A better guild crest system would be nice

[AngryNixon]

This one sucks.

The ultra limited set to choose from is terrible. Terrible in that it's ultra limited, and the choices themselves are also terrible.

One more frontier this 'next gen' product fell far short of the mark on. Some sort of basic "MS Paint" knock-off to design your own guilds crests isn't rocket science either, but I'm sure there is some complex fail-problem that makes it unlikely and currently impossible like the server issues stifling the mail system. I bet SE thought this sorry excuse was top of the line when they pieced it together from an idea someone saw in a trendy game magazine showing the latest in game features from over a decade ago.

For ease of reference, see Aion's crest system. Not a great game and definitely not a super futuristic crest design system with lasers etc... but at least it gives one a very good idea of what qualifies as passable in the 21st century for supposedly "new" games.

Yes it's a useless aesthetic feature but plenty of things are. Could also say having more than one colour for your armour was also useless. Not really the point.

[Platinumstorm]

Absolutely. The crest system is bad.

[Lienn]

Indeed...its under the minimum for uniqueness purpose, which would de 3 colors + stamp. But IMO the correct would be it or accepting a crest upload at lodestone or having a system similar to Mario Kart DS, where you have a mini app similar to the old Mario Paint (SNES) where you not only have crest templates but, if you feel like it, you can manually draw it in a 80x80 pixeled window.

[AngryNixon]

Indeed...its under the minimum for uniqueness purpose, which would de 3 colors + stamp. But IMO the correct would be it or accepting a crest upload at lodestone or having a system similar to Mario Kart DS, where you have a mini app similar to the old Mario Paint (SNES) where you not only have crest templates but, if you feel like it, you can manually draw it in a 80x80 pixeled window.

Ya something like that is in keeping with the uniqueness commensurate with a modern game.

[Hotohori]

The crest pattern choices and the color schemes are all just horrible. Would it be so bad to have some that look decent or creative. Non symmetric checkers or squiggly lines don't fit well with the shape of a shield at all.

[MistyMew]

agreed, need the ability to upload personalized crests, and offer many more premade patterns for those that would still like those.

[Xeak]

I think adding in more crest templates with the color scheme like FFXI had would make it loads better. And like how the crests have 2 colors, you can adjust each color, or maybe even choose how many different colors you want, whether it's 1 or 10 (probably 2 being minimum though, I don't know).

[Raizen_Reyne]

Indeed when I first logged into FFXIV at release I was shocked at how bad and simple the crest system is.... and it remains bad still :\

[Rentahamster]

The LS symbol is yet another thing that during beta I thought, "This is a cute placeholder, I can't wait to see what it'll be like when retail hits!"

And then when retail hit:


I really don't see why the current system needs to be so limited in colors and design choices. There are way too many LSes that accidentally pick the same design and color as another LS.

[Rau]

the "MS Paint ripoff" thing is probably not going to happen.

I doubt SE wants a bunch of linkshells with penis emblems next to their names running around.