I’d find it difficult to explain why but this is how the colour schemes (/affect of new lighting) make me feel:
Old - exciting, colourful, attractive (the deeper contrast I think)
New - tired eyes (too exposed overall), realistic, cheap
It’s the cheap vs attractive that gets me. I think it’s the lighting doing it and that should be resolved checking patch notes. But there’s something definitely less alluring about it. It feels like it devalues your very fine art assets at the moment.
Yeah. Before it looked like a painted picture.
I think it’s not really the colours people here dislike but the much higher gamma.
In ESO you have this gamma slider. When you slide it to the max you get this same washed out display.
Shadows are affected and colours are less vibrant.
Maybe add a Gamma Adjustment slider to the graphics settings?
Some peeps like it natural and others with a colour pop.
Normal gamma
Max gamma
By George, I think he’s right!
We don’t have a gamma setting in the game.
And thats why he said:
It seems like it’s set by day/night/world settings and the new systems for that need adjusting but yes ideally we could control aspects of it ourselves at the client.
Your foliage details got better though 
Thats because the older picture was taken on my mac which has to be nearly at the lowest settings whereas i am playing on my new pc now which can max out all settings.
Compare these before and after.
I heard the dev team still work on lighting / color
hope they make it better , not like the style we have now …
I could stand there and just watch the view / build for hours,
but now i am trying to ignore everything and trying to focus on the new forge system and doors.
+1 for a gamma and/or saturation setting ingame! ^^
I am all for anything that does something about the bland worlds. If this would work so I can see a vibrant world (like we had before) and those that like the new lighting can keep it this way, I am all for it.
But hack … is that copper or ruby? …
… or does this looks like metal? …
… I know the old color was more brass then copper, but to be honest: This new color is more a stone or gem then a metal. Also, for building purposes the old color was a well match for gold and be used for a more darker, rustic look in architecture. It also looked well to build statues like the brass statues in the old days. So if you wanna keep it more redish then at least let it look like metal, BUT if you keep it red, give us a new metal for getting the options for building back! … Or make ores of metal from different worlds also to have different colors
Yeah buddy just kidding 
why no one sees the difference? please return colors.
when they introduced this update, I experienced a huge disappointment that I still feel
they said they were tweaking the lighting on their side for a bit of time. Might come live soon.
Hallelujah! I hope that the game will be as beautiful as before ! 
This topic is the answer to the question why there are so few of us left. Bring back the old saturation!
There are the old people who fell in love with the picture in this game. Now there is NO such pictures of the
You should have a look at the current Test Server (224).
Looks really promising.
