Quote Originally Posted by Krotoan View Post
If not now, then when?
Test it for 2 years? Test it for 5 months? Waste all that time behind the scenes and then release it to the decidedly hostile to change userbase and FORCE them to use the new one because we've now dumped tens of thousands of development money into it and our director will murder us if this isn't a permanent part of the game?
Or release it along with the old system in place for people to still use and get valuable use,feedback, and data throughput information? Add a system to remove some clutter from a LOT of peoples inventory as well. Like it or not we as the players are a valuable resource for them to use as "testers" for a lot of things. Lord of verminion, if it had been actually popular, might have gotten so much bigger. But people HATED it and so it stopped. What if it they had just released a full content patch of JUST LoV? It's a bad idea to just drop a new system onto people and force them to use it.
That is a slippery slope fallacy. They were well aware what players wanted given its been a frequent request going back years; the ability to glamour jobs uniquely. Releasing a system that essentially functions the same, albeit without prisms, and restricting to ten slots insinuates they didn't listen to our feedback at all lest we wouldn't have this issue to between with. Lord of Verminion doesn't exactly compare since no one really asked for it nor content remotely equivalent. Regardless, it's one thing to release content with the explicit intent to have it tested live. The Glamour Dresser was never touted as a beta test but a wholly developed feature—one they never once mentioned would delete items or have such limitations prior. In fact, they were questioned immediately upon revealing said restrictions.

I wager player reception would be decidedly less hostile if they were candid and acknowledged this were still a work-in-progress. Granted, it doesn't help older games have managed better glamour systems than FFXIV.