Quote Originally Posted by Sated View Post
FFXIV's palette relies heavily on the weather. I fish a lot so the zones I'm in are usually affected by some gloomy weather and it dulls everything (still cool, just bleak) but on a Clear or Fair Skies day any zone looks amazing and vibrant and colorful. It's really beautiful and it works.

I don't think WoW's colors work here, those edits are extremely jarring to me. It's neat for a stylized screenshot but I could never play like that, I'd have to adjust my monitor.

I have to wonder how much of this thread's perception is affected by partial/colorblindness too because I imagine that would heavily affect opinions on what looks best.
In the JP fanfest they showed background artist work and in FF14 they don't make objects have any light it is entirely based no the weather from what I recall ( may be wrong) which is why a lot of the time the environments look so horrible and drab is because they lack the weather light to make them pop.