Yoshi, your reply to Q22 in the XVIII Live Letter was false and dishonest.

[Edellis]

Here's an idea: How about we dump this idiotic glamour prism system and just have vanity slots like every sane mmorpg out there?

They do these ridiculous things to make the game more "unique" but in reality it's just it steals a lot of it's gameplay from other online games.

Actually, this does a very good job of keeping the game "unique". It's this thing called coherence, and despite the fact we can glamour anyway, it's pretty well maintained in FFXIV.

People always bring up this argument that allowing your character to look literally exactly how you want it is somehow inherently "better". Well, you know what, looking at "every other MMO" on the market, i feel like sometimes limitations are a good thing.

[Mimilu]

Actually, this does a very good job of keeping the game "unique". It's this thing called coherence, and despite the fact we can glamour anyway, it's pretty well maintained in FFXIV.

People always bring up this argument that allowing your character to look literally exactly how you want it is somehow inherently "better". Well, you know what, looking at "every other MMO" on the market, i feel like sometimes limitations are a good thing.

I don't get your argument. Having to waste money/time on getting prisms isn't unique, it's tedious. And the fact we have to do it repeatedly on the same piece of armor if we want to change doesn't help.
Vanity slots would be more streamline, cost effective for the users, and resolve ExKage's problem of classes/jobs sharing equipment-glamour.

[kyuven]

Vanity slots would be more streamline, cost effective for the users, and resolve ExKage's problem of classes/jobs sharing equipment-glamour.

PS3/character data limitations. Not kidding. Go read the Q&A under the question for why they won't add tackle boxes. If they won't add a separate box for the relatively small number (compared to the number of armor pieces) of different kinds of bait, i doubt they'll add vanity slots that would basically tax the system even more than that.

[Mimilu]

PS3/character data limitations. Not kidding. Go read the Q&A under the question for why they won't add tackle boxes. If they won't add a separate box for the relatively small number (compared to the number of armor pieces) of different kinds of bait, i doubt they'll add vanity slots that would basically tax the system even more than that.

Yoshi-P has also said that if PS3 limitations held the game back too much that they would cut it. Granted, that's also if there is a decline in PS3 users and/or enough people clamored for it and were leaving for other games because of it... :B

Source: http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen...p_features_of/

[Cynric]

snip.

That's not even close to the same thing as this.

Extra Inventory = more data saved on the character = memory limitation that's adding a whole new subset of inventory giving you much more data stored on your character relevant to the amount of items stored inside the tackle box plus your inventory itself, plus your key items, plus your actual character, their stats, your name, your looks.

Glamour is an already existing thing, the items already exist, you right now can wear any of the items you have the class for and store them all no problem. = not limited by memory.

Coding it separate from the armoury system is a whole different ballgame though.

[Tupsi]

PS3/character data limitations. Not kidding.

PS3? No. Data limitations in terms of causing more load for people thus increasing load times? Yes.

[TheRogueX]

PS3/character data limitations. Not kidding. Go read the Q&A under the question for why they won't add tackle boxes. If they won't add a separate box for the relatively small number (compared to the number of armor pieces) of different kinds of bait, i doubt they'll add vanity slots that would basically tax the system even more than that.

...but it wouldn't tax the system any more than the glamour system already does. Take Lord of the Rings Online, for instance; you don't keep the gear in your inventory. You equip it to your vanity slots and you put it away. If I remember correctly, you don't even have to keep it. This would, in fact, take up LESS data than the current system, because in the current system it has to keep track of every classes' equipment AND the glamours for each bit of equipment, where for this you'd just have a single vanity 'set' that takes precedence over any equipped gear. You could then have multiple vanity sets that you could switch back and forth between. You wouldn't have to re-glamour every time you got new gear, either.

Ultimately, their excuses are thin and not very good.

The only thing I want them to do right now is fix freaking Odin's armor so that I can glamour it to useful armor.