The glamour system is awful. We deserve an overhaul.

[Arkdra]

Honestly, I don't care how difficult it is. It is the number 1 feature I want in this game. If WoW can eventually do it then so can FF14. If it takes them an expansion or 2 fine, but I want the answer to, "when are we getting a glamour log like every other modern mmo?"to be, "we're working on it, it's difficult, but please look forward to it!" and not some weird waffly nonsense about ahievements.

There is nothing they could cut from the game or their content pipeline that I wouldn't happily trade for a glamour log. Casual raids? Sure whatever. Hardcore raids? Don't care. Never add anything to the gold saucer again until it's done? Great. No more experimental content like potd, diadem, or aquapolis? Fantastic. No expansion again for the 4 years it takes us to unbork our backend? Fine with me.

Yoshi P give me the dang glamour log!

[Naunet]

Honestly, I don't care how difficult it is. It is the number 1 feature I want in this game. If WoW can eventually do it then so can FF14. If it takes them an expansion or 2 fine, but I want the answer to, "when are we getting a glamour log like every other modern mmo?"to be, "we're working on it, it's difficult, but please look forward to it!" and not some weird waffly nonsense about ahievements.

There is nothing they could cut from the game or their content pipeline that I wouldn't happily trade for a glamour log. Casual raids? Sure whatever. Hardcore raids? Don't care. Never add anything to the gold saucer again until it's done? Great. No more experimental content like potd, diadem, or aquapolis? Fantastic. No expansion again for the 4 years it takes us to unbork our backend? Fine with me.

Yoshi P give me the dang glamour log!

I agree completely.

[Whocareswhatmynameis]

I agree completely.

Well I don't... I'd rather have real content instead of making this game more like a Barbie dress up simulator. I agree with Yoshida, there are more important things to work on. People can use glamour prisms to change the look of their characters already.

[Naunet]

Well I don't... I'd rather have real content instead of making this game more like a Barbie dress up simulator. I agree with Yoshida, there are more important things to work on. People can use glamour prisms to change the look of their characters already.

As I've said before - what good is content when I can't store anymore armors? My #1 motivation for running content in MMOs is to collect cool/pretty/etc armors and weapons. A glamour log is absolutely critical - and it affects far more than just playing dress up.

[TaranTatsuuchi]

I would rather have ANY form of new content instead of the devs working on glamour books that would only mainly benefit one server..... BALMUNG.

Many people benefit from glamor, not just Balmung.
In fact, you yourself have glamored gear on...

People need to stop asking about a Glamour Log or whatever. It got brought up again today at E3, and again was rejected as not viable for FFXIV's systems.

So maybe instead of clinging to the notion and bringing it up at every opportunity, we should instead try asking the developers on what their take on a better system might be?

It was not rejected as an idea.
Yoshi stated they were talking internally about what kind of system they could do.

They said they couldn't just store all that item data on the character and transfer it every time they change zones. (Sounds like a rather iffy system to me...)

But, if we compromise and drop the ability to glamor anywhere, we could then have a specific item or npc that would allow us to glamor.
And that would keep all the glamor log data seperate from the character and only need it to be brought up when the character wanted to add items to the log, or to glamor an item.

The same way the retainers are coded.



I know I have gotten to the point where I just can't spare the space to keep glamor gear on me, and have to stop at my retainers to glamor anyway.

[Zojha]

They said they couldn't just store all that item data on the character and transfer it every time they change zones.

Why do they even need all the item data? >_>

You need a binary that checks if you have an appearance unlocked and the data for the appearance or a functional link to it so that the prisms know which model to use.

I don't see how that is so much more data than, say, the fishing guide.

[SendohJin]

Why do they even need all the item data? >_>

You need a binary that checks if you have an appearance unlocked and the data for the appearance or a functional link to it so that the prisms know which model to use.

I don't see how that is so much more data than, say, the fishing guide.

because they built a system where right now my Company Tabard is dyed Royal Blue and i can glamour it onto anything and it's still Royal Blue. if it's like the fishing guide you wouldn't be able to do that, you would have to redye the piece every time after you glamour it. so they built a system that's more robust and more complicated than they needed it to be and it comes with these other limitations that are hard to work around without working the entire system back.

it's a lot like housing and the Chocobo Companion, they had all these ideas for it and built them to be sophisticated and it's really difficult for them to walk it back. they had to work the Chocobo back to be not a party member before they can do things like DF with them summoned.

[savageink]

Honestly, I don't care how difficult it is. It is the number 1 feature I want in this game. If WoW can eventually do it then so can FF14. If it takes them an expansion or 2 fine, but I want the answer to, "when are we getting a glamour log like every other modern mmo?"to be, "we're working on it, it's difficult, but please look forward to it!" and not some weird waffly nonsense about ahievements.

There is nothing they could cut from the game or their content pipeline that I wouldn't happily trade for a glamour log. Casual raids? Sure whatever. Hardcore raids? Don't care. Never add anything to the gold saucer again until it's done? Great. No more experimental content like potd, diadem, or aquapolis? Fantastic. No expansion again for the 4 years it takes us to unbork our backend? Fine with me.

Yoshi P give me the dang glamour log!

I can't express how much i love this post....

[Twinsoul]

Honestly, I don't care how difficult it is. It is the number 1 feature I want in this game. If WoW can eventually do it then so can FF14. If it takes them an expansion or 2 fine, but I want the answer to, "when are we getting a glamour log like every other modern mmo?"to be, "we're working on it, it's difficult, but please look forward to it!" and not some weird waffly nonsense about ahievements.

There is nothing they could cut from the game or their content pipeline that I wouldn't happily trade for a glamour log. Casual raids? Sure whatever. Hardcore raids? Don't care. Never add anything to the gold saucer again until it's done? Great. No more experimental content like potd, diadem, or aquapolis? Fantastic. No expansion again for the 4 years it takes us to unbork our backend? Fine with me.

Yoshi P give me the dang glamour log!

This post is beautiful. I adore it.