Quote Originally Posted by frostmagemari View Post
And instead of actually going back and recreating a better system, they simply band-aid and compound a currently clunky system that's only future is to break under its own weight or simply become an untenable system for those customers that they attempt to design it for.
You do know that the WoW system didn't start out as something that the game was designed to do, right? The game didn't even launch with the ability to transmog items and wasn't put into the game until midway through cataclysm, and in legion was it further expanded. The system was something that Blizzard had to find a way to make work (it started out as something similar to the prism system, only it was done by an NPC), and they put in the time to get the system working and kept working on it to make it better(the creation of the appearance tab that logged your outfit looks); not just putting on band-aid fixes to put off the eventual collapse of the system another expansion.
Why is this such an unreasonable request of the XIV team? I don't think it is; but it's becoming an increasingly prevalent theme for someone to convey that something is simply "too hard" or "would take time to do" and therefore it shouldn't even be considered to be done.

Are you and the rest of the playerbase willing to wait and postpone all other content until they finish and implement the new system? Considering how core and interconnected inventory and glamour seem to be pretty much everything else will need to be stopped/scrapped until the new system is done and running or at least finalized.

This is likely what the biggest block to "going back and recreating a better system" is. They don't and wont have increased resources, their parent company has shown very often they have a set amount they want to invest in the FFXIV devs, so since they are limited they will need to divert all resources capable to the project, and there's no point in implementing anything new till its finished since all items will have to be compliant and compatible with the new system.



I agree the only true fix is a rework from the ground up, but I don't see the company doing that as they would lose so many subscribers until it was finished and even then it's harder to win people back than to just keep them hooked with small fixes.