Quote Originally Posted by Culfinrandir View Post
They do it already in Ishgard & Coerthas so it's something that is possible to do but it probably is a limitation of the current engine & PS3 matters. There's bound to be a way to use the graphics engine to toggle snow on & off without individually coding each separate entity. I imagine that it uses too much processing power to meet the current minimum specifications but we know that 4.0 raises those. Yay!
They can let us paint furniture and apply different textures... I REALLY doubt the true reason is engine limitations unless they hardcoded something ridiculous.