Poor Designed Weapon's.

[Delsus]

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?

[Betelgeuzah]

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.

Okay? Does this mean there is not even a slight possibility that they could perhaps go a little overboard in their crusade, and as such need the community to point out that they are taking things too far?

Expecting perfection right from the beginning is the flaw of this community. We do not criticize their inventions because we want them to fail, we criticize them because we want the game to become as good as it can be. Not as good as they can get it the first try around.

"The aggro icon is a bit too large." "The monster sizes are a bit too large." This is a continuation of that, and to tell you the truth, even though some people didn't "mind" the rather bulky aggro icon I find it much more appealing now that it has been slightly modified.