It's time (Option to Hide other players Glamour)

[Cithaerias_pyropina]

I doubt that is a concern that the development team have. The feature wouldn't be considered even remotely controversial to most people - especially with it being a client side option.

Some of the usual suspects are flocking to Twitter to complain about it, of course, though it's ultimately just hot air - and the game's been getting very positive press across the board given that the press opt to focus almost solely on reporting content rather than quality of life features.

Not that I doubt that some exceptions exist, given the habit of some 'journalists' stirring the pot to generate clicks and controversy but I doubt it'll amount to much at all in this case. Especially if the content of the game continues to be of a high, polished quality.

Negative press is more powerful than positive press.

[Theodric]

Negative press is more powerful than positive press.

Not necessarily - mostly for the reasons outlined by Lauront above. There's a growing push-back, thankfully, against those who seek to make mountains out of molehills. It's also often the case that many supposed 'issues' are not actually all that widespread or relevant outside of the social media sphere. I'd point to the situation related to the missing genders. I'm very much wanting to see male viera added to the game at some point in the future, provided they're designed well.

Yet as soon as it was announced that there would be no male viera or female hrothgar there was a lot of volatile outrage and attempts to smear the reputation of both the game itself and the development team.

It amounted to very little - since the game is doing better than ever before. Given how much more minor the outrage over the proposed toggle is I doubt very much that it would be factored in when deciding whether or not to do it.

[SamRF]

Negative press is more powerful than positive press.

Wouldn't that make negative press sometimes more appealing to companies than positive press? Isn't there a saying "all press is good press"? Or is this only applicable to politicians? In this case in particular I think that if there were powerful negative press with implementation of this option, there will also be a lot of discussion because people's opinion will for sure differ from it (as seen in this thread) --> even more publicity. Gaming journalists are far from being respected figures in gaming communities so I think it would be free publicity for FFXIV and draw in more players in the end.

Will end up with net positive even if some people leave the game because of this option (highly doubt there will be many).