Quote Originally Posted by Wind-Krysvein View Post
Welp, I'll be damned. I almost missed this little bit from Yoshi-P's latest post:

It has been a joy to watch you all play, each in your own unique way, but we’ve become aware of several issues that may have proven a hinderance to your overall experience. For that, I sincerely apologize. We’ve already announced on the Lodestone that a number of these issues are presently under investigation, but rest assured we will be doing everything in our power to address them as quickly as possible. You can expect a follow-up announcement as soon as fixes are ready for implementation.

I'm probably just becoming delusional, but is this what I think it might be? It's impossible to tell due to his almost politician-level vague manner of speech, but with any luck this is proof that the devs might actually be working on a solution. Here's hoping.

If you haven't sent a support ticket about this eye strain issue yet, please do so at your earliest convenience. The more people we get to voice their problems, the more manpower they'll (hopefully) assign to deal with the issue.
https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...19d46241037cb6

Although initially addressing housing interior brightness, it goes on to explain some of the problems about lighting in general. It might, er, shed some light on some issues we've been experiencing in this thread, and the proposed fix may help some of us here. In short, there is indeed a cause for some hope here.