Poor Designed Weapon's.

[Dreadnought]

I highly doubt that these weapons took long or much effort to make, I still think it just looks like they lopped off ifrits horns from his .dat and merged them with existing meshes.

i kind of wonder this as a FFXI modder.
Yoshi himself said it takes 6 months to create one set of armor. this is absurd to me because meshes can be copy and pasted and textures shouldnt take long at all to create.
it led me to believe that this time includes every process from market planning to actual implementation and not just the modeling.

[Teknoman]

I'll tell you what you guys SHOULD have been complaining about: Those jester hats for mages.

[OMEGA_HACK]

Just want to point out that Harpoons (subtype of polearm) are quite organically created/looking, there are wands that look like tree branches, a sword made from wood with spikes as a blade (all our weapons are quite organic imo). They aren't changing the style at all, we killed a monster...we turned it into a weapon. Same thing as before, we cut down a bush...we made it into a wand, etc etc. The ONLY problem (again imo) is the size of some of the weapons, they are just too unrealistically over the top. (Everything else I love, I love the glow, I love the art direction, I love that sexy lance!) But they are a tad too bulky for my taste.

[Dreadnought]

I'll tell you what you guys SHOULD have been complaining about: Those jester hats for mages.

THAAAANK YOOUUU
and cotton candy pink robes.... oh wait they took care of that dire issue XD

you see i personally thought the cotton candy pink robes stuck out like a sore thumb and could not stand the site of them. however, i knew i had no control over their existance.
i just felt that tone of pink was wrong for the game.

[Betelgeuzah]

You do realize that all of the current crafted gear comes from only within the confines of Eorzea right?

Like I said in my first sentence, I don't mean the region-specific art direction but the overall art direction of the game as a whole. There are multiple layers and not just one. Every item no matter where it originates from should follow these basic principles to not make them feel detached from the rest of the game.

Within these boundaries you can pick pretty much any theme and style you want, be it ifrit's horn or near eastern scimitar.

[Rubicon]

Sure, it's another attention whore who wants recognition on the forums. Let's give it to him/her!

[Jynx]

They aren't changing the style at all, we killed a monster...we turned it into a weapon. Same thing as before, we cut down a bush...we made it into a wand, etc etc. The ONLY problem (again imo) is the size of some of the weapons, they are just too unrealistically over the top. (Everything else I love, I love the glow, I love the art direction, I love that sexy lance!) But they are a tad too bulky for my taste.

I think thats a massive reach to try and say they are not out of style with the game. Sleek and elegant is the motto for most items in the game so far, Ifirit weapons are as you say Bulky, but also "Dull" looking.

[Meleena]

All you've done lately as far as I'm seeing is post single sentences quoting the points you like praising them and quoting posts you don't like bashing them, in almost, should I say, trollish fashion. There is nothing you have to actually contribute. Your opinion has become clear to all of us the third time, so that doesn't need much emphasizing either.

The only thing I see you and your 10 friends doing lately is posting the same thing over and over in different topics (one for each friend or double account) and complain about the same useless thing.
Things are not going to change cause they are fine as it is, accept it, get over it, or just quit the game and stop spamming the forum.

[yukikaze_yanagi]

oh god, not this again.
It's an item. you like it? cool.
you don't like it ? you don't start an ideological war. You just don't like it

[GabbaGabba]

Calling BS on you being a developer. As a developer you OWE your customers a good product. That is how you'd still be a developer. Also by your logic, we shouldn't have whined that FFXIV was complete crap 1 year ago because, as you yourself just said, we shouldn't have gone "up in arms trying forcing them to change it". No, the dev team is held to a standard set by the people who are going to buy/buying their product. If they do not meet those standards they will probably find themselves getting fired by the parent company.

yes its our jobs to develop a game that people want to play. but it speaks more volume when a large population quit after the first month than it does when a group of people try to say they are speaking for the majority and say that its wrong or its not working.

i recieve criticism and feedback daily from my team and at the end of the day, thats the only opinion i will listen to. not everyone is going to appeal to the game but if ur constantly changing something because one client wants this and another wants that, u will never be done. my job is stay with the direction of my team and stay true to the game. cause at the end of the day, its my time and my effort that i am putting in. people will either love or hate it, its just part of the business.