Alma's Attire in Mogstation (new) and Jump Start Sale

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Originally Posted by Destati

I've been waiting on some of the Korean items, and some emotes I remember seeing a while back.

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Honestly, I feel like that floaty Korean dress just isn't coming to the western market. But it's one that I really want, clipping be darned (because the princess dress proved they don't care for clipping, and that's here)

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Originally Posted by Ultimatecalibur

Alma's costume was part of the 13 new model sets created for the Ivalance Raids. It is actually a recolor of her namesake's outfit from FFT (that coloration gets used in several cutscenes).

As other have pointed out Y'sthola is one of FFXIV's representative characters (Zenos being the villain representative) in things like Dissidia. Y'shtola's new Sorceress outfit (and Zenos' upcoming Court Attire) was likely developed in part thanks to Dissidia's dev resources.

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I still don't get why they made a unique one for her, she did very little in the story and not one for Ramza. Still not sure why that means Y'shtola was the only one to get a unique outfit and why she's not a black mage with the black mage AF like Uraianger and Thancred

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Originally Posted by jameseoakes

I still don't get why they made a unique one for her, she did very little in the story and not one for Ramza. Still not sure why that means Y'shtola was the only one to get a unique outfit and why she's not a black mage with the black mage AF like Uraianger and Thancred

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If Ys'htola was a black mage she'd frickin' AoE better.

This mog update seems...meagre. Yeah, that's I'm gonna go with. Meagre.

I'll say one good thing about this: At least it's in separate pieces instead of all being one piece like some outfits. *cough*Minfilia*cough*

Other than that, it's gonna be a hard pass for me.

I really do wish they'd just let us dye them. If they're going to sell them to begin with they can go back and take the time to add color mapping to the mesh. Use the projected profits the item's going to make to fund it if need be.

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Originally Posted by Destati

This is the second time in a row they released a female-locked outfit.

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I believe it's the third time, actually.

>Minfilia's white dress
>Krile's outfit
>Now Alma's
And Yshtola's dress is yet to come.

We're also getting the female stuff ported over to the guys, which is great for guys that always wanted to wear it, but that's still not giving the guys something new; it's picking something that's already there, available and designed for the girls, again, and porting it over to the guys.
Sad update, but then again SE seems to pay more attention to female NPCs outfits than the male ones, which means there isn't much to add to the mog station.
A lot of male NPCs wear clothes you can get through playing the game or just crafted/AF/dungeon gear, while the girls wear something more unique. From the guys' perspective it's very frustrating to see so many exclusives being added back to back, and for the girl's perspective it's very stupid to see the Gunbreaker and Astrologian "npc" outfits being ingame as rewards while Yshtola's isn't the Black Mage one, and will be added to the mogstation instead.

By now we all know that SE sees the profit on gating certain female clothes behind a paywall, and maybe not enough male characters are that interested on mog station clothing. imo it's because male character design in this game is very lazy and uninspiring when it comes to their wardrobe compared to the girls, but oh well.
At this point I'm convinced that at some point they will give us the Exarch outfit but it will be unisex instead because that's how things are.

There's a lot of people who play male characters who would purchase masculine looking gear if the same amount of effort was put into designing the gear in the first place. Myself included. I mentioned it earlier, but games like Fortnite and Overwatch provide outfits for both female and male characters in equal measure. Last I checked, both were pretty profitable and such a move was well received.

Another issue is that for some strange reason we didn't get Hien's hairstyle as part of his set. I guarantee that the sales would be a lot higher if that were the case. It doesn't help that Yoshi-P plays a female character himself and frequently agrees that it'd be 'cool' to add specific female outfits to the game when they're brought up but when someone suggests adding a male outfit (or additional stubble options) he claims that it's 'too hard' or that they don't want to add gear used by the 'bad guys' for some bizarre reason.

(Not that it stopped them adding Edda's outfit despite her being an antagonist.)

Ultimately people just need to keep pushing for such things to be added at every possible turn when and where it is relevant.

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Originally Posted by jameseoakes

I still don't get why they made a unique one for her, she did very little in the story and not one for Ramza. Still not sure why that means Y'shtola was the only one to get a unique outfit and why she's not a black mage with the black mage AF like Uraianger and Thancred

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Because money

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Originally Posted by Theodric

I wouldn't be surprised. Less effort seems to be put into the gear used by male NPC's for some strange reason, even when they have a more prominent role in the story.

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I feel that they've been roughly about even in the uniqueness department