People sacrifice good gear for "fashion"

[charliesheen]

All I'm saying is that if one player in my party is complaining about another player's gear, guess who's getting kicked? It's not the one getting complained about, I'll tell you that for sure. Stuff like that makes the party no fun, and that's my goal, to have fun.

Winning! Life is all about having fun. Not being part of a regimented virtual borefest! Kudos to the warrior of fun, Molly Millions.

[Nabiri]

Some people just have a great lack of respect for other people and their choices. People can and should be able to wear what they like, no questions asked. Of course staying within rank range is a good idea, but no one should be forced to follow anyone else's personal rules.

There a lots of people who do things to look better even if it brings them discomfort. Look at women and things like Highheels, corsets, waxing, shaving, etc.

And the most uncomfortable... bras. XD

[Cairdeas]

Some people just have a great lack of respect for other people and their choices. People can and should be able to wear what they like, no questions asked. Of course staying within rank range is a good idea, but no one should be forced to follow anyone else's personal rules.



And the most uncomfortable... bras. XD

But Bras are so cute. Thus ends the thread.

[Nabiri]

I think it is selfish to ask someone to play a game in a way that YOU like and they don't. I think sometimes people forget that it is a game and meant to be enjoyed. Respect others and they'll respect you. Tell others how to play and they're probably not gonna like you too much. :3

But Bras are so cute. Thus ends the thread.

lol, alright you have a point. X3

[charliesheen]

Bras are efficient. They get the job done optimally. Wait... hands would do a better job than a bra.

[Peregrine]

This is a benign occurence, really it is. It's not an insistance to be gimp or an excuse or anything like in XI. Wear what looks good, because the stats don't matter is what they're pretty much joking.

I'm happy that at least the population knows stats don't do anything when they don't do anything. In FFXI, people held stats in too high an esteem for what they actually did. It's almost better to slowly crank up the value of stats as opposed to start them off brutal, so the entire game isn't indoctrinated with this whole NNNNNGAHHHHH STATS mentality.

Now the B-type personalities run the game and the STAAAAAAAAATS people don't have as much of a position to dictate what's acceptable.

[Mireille]

Like ffxi endgame, if you decided your not in the mood to go your labled selfish. Why should someone dictate what I can or can't do on my time in a game i play just for enjoyment? The real selfish people are the ones to take it upon themselves to act like the game police. That you have to follow these "rules" or else. And if you do not, you are labled as rude, selfish, gimp, bad etc.

Stuff like this lead to cookie cutting which make playing mmo boring.

Setting aside the argument over courtesy there is some truth to the idea that XI endgame was run like a workplace, and not an entertainment. This made people lots of people stop attending. I think people should be satisfied with rules that give greater rewards to those who attend regularly, and not beat up players who do endgame casually.

I know a guy with all jobs at 90 in XI but his gear was poor, and someone posted about it on FFXIAH. Aside from making a guy feel like he'd been /slaped I don't know that that post accomplished other than to make the poster feel good about himself for picking on someone.

Everyone knows it's all about how you look in MMOs!

I'd argue its all about social status. Ones clothing has always been tied to social status, but so are job, car, house and spouse. At this point we have no chocobo's, no mog houses, no in game weddings, and most of the people who have played from the start have at least one rank 50 job. That pretty much leaves clothes. Hopefully by the PS3 launch we will have a mount system, and maybe even housing.

[Aveline]

I've tanked NMs on GLA in a coatee before just for fun and we won just as easily as when I was in full tank gear lol. I agree with the other 9 pages of responses--gear in this game does not mean that much at all, and if someone doesn't want to wear the exact same set as every other CON, THM, LNC, whatever, then why get down on them for it? That's just as bad, IMO, as those people who rushed to spend all their gil in September on haubergeons and stomped around in them at R10 pretending to be elite.

[Duelle]

All I'm saying is that if one player in my party is complaining about another player's gear, guess who's getting kicked? It's not the one getting complained about, I'll tell you that for sure. Stuff like that makes the party no fun, and that's my goal, to have fun.

What is this blasphemy? Fun? In MY MMO?!? WTH! :O

[Miquinee]

Good Gear is the gear that looks good on you.