Quote Originally Posted by Anarnee View Post
I imagine that if I want to screw up my laptop monitor settings, something similar might help if I really want to watch a XIV stream, but it's really not worth it to have to mess up the settings for all of my other stuff just to want to see someone play this game.
This actually got me thinking... it's not a perfect solution because it's not available for people playing on consoles, and won't help with watching streams, but it will work with the game itself at least.

You can check out ReShade or Gshade (ReShade's fork created by FF14 community). The software is open-source, free of charge, and isn't against ToS (confirmed by SE's staff member very early on here on forum: link). People usually use it to take screenshots, but you can definitelly create simple gameplay-friendly shader presets there that won't affect game's overal performance at all. It also will work only within FF14 itself when you enable the preset, meaning you won't have to tinker with your laptop's general settings. I remember people used to make presets for P3S when it was released, because the bright white-red arena combined with a red boss was torture on the eyes.

Alternatively, you could check out Nvidia/AMD's post-processing features, they have their own built-in reshade-like tools these days. The only thing I don't remember about those is if they allow to save those settings and enable them at any time while playing.

Ideally, though, DevTeam should really expand on in-game own settings, since people are different and this is very much an accessibility issue. They do have color filters for some forms of color blindness, so adding contrast as a separate setting should be well within their ability. Gamma slider alone isn't quite enough anymore, plus console players should be able to adjust settings like these as well, not just those who can accsess ReShade.