The Emporer's New Clothes (New Chinese Exclusive Items)

[BrieEnna]

/squints at the earrings/ I would love if they started making those kinds of earrings in game.

[dragonseth07]

A good business decision, sure. But at the price of excluding a huge chunk of your playerbase. It's wrong, unfair, and if done too much, can really upset the people who are being excluded (and possibly affect profit as a result).

Just imagine how much more money they could've made if the promotion had been in multiple countries too? Sure, they ended up getting the outfits to other countries in the end, but if anything that's even more unfair. Because it goes to show who their first priority is (Japan, not NA/EU). Not the only way they show a strong preference for Japan either.

Until it actually starts costing subs (which, if it ever does, it will almost certainly be a minute number of people), it's a good call to suck it up and do what the other company wants for the promotion, rather than fight it and not do the event at all.

It sucks, but business is business.

[Vexander]

As long as we get them in due time, I'm willing to wait.

[JCharms]

Meh, I'm not feeling it. There's so much more glamour I'd like in this game other than another robe set number 53.

[Nicodemus_Mercy]

Oh look... yet another dress...

[Fyrebrand]

The only thing that could redeem this is if nobody but you could see it, and everyone else just sees you wearing underwear.

I LOVE this idea. It would be the best practical joke ever! Maybe for April Fool's Day. Does FFXIV even have that, by the way?

They could even release a real version later, without the trick. And people wouldn't trust it. They'd be all paranoid and demand that their friends e-mail them a screenshot of them wearing the robe.

[Lukha]

Oh look... yet another dress...

It's not a dress, it's a robe for a nobleman.

Super manly.

[CatStarPrime]

We don't share datacenter, so it's very rare to see half-naked people.

Around these here parts - at least, Balmung and Gilgamesh - it was not unusual (infrequent, but not unusual) to occasionally get put with a DF group of half-drunk (or completely drunk) FC members trying to wreck a Trial in underwear or swimsuits

Or, you know, BE one of said FC members.

[Shougun]

Looks quite cool, would love to see some ancient Chinese stuff brought across - I like a lot of their styles, and it has massive influences into other Asian cultures as well. Looks like the art on the right doesn't have some of the cool dangle bits on the left, hopefully they translate across. Perhaps the scroll becomes a unique glamour for Arcanist.

[Nicodemus_Mercy]

It's not a dress, it's a robe for a nobleman.

Super manly.

As if the game isn't riddled with such options already.