Costume system

[Cabalabob]

Ok. That's...nice and all. Now that:

• We've lost 3/4 our player base to XIV or other alternatives
• You are recycling content we've had since 2003 (RoZ)
• Important events REQUIRED for weapon upgrades are dying/dead (Voidwatch)
• REM players are forced to spend weeks/millions to make their weapons viable again after being shafted to begin with for almost a year.

The fact that a project level of this capacity is even being CONSIDERED by the staff bothers me. The new armor sets, including these new sparkly new AF upgrades, look like Vana'diel just puked out a 99 [insert job here] from Valkurm Dunes. While I always appreciate new things to do and new content to be challenged with, am I supposed to expect to be fighting Hard/Extreme mode Promathia in a year from now in my Leather Jerkin? A simple adjustment to a monsters level and SE labels it as new content. That's pretty embarrassing, even for me.

Vanity system is great. I'm sure a lot of players will be happy about it. But SE, you have far bigger problems to worry about. You're not going to win back players and retain current ones without picking up your slack everywhere else. You've deemed it necessary to give us vanity slots, before we ever get race changes, character customizations, a plethora of other additions or fixes for bugs that have existed for years, and updates for currently viable (but now dying/dead) content.

I've been fairly quiet and understanding over the past 12 years, but this bothers me.

You sound like a homeless person who when given an apple says "what's the matter mr. Money bags? Too cheap for a hamburger?"

When the previous director answered people's cries to fix blinking he basically said it was impossible, now we have a new director who is looking for a way around it AND giving us a system where we can wear what gear we want and all you can say is "why you no do good things?"