Are the developers of XIV out of touch?

[Vickii]

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With respect I can honestly say that none of the things you just mentioned concern me at all.

What you are doing IS asking over and over again until you get your own way and I think if you think about it, you’ll see that.

Truthfully me and many others tire of the whiny character option/Ishgard housing questions.

I’d much rather they spent this time discussing classes and content like most mmo devs instead of keep getting asked weird costume questions by weeabos.

You keep saying we like you speak for the community, and you don’t speak for me and many others like it or not.

[Vhailor]

I’d much rather they spent this time discussing classes and content like most mmo devs instead of keep getting asked weird costume questions by weeabos.

You keep saying we like you speak for the community, and you don’t speak for me and many others like it or not.

100% agree. A significant portion of FFXIV's primary 'content', the carrots at the end of many of the sticks, are entirely superficial fluff. That stuff needs to be in the game, but XIV focuses on it to such an extent, it more closely resembles a F2P mobile app than it does a supposedly-premium MMO. We need more content, that's designed to last longer, and is infused with more creativity and challenge. It shouldn't be possible to make half-serious jokes about Glamour being the real end-game.

Edit: This is particularly relevant in light of the fact that FFXIV is not well-designed for Glamour. The character options are average at best; the texture resolution is shit; SE's back-end code is incapable of supporting a proper Glamour log; the graphics engine features some of the worst character model clipping I've seen in years. Can we please stop asking SE to focus their attention on fluff content that the game clearly cannot execute all that well? It's like whining for better AoE indicators for players who prefer playing in first-person mode.

[Remedi]

SE's back-end code is incapable of supporting a proper Glamour log;

TBH atm we are at the void storage stage of wow, I think if they manage to snag one of the ppl that worked on the diablo 3 trasmog they might fix it (they were the ones that made the glamour log possible in wow).

Technically speaking it would be giving you access to the storage from anywhere

[Vhailor]

TBH atm we are at the void storage stage of wow, I think if they manage to snag one of the ppl that worked on the diablo 3 trasmog they might fix it (they were the ones that made the glamour log possible in wow).

Technically speaking it would be giving you access to the storage from anywhere

That could potentially alleviate the Glamour log issue, but there are still the other problems I mentioned. The clipping one, for instance, is huge. Do I want to wear a big hat? Well, I'd best be fine with hiding my displayed weapon, because it's going to clip. Do I want to wear a skirt? Well... there really aren't any good options for that unless I want to pretend like my character always has her hands in a pair of nonexistent pockets. The texture resolution is also an issue: as soon as I zoom in much, it just looks like ass relative to modern titles. It's interesting that you mentioned D3, because while D3's transmog system is effortless to use, the items themselves look like crap if you zoom in on your character or are looking them over. This isn't an issue for D3, since transmog is very much an additional 'why not' feature, but in FFXIV, when Glamouring is positioned as a significant objective for players, I think we'd just swap usability complaints for different ones (we need high resolution textures; we need to address clipping; why don't we have equal outfit opportunities across genders and races; can we have a butt slider; etc.).

As a result, I really think that SE should stop positioning Glamours as being such a large part of the game. Stop advertising them in patches. Stop charging so much money for them on the cash shop. Stop locking key ingredients behind content walls on par with, or surpassing, the best available crafted combat gear. Then, refocus all that effort on building the high-quality, durable content that XIV is so sorely lacking. With a bit of luck, this will mask a lot of the game's issues, because XIV's engine is fine for delivering battle content, at reasonable scales, in tremendously immersive maps. It's terrible at Glamours. Why focus so much effort and attention on an area of the game that exposes all the shortcomings of the engine and back-end?