About the looks of the new raid gear

[Hakuro89]

I can't help but wonder if SE is going to say or comment on anything regarding the enormous amount of backlash on these gear sets.
I mean, I'm not expecting them to just yank the designs and swap in something else but they usually say something in conferences and the like when something has enough negative feedback. My hope is they will and use that for incentive to design something more fitting for the next two tiers of the raid.

[Shippuu]

I can't help but wonder if SE is going to say or comment on anything regarding the enormous amount of backlash on these gear sets.
I mean, I'm not expecting them to just yank the designs and swap in something else but they usually say something in conferences and the like when something has enough negative feedback. My hope is they will and use that for incentive to design something more fitting for the next two tiers of the raid.

You're nuts if you think this is A) "Enormous backlash" (It's not), and B) That this is something they'd ever consider even commenting on.

This is just people acting like babies whining.

[Verius_Nox]

This is just people acting like babies whining.

People expressing their dislike of the new style = "acting like babies whining"

Nice.

[Hakuro89]

This is just people acting like babies whining.

People like you are why these forums have such a toxic reputation.

[DreadRabbit]

Shippuu has a point though: these forums have never once represented the majority of the community, and they certainly don't now. That being said, there's no reason for anyone to be hostile with each other.

On topic: while I agree they're not my personal taste, I actually applaud SE for trying some traditional Japanese designs for gear in this game. Haven't read through everything so I apologize if it's been said already, but it's rare to see stuff inspired by the Sengoku period/feudal era Japan in games these days (games usually go full-on Edo or Meiji era if they do traditional inspired gear). The healer hat is reminiscent of the garb strategists and court members would wear (if I remember correctly). That being said they could have done better with the color combinations. The defaults look dull.

Then again I haven't really liked any of the raid gear in this game. It's either way too busy or way too dull. I honestly prefer leveling gear or crafting sets.

[Shippuu]

People expressing their dislike of the new style = "acting like babies whining"

Nice.

I calls'em like I sees'em.

People grossly exaggerating because a set of armor isn't to their particular taste, some going so far as expecting SE to comment/apologize or change the gear. Especially on a set of gear that Yoshida has expressed the dev team and himself spent a lot of time on focusing on accuracy since it's culturally important to them.

Yeah, that's a pretty extreme reaction for what's one set out of dozens upon dozens in this game that cover a huge variety of cultures, styles, and themes. Disrespect often gets met with disrespect.

[Kling-Klang]

I calls'em like I sees'em.

People grossly exaggerating because a set of armor isn't to their particular taste, some going so far as expecting SE to comment/apologize or change the gear. Especially on a set of gear that Yoshida has expressed the dev team and himself spent a lot of time on focusing on accuracy since it's culturally important to them.

Yeah, that's a pretty extreme reaction for what's one set out of dozens upon dozens in this game that cover a huge variety of cultures, styles, and themes. Disrespect often gets met with disrespect.

Its not about the sets being japanese looking, its about not fitting the freaking theme of the RAID. The raid where partly the motivation of farming it is the gear.
The sets would fit very well into a dungeon in this expansion, or hell even tome gear.
Why the hell are you making this a cultural problem when it is about not fitting a theme?

[Shippuu]

Its not about the sets being japanese looking, its about not fitting the freaking theme of the RAID. The raid where partly the motivation of farming it is the gear.
The sets would fit very well into a dungeon in this expansion, or hell even tome gear.
Why the hell are you making this a cultural problem when it is about not fitting a theme?

Again, there's no rule that the sets have to visually match the raid, and that's been the case since 2.0 came out with plenty of raid sets not thematically matching.

You're trying to inject some bogus rule that the sets have to match the "theme" of the raid and it's bull. On top of that, we've already established that they DO match the theme of the raid, being a tribute to Final Fantasy V/FF games in general. Just because they don't match the theme you want doesn't mean they don't match a theme.

Ultimately the devs get to decide because it's their game.

[Kling-Klang]

I am not setting rules, I am giving my opinion. (All raids so far matched their theme very well, which is the reason I am surprised about Omega gear.)
Well anyway. I wont try to have a discussion with you. Its no use. I am out of this thread.

[Shippuu]

I am not setting rules, I am giving my opinion.

You are arbitrarily dictating that A) Raid gear must match the "theme" and B) Deltascape gear somehow doesn't match it's "theme".

The "theme" of the Deltascape raid is a love letter to FF5. The bosses have nothing in common with each other, same as the zones, except that they were all in FF5. The strongest armor in FF5 was the Genji equipment.

So what would you have the armor look like? We didn't fight Omega at all in the raid turns, so it absolutely shouldn't look like some scifi tech omega gear. So then what? hmm?

(All raids so far matched their theme very well, which is the reason I am surprised about Omega gear.)

Really? So how did these


Match Labyrinth of the Ancients again?

Oh that's right, they matched in exactly the same way the current gear matches Deltascape.