eorzean, but is ifrit directly from eorzea nope, he is summoned which could be why the weapons look differant, there are pages and pages of possible lore they could put into why all weapons dont look the same, or in FFXI are abyssea weapons bad designing because the dont look like there from Vana'diel?