Glamour Dresser is Awful

[Vhailor]

I wouldn’t be surprised if SE ignores us at this point. No matter what they do to fix our problems we have with the game, people still find ways to complain.

As others have said, there's a difference between looking for faults in a game, and having glaringly obvious problems smack us in the face. The Glamour Dresser is a prime example of the latter.

The lesson they need to be taking away from this is that their shitty back-end architecture needs to be reworked, because it is holding FFXIV back in very noticeable ways. And who knows how much development time they're wasting figuring out hack-y ways to implement even the half-arsed systems we're being given? There's a good interview floating around about the new inventory view we've been 'gifted' (a view that is objectively inferior to the previous Expanded View), and apparently the existing storage architecture was behind the inability to give us six 5x5 inventory grids instead of 4 5x7 grids. Moreover, the previous view we had - of five and a fraction of the 5x5 grids - was due to a view wrapper utility that they built precisely for that purpose. That's wasted time right there, and I'm sure wasted time went into figuring out the best way around the storage architecture limitations.

This shit matters. It's occupying resources that would be better devoted to content generation, and it's limiting the content and systems they're able to build. The more they hear "server limitations aren't a viable excuse", the better off we'll be.