Moonfire Faire

Wow...they couldn't put a single bathing suit on the Faire Vendor the expansion they add swimming?!?! Talk about greed...

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Originally Posted by eschaton

Ok how about this one:

The shisui class-sets weren't supposed to be dye-able at all, but seeing how popular they became in-game, they decided to give us a dye-able set at the next appropriate event.

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Seeing how they said that gear takes half a year to make, I cant see how this summer event was just created after SB went live. Anyway if they thought that this would be an popular gear set, why could they not have included all of the sets? This would not only mean that people will have more inventory slots free but you would have more do to at the event. I mean I did it a short while ago and I did it at a slow pace and was done with everything in under half an hour.

But I do have to compliment them: The additions to the zones are nice and I like to swim there. It looks way better than any under water zones like the ruby sea, so I was positively surprised by that. Yet sadly the event itself did not really feel like much.

http://i.imgur.com/VvlypK3.jpg

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Originally Posted by Ayerinn

Wow...they couldn't put a single bathing suit on the Faire Vendor the expansion they add swimming?!?! Talk about greed...

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Obviously opinions will vary, but I feel like SE has been incredibly heavy-handed with the cash shop for a subscription game. And normally this is when people will scream that "WoW has had a cash shop for years!" or that times are just changing with MMOs, and both of these are true. The amount of items though, and exclusive items to boot, is insane.

Going back to a post I made in March, at that time, you could buy all of the items from XIV's cash shop for a bit over $990 (this was including only female versions of outfits, single dyes and full sets of items only. No fantasias, world transfers or other "account" items). For comparison, WoW's cash shop at that time could be bought out for about $388.

tl;dr: I agree that SE is incredibly greedy.

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Originally Posted by Celef

What we really need is for them to remove that stupid job restriction on glam....I mean why on earth can I wear a bikini or a pig suit as a tank but not a healer / DPS set, that's just stupid

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This I really wish they would abandon. The excuse used makes little sense for the precise reason you said. "People would be confused seeing healers in armour!" Yes, but that isn't a problem when I put my tank in a mini skirt. Of course, Artifact gear should be left restricted since it's meant to reflect a specific job.

yeah! I hate the fact that healer and dps caster gear is usually the same but with different color schemes. I think glam should be a free system BESIDES job artifact gear.

Plus, gender set restrictions being lifted...

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Originally Posted by Bourne_Endeavor

This I really wish they would abandon. The excuse used makes little sense for the precise reason you said. "People would be confused seeing healers in armour!" Yes, but that isn't a problem when I put my tank in a mini skirt. Of course, Artifact gear should be left restricted since it's meant to reflect a specific job.

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Job restrictions on glamour have never made much sense, but with the crafting and gathering gear in 4.X so far, it seems they are increasing the restrictions rather than reducing them. The whole healer wearing metal armor being a problem thing exited stage left when SE started giving metal armor to casters themselves and of course with metal armor glamor sets. Just be done with it already SE, remove the glamour restrictions based on job/class/role. That said, I do agree with keeping Artifact gear specific to jobs, it is specifically part of the job identity and should not be shared.

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Originally Posted by Bourne_Endeavor

This I really wish they would abandon. The excuse used makes little sense for the precise reason you said. "People would be confused seeing healers in armour!" Yes, but that isn't a problem when I put my tank in a mini skirt. Of course, Artifact gear should be left restricted since it's meant to reflect a specific job.

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Though even then I don't stop being a White Mage or change physical shape just because I'm punching things or throwing cards around instead of rocks. In terms of lore and character building it absolutely doesn't make sense to have any kind of job-locked gear when you can have one character capable of canonically mastering multiple disciplines. And there are some pieces which are irrelevant as AF (e.g. the SMN AF2 leg-ribbons which you cannot even see when the full AF2 set is equipped; SMN doesn't have a monopoly on ribbons in FF) which would make nice glamour pieces for other sets on any job if mixing and matching was encouraged.

The most classic job symbol is probably the WHM red triangle pattern, but any healer can use that with the Genji set IIRC and the male GARO healer coat has dyeable triangles too. It's all silly and I strongly believe that everything should be glamourable if you have earned the right to wear it on your character once.

(Sorry, totally on your side but I needed a rant!)

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Originally Posted by Skivvy

"WoW has had a cash shop for years!" or that times are just changing with MMOs, and both of these are true.

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I wouldn't hold either as valid arguments to any extent either.

Just because another game did something unpleasant doesn't mean its alright to accept it elsewhere (nor that it was alright for it to be normalized there). Precedent is not necessarily valid as justification.

And the "Well, things change." argument is just a matter of apathy and acceptance of increasingly negative traits. If we just accept a negative 'change' then sure, it'll stick around and things will continue going down a negative spiral.

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Originally Posted by eschaton

The shisui class-sets weren't supposed to be dye-able at all, but seeing how popular they became in-game, they decided to give us a dye-able set at the next appropriate event.

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i'm glad i don't need to farm shisui set for all my jobs... <3