Glamour Dresser is Awful

[Krotoan]

While it was a step in the right direction it really missed the mark. I don't agree with the developer's concerns about making the system 'part of the game' so to speak. Why does it have to be a dresser? Why does it have to be a physical object in the inn rooms? Why is changing the dresser's inventory only possible from there? Why are glamour plates only changeable (currently) in towns and residential areas? I really was hoping we would do something along the line of WoW, Rift or GW2 in terms of fashion. Theres no shame in taking good aspects of good systems. Not everything has to be unique. Accessibility should be on the forefront of glamour changes along with inventory space in mind. Its frustrating always hearing "The servers can't handle it" for any change in the game.

It has to be a dresser because they designed it to only be editable within a small instance like a house interior, likely because of bandwidth concerns(™). To provide access to every single player equally this was added to the inn which was available to every single person who plays the game.
I don't think it HAS to be a physical item, but considering every other option available in the house has a physical node to initiate that act, it just fits the theme. I'm at a loss as to why this is a problem.
As I mentioned before, likely the restriction to editing only in small instances is bandwidth concerns. While you're in a home instance, there's no concerns of combat or loading excessive amounts of other players information so more bandwith can be guaranteed and available.
Glamour plates being available only in towns actually has been stated to be for bandwidth concerns.

It would be awesome to have GW2s appearance system, agreed. I personally don't think this particular decision resulted from pride though, likely more from how to make a system that works with what the rest of the game is built on. An account wide log of appearances and dyes is wildly different than the catalyst based glamour system we have and would require a rework of foundation systems.

We did get inventory space freeing options though, just people are balking because of the limited access and capacity. But it is added capacity.

It's INCREDIBLY frustrating to hear the same reason over and over again, but I'd rather be told the reasons then left in the dark. I can imagine for someone working on this game that working around restrictions is as frustrating as you hearing about them.