Quote Originally Posted by Nyarlko View Post
Ok, that avatar/trust thing must be what I was thinking of. ><;; For some reason I just fuzzily remembered it as "turn off all glowy effects". Thanks for the clarification. ^^

If you look thru or kept up with the last few years of devposts, you'd probably notice the same thing frequently popping up (paraphrased): "We can't do >that< because it would be the work equivalent of an entire monthly update." Yes, the game's not gonna implode if we hear it yet again, but it makes sense to avoid asking for things in a way that is likely to get that canned response since that also means that our suggestions are being trashed by default. We also know that there are hardware-related difficulties in adding any new models/animations at this point due to lack of PS2 devkits, which is why we haven't gotten anything actually "new" other than the three Master Trial weapons in the past 2yrs. "Adjustments" to Afterglow animations would almost certainly fall into that category, which is why I suggested tacking gear glow display onto the same command/config that turns off avatar/trust glows. I believe that it would be a simpler task to connect AG animations to the aura blocker command than it would be to directly change anything regarding animations.
That's just hyperfocusing on a response. If the devs respond they can't, it doesn't mean they now spent time answering questions that they could have been otherwise answering. It's not an AMA or interview. They already pick what they want to respond to.

It doesn't matter if there's hardware-related difficulties. You keep saying that over and over again in a lot of recent threads but seriously if they think something is feasible and a good idea, they will do it or not do it. What I meant by my earlier post is there's no need predictioning. Suggestions can be put out there and don't need to be shutdown with "oh well I know what SE can and cannot do based on what they said here and there". Until they literally tell us to stop providing feedback to graphical changes in any capacity because it's never gonna happen, don't shut people down.

If you want to quote SE's behavior and words, they also said another expansion is not completely off the table if they can do it. They've also added filters for tons of things there was no huge amount of requests for. There was no "welp no update this month because we added this filter option". You can disagree and not see a reason for it without speaking through SE.