What was the design reason behind the Rathalos Armor Set?

[Selvokaz]

I'm curious, as a person who played MH many years ago on the PSP (freedom unite 2 I think), I have some fond memories of hunt grinding Rathalos just to make that long sword and armor set. So I was stoked about the cross-over but even before it's launch when I saw the armor design for the FF14 Rathalos inspired armor set, well you could guess my disappointment. I'm not going to point out what MHW got, as that doesn't really help matters much, but are they maybe at least planning on a future update to I don't know change the armor sets appearance into that of the actual Rathalos armor?
Maybe the lead costume designer was on summer vacation and couldn't be reached to do it? I'd just like some insight into the design choice for a reskin/recolor of a existing armor set. Did Square lose a bit with Capcom or something?

[Vaer]

As for the rewards, we considered simply reproducing the Rathalos gear from the Monster Hunter series; however, we challenged ourselves to design the gear to match how the crafters of Hydaelyn would have, if they used the same materials. We also had Fujioka supervise our design. There are also undyeable and dyeable versions of the gear.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post4731969 has some extra stuff about how they went about making the collab.

[Aurturia]

I was really hoping for something more savage like most of the gear in monster hunter. I can see some of the rathalos inspiration but at the same time it looks similar to a lot of the other gear already in game, or at least not different enough.

[Canadane]

I was really hoping for something more savage like most of the gear in monster hunter. I can see some of the rathalos inspiration but at the same time it looks similar to a lot of the other gear already in game, or at least not different enough.

Sounds like the designers achieved their goal.

[Wyssahtyn]

As for the rewards, we considered simply reproducing the Rathalos gear from the Monster Hunter series; however, we challenged ourselves to design the gear to match how the crafters of Hydaelyn would have, if they used the same materials. We also had Fujioka supervise our design. There are also undyeable and dyeable versions of the gear.

I guess crafters on Hydaelyn can't be bothered to make armor that actually looks protective.

[Selvokaz]

I guess crafters on Hydaelyn can't be bothered to make armor that actually looks protective.

Final Fashion statement is the true Fantasy of this world.

[Marxam]

I guess crafters on Hydaelyn can't be bothered to make armor that actually looks protective.

I guess that explains the belly hole in the female drg ARR relic set. Still a shame that they didn't just put the Rathalos armor in. Sometimes the obvious answer isn't so obvious.

[Elkanah]

I guess crafters on Hydaelyn can't be bothered to make armor that actually looks protective.

It shows how weak the craftsmanship guilds are when it comes to building armor, similar to monster hunter, where it's meant to be intimidating for the most part, outside of a few select sets here and there.

Meanwhile, Monster hunter world gets Estinien Armor, essentially ALL FFXIV related and not a "here's a somewhat idea of FFXIV armor that could be in game". It's Estinien's Dragoon armor in full. And a Wyvern. Most XI players are loling.

[Knahli]

Edit:
My original post below was a bit inaccurate as Endeavor rightly pointed out!

Actually, breakable parts were planned from the start but they couldn't get approval under the Teen rating. They either needed to severely tone it down or have a M rating for one piece of content.

Original Post:

Not a big fan of most Monster Hunter sets myself but I admit I was a little underwhelmed with their interpretation of it, especially since they had tried to get breakable parts into the game but didn't have the time to - and considering the effort the MHW team had to put in on their side - a little part of me wondered if the effort was mutual. Perhaps my ignorance about all that's involved is making me unfair though.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Not a big fan of most Monster Hunter sets myself but I admit I was a little underwhelmed with their interpretation of it, especially since they had tried to get breakable parts into the game but didn't have the time to - and considering the effort the MHW team had to put in on their side - a little part of me wondered if the effort was mutual. Perhaps my ignorance about all that's involved is making me unfair though.

Actually, breakable parts were planned from the start but they couldn't get approval under the Teen rating. They either needed to severely tone it down or have a M rating for one piece of content.