Glamours will be needlessly annoying...

[ispano]

Except you don't have to keep track of both sets, only parts of both, which would go with my "short sighted dev" comment. A memory issue like thie one you are saying caused them to use this poor system(at least the way it's been described, it could actually be good and just described poorly) would only happen if the devs originally had no plans for a vanity system and coded the armor pieces in such a way it would have to keep all of its information in memory while equipped.

Except you do. Having slots means the game needs to keep track of what's in every slot. Vanity and non Vanity. The way they're doing it, instead of the body piece you're wearing pointing to visual A, it points to visual B instead. With secondary slots, it has to keep track of those slots as well. Even if it's only a small amount of memory used to do so, when you're breaking yourself over 256MB as it is, anything helps.

[ShiroSteve]

I see no where in either interview that insinuates you will have to make a new crystal each time you get a new piece of gear and want its stats. It says that the glamour prism will mirror a chosen piece of armour onto your toon. I think this likely means that once the crystal is placed ( my prediction in a slot next your armoury slots) you will maintain that look regardless of what gear you place in the armoury slot.

[ispano]

I see no where in either interview that insinuates you will have to make a new crystal each time you get a new piece of gear and want its stats. It says that the glamour prism will mirror a chosen piece of armour onto your toon. I think this likely means that once the crystal is placed ( my prediction in a slot next your armoury slots) you will maintain that look regardless of what gear you place in the armoury slot.

In one of the letters or an interview a while back they said it wouldn't involve extra slots.

[L-D-Omlette]

In one of the letters or an interview a while back they said it wouldn't involve extra slots.

Maybe not in the same type of slot as our gear, but they will have to be placed somewhere, and it will likely get called a slot. Materia slots are still called slots. Shiro's prediction is a viable one.

[ispano]

Maybe not in the same type of slot as our gear, but they will have to be placed somewhere, and it will likely get called a slot. Materia slots are still called slots. Shiro's prediction is a viable one.

Considering most everything they've said in the past was about modifying the look of the items themselves(They've hinted a few times that it would be similar to the way WoW/Aion does it) AND that the prisms are meant to be cheap, I doubt it. I see them making the prism getting used once you apply it to an item.

[KraggyKor]

Edit: I found a posting of it with a better translation: http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen...naoki_yoshida/

It should be easy to access for everyone and shouldn’t cost too much,

Yeah, of course crafters won't be price-gouging hugely .. and Santa exists as well.

[FJerome]

Yeah, of course crafters won't be price-gouging hugely .. and Santa exists as well.

Like with everything they'll only price-gouge at the start of things. Give it a couple of weeks and prices will fall to reasonable levels because everyone will have flooded the market attempting to take advantage of the price-gouging.

[Yshnal]

Except you do. Having slots means the game needs to keep track of what's in every slot. Vanity and non Vanity. The way they're doing it, instead of the body piece you're wearing pointing to visual A, it points to visual B instead. With secondary slots, it has to keep track of those slots as well. Even if it's only a small amount of memory used to do so, when you're breaking yourself over 256MB as it is, anything helps.

That's saved server-side. It has nothing to do with the client. The only thing that the client needs to keep track of are the slots when you open your character window, and I highly doubt that that would increase the amount of memory by a lot if at all (it would be the equivalent of 12 bag slots, and it can be ignored simply by making that the client only shows either the current equiped gear slots OR the vanity gear slots, instead of showing both at once). So no, PS3 memory limitations has nothing to do with it.

[Autymnfyres]

Yeah, of course crafters won't be price-gouging hugely .. and Santa exists as well.

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With the way the markets have been For Crafters Who Want To Work Their Craft and Earn Gil Selling --- You just may be right KraggyKor. With plenty of understandable reasoning.

[Dedayius]

"Shouldn't cost too much" Just like housing would be affordable....