Quote Originally Posted by myahele View Post
He's mostly worried that it will confuse new players to see things like mages wearing heavy armor, but he's at least open to lifting some restrictions.

Q: Can you ease up on the class and job restrictions for glamours to expand their use further?
A: We’re gradually easing restrictions, but since FFXIV’s setting strives to be a real fantasy role-playing game, there is a possibility that players who are new will become confused, so we’d like to maintain certain rules for glamours such that you cannot be a mage that is wearing heavy armor.
I’m not saying that this rule will still hold true 10 years down the road, but currently the upcoming expansion will have a dark fantasy setting and we’d like to preserve that aspect of the lore.
However, we received a lot of feedback asking to make it possible for males to wear skirts to expand the use of glamours.
The game is being development by a large amount of people, and if we don’t have easy to understand rules in place things will likely become a mess, so I’ve given the order to separate glamours for role and class, but if there are a large volume of requests for something in particular, there is a fair chance it will be addressed. We’d like to expand the ways you can glamour yourselves bit by bit.

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...801-08-2015%29
I can understand his concerns to an extent. Especially in a game where any and every character can be any job, having no holds barred with glamour would really muddy things up.
On the other hand, there are many other things a new player might be confused by that deserve dev attention more than how well randos look like they're sticking a role identity.