FFXI's gear swap was like having extra skills.

[Montijin]

God forbid we have something to do in this game by collecting more gear.

This community's silly lack of reasoning and general laziness/anti-anything difficult is what will drive this game into the ground.

They've already made the game's gear system next to worthless with the silly attribute system in place.

As much as I want this game to succeed, they have given the community too much input into the direction of the game. The majority of the community who cries to the developers are casual players who want everything stream lined to them by only playing 5 hours a week. Not that there is anything wrong with advancing your character by playing a couple hours a week; but where does that leave players who want to play their job/class to it's potential?

The current materia system even in theory is an awful system of endgame gear. Does anyone actually like the idea of progressing your class by blowing up gil at incredibly low success rates? The current system in place pretty much makes this game "Farm Gil for Gear XIV".

At the end of the day gear swapping is pointless right now anyways until/if they fix or scale stats.