Quote Originally Posted by Cach View Post
As I have said before, if you introduce a new crafted weapon set, but don't include the jobs that are active at the time, then it makes you look lazy and or cheap. No way around it.
Glowy crafted weapons tend to usually be just the existing weapons from a trial, with a glow added. So far as I've seen when looking at them, the new Titania EX crafted weapons are, model-wise, the same weapons that dropped from Titania EX when it was current, just with a glow.

So while I actually agree with you on this that it's not a great scenario, I will also admit there's a bit of me that can easily see a weapon set introduced now for previous content being approved based on "we're just adding glow to things" rather than "we're going to design a bunch of new weapons adhering to this aesthetic scheme".

Game production schedules are a weird beast, as is the content approval pipeline at many dev houses. Especially large dev houses, and especially if there's higher-priority things that bump it down the list. On this, I speak from (occasionally painful) personal experience.

And designing a glow ("this is the particle effect we're using and this lighting effect") is just one thing to be approved and added more quickly, versus adding entire new weapons; the latter involves an artist to design them and a modeler to actually make the models/textures, not just the programmer writing the particle effect system. If your artists are already being kept busy designing something else -- and even at a big dev house, that's possible -- then the first one (just adding glow to existing models) is a much easier sell for something to bundle into the next patch cycle.

It doesn't change the appearance of the set being released now missing weapons for jobs that now exist, mind you, which is not great. Nor does it mean people can't be annoyed by it; I actually am, since I'm currently maining SGE in raid and am thus extremely aware of the lack of shiny weapon options.

But believe me, I can understand why it would happen.