My PC runs Crysis almost on full settings. Individual animated hi-res foliage swaying in the wind with draw distances as far as the eye can see. Smooth framerates.

XIV bad framerates the grass is a flat texture and the chunky trees pop into view within 100 meters also the foliage looks low res un-animated and really odd.

Something is definitely not right here.

I'm not sure it matters but I'd much rather have a lot worse graphics than this and see other players in the distance more. Usually people pop in and out of view way too close. In XI at least it was easier to follow a group because I could actually see them.

Seems like a case of bad servers combined with bad graphics draw-order prioritization.