Why are most players content with putting on generic glamour?

[Domeric]

What's the top 15 list?

[Enur]

I personally despise the "everyday modern clothing"

The game for me started as a fantasy game with steampunk elements (I started august 2015). The 1.0 gear looks great and can be mixed and still look like a functioning set. I wish we had more gear in that "realistic" yet still eorzean look. The way the different leathers shine and the different cloth textures blend is really well done imo, despite the low resolution. It saddens me to see the new gear, each looks like they try to outdo the other with a "Cool" factor. No gear is made with the 1.0 style anymore. Way too many unnecessary bells and whistles and belts are are added. Why not make some more gear in the simple and charming style of the low lvl gear?

The 1.0 gear also seems to have been designed more from an individual piece viewpoint. The items werent made to only look good in a single set, they can be mixed as you please. They feel like an actual item i could imagine someone in a fantasy setting would craft, or order.

Fashion is great and all but it really kills the mood for me to have every set include a tuxedo or tie in some way.

[Vurtney]

You know you have a great glamour on your character when a teen with raging hormones starts to hit on her, literally. I wish i was joking. It felt so awkward.

[UnstablePersonality]

I just wear the field commander coat..I'd love it to be dye able..but I like it anyway..plus not a lot of people have it.

[Antonio_Xul]

I've been complimented on my semi-permanent glamour a few times. A lot of people ask me where I got my coat, I tell them. I don't care if they use it. It isn't exclusive to me.

[Tatiana]

Honestly the reason is that there aren't all that many good options that are accessible/relatively easy to get without spending a lot of money (either in-game, or irl mog station). Over time it will continue to improve as they add more stuff, but it's gonna need to not be gated behind really difficult content or massive time sinks for you to see an abundance of it. I like my current glamour because it feels "Final Fantasy-ish", and has a signature sort of JRPG appearance. It was gated behind content that took time to get, but wasn't overly difficult, however a lot of the nice pieces require tons of time to get.

[Nicodemus_Mercy]

Half of my server rock the Uraeus coat glamour and the other half are the generic Miqote and au ra girls with the 'dancer girl' skimpy thavnarian outfits.

Don't you guys take a look at your character and think: "Gee I look like everyone else. Maybe I should try to farm for a drop so when I do glamour, at least I can appear more unique and not a copy/paste of everyone else."

But nope. People are perfectly happy making characters that look exactly like everyone else. I just don't get that.

If you see more people using the same skins rather than taking advantage of the numerous options available, its probably due to aesthetic tastes. That's my reason at any rate.

I am not content with most of the styles offered in the game. So many armor pieces are pseudo-dresses with unnecessary dangling bits, skirts, etc. Too many chest pieces are poofy robes or look like some old fashioned aristocrat. Even the plate style armors suffer from being pseudo-dresses half the time. Males in particular have very few options that don't fall under "long tunic", "poofy robe", "basically a dress". I'm a huge fan of Rupaul's Drag Race... I just don't want my male Miqote looking like he's going to lip-synch for his life. Also keep in mind that class/job requirements on gear can limit your options for an outfit you like. That's another reason why you might see the lvl 1/unrestricted glamour gear very often.

I like the starter male Miqote set coupled with the Lominsan Soldier's Boots to get rid of the poofy part of the pants. This outfit is great for a swashbuckler/roguish type look and doesnt sport too many needless accents and dangling bits. It shows skin without being barechested. It's masculine but sexy and looks great with its default coloring or when dyed.

I like Uraeus Coat for my Healing jobs because it looks great dyed white and shows some skin on my male Miqote without being bare chested. It does bug me that its a long coat (borderline pseudo-dress), but the overall look is aesthetically pleasing and the pop of red with the white is thematically appropriate for my WHM. If the coat was only waist length I'd be absolutely in love with it.

The Wind Silk Coatee is one of the few chest pieces that isn't a long tunic or pseudo-dress. I use this (dyed black) coupled with the Thancred modish pants and boots for my gladiator glamour currently. It's not quite as tight as I'd like but it looks good and, again, isn't a dress.

The Extreme Survival Shirt is a relatively recent and welcome addition to chest pieces that aren't friggin dresses that looks good by default and dyed.

I use the Light Steel Galerus chest glamour for my Marauder class currently. Not 100% sure I'll stick with it but it shows skin (a bit more than I want) and has some cool metal bits. Most importantly though... IT'S NOT A FRIGGIN DRESS. It also isn't overwhelming like much of the armor in this game can be.

TLDR: If you're seeing lots of the same glamours being used, its because the majority of people like those styles more than the alternative, less popular options. I also believe people care less about "looking like everyone else" and care more about "being happy with how my character looks". If the devs want to encourage more diversity in glamour use, then a) we need more non-class specific options, b) more options that aren't poofy or "dress-like" and c) more options (specifically chest options) that aren't overly accented with dangling bits and useless flaps of cloth (I'm looking at you Thancred modish top that would be aweosme if not for those green lenghts of cloth on the sides).

[Dzian]

A lot of it is personal taste. for a few of my jobs I find the stuff I like to be an incredibly small selection.

my paladin for example is still glamoured in a gallant surcoat partly because so much of the tanky stuff of late sports dumb ass capes or full length coaty designs which i'm personally not a huge fan of. so when it comes to body pieces my options are rather limited. be nice to see more options without long coats or capes.

my healers used to rock the old demon set from world of darkness because again not a huge fan of a lot of the newer sets that have come out since. would love to see more magey dalmatica type bodies rather than endless coats and robes. the 250 Alexandrian healer set isn't too bad currently glamoured onto my scholar. just wish it was dyable.

my ninja is glamoured in the 210 iga because it's probably the only set in the game that actually looks ninja like mines dyed pure white because being the only ninja looking glamour set its seems a popular one for ninjas to use for glamour so instead of using the same dark colors everyone else does i went the other way and used white. .. this also kinda falls under the same issue i have with tanks. a lot of the ninja garb sports dumb capes or long coats which i'm not a big fan of.

and my blm rocks the prototype Alexandrian set which i personally really like. and before that it was replica allagan glamour. kinda also wish blm had a few more dalmatica style bodies to choose from.

all in all there isn't much i actually like glamour wise. it seems like 90% of the body pieces around stuff are full length coats and capes and some of them carry way tooo much bling nd addons. the hell fire set would have been a bit better if it didn't have all them huge spikes all over it for example, glamoured that straight away cos of all the clipping issues with shields and stuff. but that's also why my character doesn't have long hair..

Edit. oh hey Nicodemus_Mercy has basically said the same thing just minutes before me.

[Allyrion]

Liking something because others like it is silly. I think just as bad to dislike something because others like it. I'd rather see someone wearing something generic if that's what they think looks good than someone who limits their choices for the sake of being different.

Identity is good and standing out can be fun, but I don't think you should make aesthetic decisions based on what other people are doing. That's just my own take anyway.

[Clethoria]

A lot of it is personal taste. for a few of my jobs I find the stuff I like to be an incredibly small selection.

This is why I wish for cross class glamouring. I love thigh high boots but the sleekest design are the Expeditioner's Boots. Everything else for MNK is barely knee high, or too bulky. Meanwhile DoM have thigh highs for days. And really nice coats. I want to punch things, but I wanna do it in style. Would also like to WAR in a cute dress or nice skirt, but nope.

You have some wiggle room when putting together an outfit, but it's still limited.