Quote Originally Posted by Justuas View Post
In XIV pretty much everyone wears the same gear because the gear system is so simple-minded. That's not the case in XI which I like.
Only time I see people walking around in the same gear, is when something new is released in the cash shop. Seriously I don't know where this comes from. I'm not sure how XI is now, but when I played it you had very specific sets of gear and little to chose from. The glamour system did not exist, and many endgame items could be acquired before actually getting there because of the way that system worked. Again, I don't know how it works now, but as I remember it, it was vastly inferior to XIV as far as choices and diversity amongst players go.

If you're griping because you see 3-4 peeps with the same body piece you just acquired, I can understand how that might pluck a nose hair. But that doesn't have to do with the system being simple-minded, it has to do with 3-4 peeps liking the same body piece you do. They will still very likely glam the other pieces of their gear differently than you, and thus they are not a mirror copy of your avatar.