Glam Dresser is inadequate, even doubling it does not solve the problem.

[HolyReign]

That is literally what the glamour dresser is designed to accomplish. As a player there is no reason to come up with dumb excuses for an inferior product.

Dumb excuses?

Me suggesting that players should put more thought into what to glam and what not to, is a, "Dumb excuse."?

Seems to be, some people have a hoarding mentality and need to make some decisions on what they really need to keep.

[Johners]

Dumb excuses?

Me suggesting that players should put more thought into what to glam and what not to, is a, "Dumb excuse."?

Seems to be, some people have a hoarding mentality and need to make some decisions on what they really need to keep.

Collecting glamours isn't hoarding, it's content that some players enjoy. Why have a system in place punishes people who want to collect?

[MilkieTea]

I mean yea, filtering by what you have unlocked should obviously be a thing.

That's uh... not what I said but sure.

[HolyReign]

Collecting glamours isn't hoarding, it's content that some players enjoy. Why have a system in place punishes people who want to collect?

The Glam Dresser, is not a, "Collections." tool. It's used so that the player can put together aesthetic creations, to improve the way their character looks.

I believe, that SE giving people 800 slots, is very generous, and most likely a player isn't going to have more than several, "Looks." for their character, anyways.

[Saraide]

The Glam Dresser, is not a, "Collections." tool. It's used so that the player can put together aesthetic creations, to improve the way their character looks.

I believe, that SE giving people 800 slots, is very generous, and most likely a player isn't going to have more than several, "Looks." for their character, anyways.

They are fighting against massive technical debt because the server structure is the rotting corpse of ff11. Throwing bandaids on problems isnt generousity, it's just trying to ignore the problem. They need to rework their server structure to not suck.

[Vrankyl]

While I agree that there needs to be some updates to the glamour system, pointing at the Transmog system in WoW and saying just copy that as if it is a simple copy and paste is rather over the top. First off, coding an entirely new system into an already established live product is no small task and would need a lot of dedicated work applied to that. As it currently stands it appears that the FF14 team is not large enough to divert the necessary resources for something like that without sacrificing something else. Now if they managed to increase the system design team to be large enough to handle this without sacrificing other content then great. This isn't even to mention that there are problems alone with the WoW system that just straight up wouldn't work in FF14. First off. WoW gear doesn't dye. That is a whole separate level of detail that needs to be accounted for. Additionally, the only gear that gets saved is the armor that is used by your class. Paladins can only collect plate, mages can only collect cloth. For FF14 it would need to store EVERYTHING for a single character. A better system to emulate would by the system from ESO, though that in itself has its own limitations but it would likely prove to be far easier to implement for FF14 than the WoW transmog.

[Johners]

They are fighting against massive technical debt because the server structure is the rotting corpse of ff11. Throwing bandaids on problems isnt generousity, it's just trying to ignore the problem. They need to rework their server structure to not suck.

It definitely seems like Square Enix are either reluctant or simply lack the expertise to actually fix of the underlying technical issues in this game and would rather band-aid them. It's a shame given how good the creative direction and core game design of the game actually is in comparison to other MMOs (which are either newer or simply fixed their technical debt).

[HolyReign]

They are fighting against massive technical debt because the server structure is the rotting corpse of ff11. Throwing bandaids on problems isnt generousity, it's just trying to ignore the problem. They need to rework their server structure to not suck.

So they're doubling the current Glam Dresser compacity, in an effort to place Band-Aids on a rotting corpse of a server structure?

How does this even make sense? The only time I've ever had problems, is when Endwalker launched, and there where severe problems with getting on for a while. Since then, everything has been fine, and I've ran through content, easily.

[Johners]

While I agree that there needs to be some updates to the glamour system, pointing at the Transmog system in WoW and saying just copy that as if it is a simple copy and paste is rather over the top. First off, coding an entirely new system into an already established live product is no small task and would need a lot of dedicated work applied to that. As it currently stands it appears that the FF14 team is not large enough to divert the necessary resources for something like that without sacrificing something else. Now if they managed to increase the system design team to be large enough to handle this without sacrificing other content then great. This isn't even to mention that there are problems alone with the WoW system that just straight up wouldn't work in FF14. First off. WoW gear doesn't dye. That is a whole separate level of detail that needs to be accounted for. Additionally, the only gear that gets saved is the armor that is used by your class. Paladins can only collect plate, mages can only collect cloth. For FF14 it would need to store EVERYTHING for a single character. A better system to emulate would by the system from ESO, though that in itself has its own limitations but it would likely prove to be far easier to implement for FF14 than the WoW transmog.

I'm not saying copy the method of appearance acquisition but the way in which it's stored, a central appearance catalogue, is generally a good approach. Having everything be account wide, regardless of the character you play, would be ideal but even having a character wide appearance catalogue is a great starting point.

Also, Final Fantasy XIV is one of Square Enix's most successful games ever and generates an absolute boatload of profit for them. There's fundamentally no excuse, beyond seeing the game as a soulless cash cow and nothing else, for them not putting the money back into growing the development team. There's several areas upon which old technical solutions dominate the game design (marketboard and retainer systems could also do with some nice reworks IMHO) but would require a larger technical investment to resolve. Even the core server infrastructure is pretty ass overall and was moments away from dying entirely in the early days of Endwalker.

We had one live letter a few months back regarding the next decade of Final Fantasy XIV which mostly focused on a graphics overall and how the patch cycle would play out (4 months instead of 3.5 months as the TLDR). What would be nice is a better roadmap for what features they're looking to implement or improve in the coming expansions. New home worlds and data centres are coming, for example, but that's just throwing more hardware at the problem of the servers not being to cope with the number of players without drastically changing the way in which the game works.

[Alleo]

I agree with you OP. I am bascially at the limit and I dont even put a lot of shoes or trousers in there. Or many weapons. If we had a unlimited glamour dresser than I would be motivated to farm all the old dungeon stuff just to have it in there.

SE should really improve that system.