Quote Originally Posted by Lycieus View Post
Are you referring to freemium in the literal sense, or is this just a blanket term for all f2p mmos?

Also, I'm not exactly sure what your point is. Duping is bad, I think everyone can agree, but it's not a major issue in any MMO I can think of that I've played or can think of. Square has had issues with people exploiting gil and items anyway in the past. Is your post supposed to be some sort of excuse for them to not solve this problem because their execution might be shoddy?
It IS a major issue in all MMORPG's and is the entire reason why we are stuck with low inventory sizes. The server has to tell the client, every single time, any inventory item changes, what the current inventory is. Because of the amount of item bloat in this game, it's not reasonable to keep thousands of items on the character. There are ways around this, which include bank systems (which is another source of "dupe bugs") and Armoire/closet/housing instances (also a way for dupe bugs to crop up) , but they are much easier to solve or create counter-measures for when they can be written to disk instead of constantly synced from RAM.

I'm not sure exactly why SE has not given us a glamour log, but it seems directly related to syncing data. If you could only change your glamours in your housing instance or inn, that should not be a problem at all. But all the glamours you can switch to, while walking around, have to be in the server's memory so that when you approach other characters with that glamour, they see it, and not the gear you are wearing. Perhaps the underlying mechanic is that instead of "wearing X, display Y" it's actually "display X, stats of Y", which could create a problem during combat. Who knows.... well the botters would know.

Quote Originally Posted by Naunet View Post
The many MMOs I've mentioned previously in this thread that possess a glamour log do NOT have issues with "dupe bugs", nor do they have widespread crashes and rollbacks.
Just because you don't experience it on one server, doesn't mean it doesn't happen on another, or a version localized for another language. To give an example from one game, you had one "paper doll" for the character, and one "glamour doll" for the gear you wanted to show. If you weren't paying the fee for service, the glamour panel got locked out and you could not change the glamour, only remove it. But nobody noticed it expire until you logout and log back in. Some people can stay logged in for weeks by just sticking something on their keyboard or controller and walk in circles in an empty dungeon or housing instance.

Which is what I'm getting at. We've been told multiple times that the game's safety is paramount, and if the lack of a Glamour Log has anything to do with syncing, that would explain it, but that seems to be too quick of a cop-out. It's obviously not going to be disk storage space. There are plenty of things that FFXIV does correctly, cross-realm, and cross-data center that seem to be equally as complicated and possible to screw up, why not just create a way to save Glamour's to a list, and apply them to a gear set, and only be able to change them at the armoire? Or maybe just allow putting all dyeable gear into the armoire in the first place with a "customized gear" tab.