Thoughts on new Pandaemonium gear

[AirisRay]

Dear Naoki Yoshida!

First of all, I want to thank you for this wonderful game, which brings me a lot of joy and supports me in difficult times. I have been playing various mmo for a very long time, since 2005. My longest time of playing was in wow and gw2, I spending hours there.

Why am I writing this. I want to write about my negative experience as a person who spends many hours in mmo. In particular, I want to write about effects. Effects of armor. This does not apply to weapons that sparkle delicately enough only in combat. I also will clarify that we are not talking about effects in raids or effects of character skills. In addition, here in FF14, we have an option to turn off some of the effects and it helps a lot, really.

New Pandaemonium gear is very beautiful, BUT. This does not apply to tank and dragoon/reaper armor effects. They really scared me because I've seen it once before and I know what it can lead to. Perhaps my message will seem too panicky, but believe me, I just know what I'm talking about.
I want to tell you about my 5 years experience of playing mmo, where there are a lot of similar effects on character gear. Effects that are displayed all the time.

In GW2, these are similar effects on armor. Similar effects in the form of infusions. Items that hang on the back. As a result - in raids, in metas in the open world, in fractals (dungeons), and just in the city, when people stand near an auction or a bank - it just burns out your eyes. A large crowd of people with bright shiny moving around them really reduces the quality of the viewer's vision. This is really bad for your health. This is tested not only on me, but also on many of my friends and acquaintances. It's not scary when you see it for 5-10 minutes. But when you look at all this splendor for hours... And it's everywhere... And you can't hide from it anywhere... At first, you don't notice anything special. Although some people wrote that they feel bad right away and their vestibular apparatus protests against all these moving bright sparkles. Аnd they are answered: "but this armor is so beautiful, these amazing shinies, this animation, we want more and more, give us more of these effects". And the developers brought us in gw2 more and more shiny. After all, they sold well. And I once adored these effects and didnt see anything wrong with them.

But over time, my vision gets worse. Headaches start when I enter in game. Eyes become red and watery.