Recent Q&A about glamour log...

[TheMightyMollusk]

I don't understand how WoW did it 20 years ago

Five years. The wardrobe feature was added in the pre-patch for the Legion expansion. (Also, WoW's not quite 20 years old yet.)

[hobostew]

Five years. The wardrobe feature was added in the pre-patch for the Legion expansion. (Also, WoW's not quite 20 years old yet.)

Took them a while to cobble it together, no? I always assumed the mount collection tab was a precursor to the transmog tab and that was added a fair bit before I think.

Personally I'm pretty disappointed with that response but I'm also glad someone finally asked it and that we got a clear answer. I think I'm just gonna stop collecting anything class locked and throw away anything I'm not super attached to so I can dial back the number of retainers I currently have.

[TeraRamis]

Took them a while to cobble it together, no.

Yes, and the glamour dresser has been around quite a while now, too. And I'm not trying to be snide - I'm rather saying: they've had (multiple) years now to anticipate that this could become a major problem, and now we are at that juncture, and the answer cannot be "nope, sorry, we can't."

Maybe they can't within the context of the current system, but that's when you tear down that system and build a new one. You can't continue to sell this game so heavily around paperdollism (and expect people to bolster profits by buying expensive outfits on the Mogstation) if your hardware cannot accommodate that playstyle. I mean, glamour is what FFXIV is for a lot of us.

[TaleraRistain]

Maybe they can't within the context of the current system, but that's when you tear down that system and build a new one. You can't continue to sell this game so heavily around paperdollism (and expect people to bolster profits by buying expensive outfits on the Mogstation) if your hardware cannot accommodate that playstyle. I mean, glamour is what FFXIV is for a lot of us.

Migrating software systems is not just a wham, bam, thank you ma'am type of task. I can tell you've never done anything with databases or software engineering, and especially never had to deal with years of spaghetti code. Doing what you're acting like should be an easy task is not fast and is not cheap if you want to make sure you aren't massively breaking things in the process.

[SniperCT]

if you want to make sure you aren't massively breaking things in the process.

This is I think the key thing a lot of people aren't realizing. It's not just that it's work, it's also work that could actually break the game if there's a goof up. We're talking deleted items and characters type stuff.