Quote Originally Posted by Aniya_Estlihn View Post
You know, I had a big reply written out, but I deleted it—because as much as I feel the idea of robbing someone of their individuality, forcing them to wear a helmet, or curating the world to your own selfish, petty desires is morally wrong and the height of bigotry and intolerance...

The simple answer is no, it'll never happen, and while people have raised really good points as to why its a bad or good idea; on both sides, I'll give you the real reasons...

1.) Too costly and would require too much time to develop a system to instantaneously hide a person's glamour, place a helmet on their head and adjust it for you client side; as all of this is sent to the server and they've already said they can't do anything extra to character appearance because the data is too bloated as is.

Considering the fact they won't separate horns from the faces of Au Ra among other things—it's just not going to happen because those things are minuscule compared to what is being asked for here.

2.) Mogstation exists, it is a cash shop, it sells non-restricted, freely glamourable items that appear and can be used in game.

I hate to break it to people (I actually don't), but the best form of advertising for a cash shop of any kind is for your players to purchase said items and to wear them. Giving you this option would remove one of Square Enix's main avenues of marketing and advertising Mogstation cosmetics to you and for that reason alone this will never happen.

Not to mention the amount websites, opinion pieces and bad press the game would get for including a button that would quite literally be called a "bigotry" button in news articles related to it. It's not a good idea from a development or financial angle nor would it give them any positive publicity as a result.

People need to stop asking, lighten up and just enjoy the game as it is, not as it could be or as you perceive it should be. They have their vision for the game, everything fits into that and if it didn't, we wouldn't get it. It would do people well to learn to respect that.
1. This should rarely be an excuse if a large portion of players desire something within reason to SE
2. I might be in the minority here, but everything I purchased from the Mogstation was because I wanted my character to have it. I could care less what others thought of my mounts, glamours, etc. You would still have the option of wearing those glamours... the OP isn't advocating to remove them.