Recent Q&A about glamour log...

[Vahlnir]

Ummm... WoW wasn't even a game 20 years ago. Perhaps you meant 10 years ago? They basically rewrote the entire game code at the time, blew up all the level 1-60 areas in a worldwide disaster and lost what many considered the essence of WoW (which is why the 'classic' servers are so popular).

My thoughts about "this should be easy" -- Blizzard did not actually tell us how much time and effort went into their coding effort, nor has Square Enix has ever given us a look at the code for the glamour system.

You might think it's as simple as maintaining a bitmap, but you have no idea how it was done, nor how much time and effort it would take to make it into something similar to the transmog system in WoW.

Yeah. It's obvious that Yoshi P would like to do it, and feels bad about not being able to, but he simply can't due to unknown limitations. Maybe they will one day if/when they figure it out, but I'm not going to count on it.

[Arrius]

Yeah. It's obvious that Yoshi P would like to do it, and feels bad about not being able to, but he simply can't due to unknown limitations. Maybe they will one day if/when they figure it out, but I'm not going to count on it.

Exactly.
And that they had to remove the belt slot so they could utilize the free armory space to reallocate them for the new weapon/ring/job crystal slots shows already that they are pushing it with their existing tech.

They need to untangle this from the ground up, but which MMO has the time and resources for that?

[TeraRamis]

They need to untangle this from the ground up, but which MMO has the time and resources for that?

The one that's experienced a sudden windfall from thousands of unexpected subs falling from the skies as WoW implodes?

The time is now.

[Puremallace]

The one that's experienced a sudden windfall from thousands of unexpected subs falling from the skies as WoW implodes?

The time is now.

My current theory is that if FF14 wants to grow further then the base systems need to improve dramatically to keep from looking so dated. Yoshi P has obviously got to realize this but I think he downplays the seriousness of the issue of adding yet another expansion on top of very limited systems.