Quote Originally Posted by Snorky View Post
Personally I can't compare ESO with FF at all. If people would just expand their thinking a bit. There are all kinds of fantasy worlds created in a person's mind. I just watched the golden compass movie again. That is a totally different world but it's still fantasy.

This game is not a traditional fantasy so why would you try to make it that way. ESO is more traditional except all of the loud flaming store mounts they put out. But they know what sells and have raised prices accordingly. So I can't compare this game with ESO at all.

As far as glamour people do those to show off their taste and I feel weather you like them or not they should be visible to all. Chocobos are a creature in this game finding someone in a chocobos suit is not out of the realm of possibility.

Expand your fantasy mind this is not king Arthur and dragons. It's not table top dnd either. Exactly what you say in your last paragraph is how people must think of this then build their immersion around that.

1. Golden Compass is a great example; it's a "real world" setting with fantastical elements. That's how I see FF to be in a manner of speaking. There are different cultures based on different time periods and technology levels with the added fantastical elements of magic and ultra-high technology. It's exactly those elements that push XIV's world past the boundaries of Real World Earth into this crazy mish-mash of conflicting milieus that is our beloved Eorzea.

2. You're 100% right here, ESO and FF are two wildly divergent games/aesthetics, to the point where there's really no comparison between the two. The folks who make the Elder Scrolls titles do seem to try to maintain consistency of aesthetics/technology levels between the games and make a serious effort at creating a world that draws the player into in a way that XIV simply doesn't. Tamriel is much more realistic within its creative boundaries than Eorzea is within its own boundaries. I'd say both have equal verisimilitude but are not equally immersive.

3. I agree, the default setting should be that glamours are visible to everyone, as it is now. I don't think it would be a bad thing to have an official option of displaying all PCs in their racial starter gear or AF1 gear appropriate for the job they're on at the time though. I generally like to see other people in their glamours as it adds to my Isekai head cannon, but even then the 1000th Miquote in the Nier raid gear or Broegadyn in a subligar gets tiresome sometimes.

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