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

[Kohl]

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Several comments throughout this thread have been more in favor of a discrete option to discriminate glamours rather than one that simply deactivated the glamour feature client side. That is what I was addressing, and the OP is a heavy user of the glamour system, so it is not unreasonable to read that it is implicit in the OP's remarks that they mean to have the ability to individually censor glamours.

There isn't a reason to implement this filter that stands up to logic and scrutiny. No one can tell me why they want it other than because they are offended; which is just a feeling.

Implementing such a feature is contrary to the direction developers want to go, as is implicit in by Yoshi's remarks while talking about removal if gender restrictions on gear, quoted here:

"... I was heading to the office on a Saturday and I saw a situation that made me very sad. I was trying to go into the office and I was waiting at a red light. I saw a high schooler coming from the other side of the road in their school uniform. It seemed that they were biologically male at birth but they were wearing a sailor fuku, which is traditionally female attire. In Japanese high schools, there’s more and more schools that are accommodating for freedom of not being restricted to a specific gender for your uniform...That person probably wanted to present the gender they identified with in their heart...On the other side of the road was a mother and a daughter. The daughter was perhaps 5 years old. As soon as the mother saw the high schooler, she shielded her daughter as if she didn’t want her daughter to see. The high schooler must have been very hurt. Situations like these still happen and there’s areas where there’s not as much understanding.

We need to see more change in the values people have, and we need to consider for Final Fantasy XIV how we push forward in-game and how we represent it."
-Naoki Yoshida (interviewed by Heather Alexandra)

Some of these arguments are like those Magic Eye posters from the 90's... hard to see at first, but once they are in focus you can't unsee them.

[Ivellior]

Several comments throughout this thread have been more in favor of a discrete option to discriminate glamours rather than one that simply deactivated the glamour feature client side. That is what I was addressing, and the OP is a heavy user of the glamour system, so it is not unreasonable to read that it is implicit in the OP's remarks that they mean to have the ability to individually censor glamours.

Only a tiny minority of the posters asked for a person-specific glamour blacklist feature. The feature request is for a toggle to turn off all glamours. That is specifically what the OP asked, which is a perfectly reasonable request. Changing the OP (and the features request) because of a tiny minority of posters is disingenuous.

There isn't a reason to implement this filter that stands up to logic and scrutiny. No one can tell me why they want it other than because they are offended; which is just a feeling.

If you are talking about a character-specific glamour blacklist, this argument makes sense, but it's not necessarily true. I really annoys me to see people in metalic dyed frog suits when doing instanced content. I find it grating and distracting enough to want to turn off all glamours. If that means I'm offended I'll just take it as such.

And even if they do add a character-specific glamour blacklist feature (which, again, is not what the people are asking), I still personally believe that you overly sensitive on the matter. It's just a tool/feature to make the player's experience better just like the black list feature. I can totally understand how annoying someone would feel be when he reached the fight with hades (at the epic climax of the story) and is greeted by a tank wearing a metallic yellow frog suit.

If you feel that a tool is bad because it might be potientially used for an "evil" reason, then you might as well eat with your hands since knives can be used to kill people.

Implementing such a feature is contrary to the direction developers want to go, as is implicit in by Yoshi's remarks while talking about removal if gender restrictions on gear, quoted here:

"... I was heading to the office on a Saturday and I saw a situation that made me very sad. I was trying to go into the office and I was waiting at a red light. I saw a high schooler coming from the other side of the road in their school uniform. It seemed that they were biologically male at birth but they were wearing a sailor fuku, which is traditionally female attire. In Japanese high schools, there’s more and more schools that are accommodating for freedom of not being restricted to a specific gender for your uniform...That person probably wanted to present the gender they identified with in their heart...On the other side of the road was a mother and a daughter. The daughter was perhaps 5 years old. As soon as the mother saw the high schooler, she shielded her daughter as if she didn’t want her daughter to see. The high schooler must have been very hurt. Situations like these still happen and there’s areas where there’s not as much understanding.

We need to see more change in the values people have, and we need to consider for Final Fantasy XIV how we push forward in-game and how we represent it."
-Naoki Yoshida (interviewed by Heather Alexandra)

1. Heather Alexandra is from kokatu, a site that is widely known for lying and changing stories/interviews to match their political bias. Please provide the original japanese interview text.
2. If that was the dev vision those items wouldn't have been gender locked in the first place.