It's time (Option to Hide other players Glamour)

[ZephyrMenodora]

Yet you've been one of the biggest opponents of this feature being implemented. A feature that only affects what is on a person's own PC in private. Does not compute.

Except it wouldn't have to be private anymore. They could freely post photos on the official forums of my character forced into different outfits than what I would ever have them wear, talk to me in game how they forced my character to look, and it would be supported. That's the difference between mods and in-game options that the dev's approved of.

One is easy to ignore since it will never affect me. The other isn't and contrary to what an MMO even is when it comes to official in-game options.

And speaking of anomalous player psychology: are we just going to overlook those who feel like they must be seen by everyone otherwise they can't enjoy the game?

MMOs have always been about seeing other players online as they decided to create and dress their characters. Stop trying to pretend it's normal in MMOs to control how characters not played by YOU should be forced to appear. The moment players lose control over their own characters is the day you see a lot of players quit that MMO. It's why no MMO does this and never will. And don't bring up GW2 again, it's by no means a glamor setting. Putting characters into "lowest quality character models" is about performance for computers that aren't supposed by FFXIV at all and never will be. I'm really tired of repeating myself when someone tries to lie and pretend GW2 has this option already.

Given I still believe an option like this will never exist, I have no idea why I keep coming back to this thread.

Well, I'll start by saying even in this thread alone I have seen a large number of people opposed to this idea says things along the lines of "this is an MMO, if you can't deal with the social aspect of glamours, play a single player game" which is the same as "conform of leave", just worded differently. I believe you have also used "this is an MMO" as a reason why this feature shouldn't exist.

Yes it is, and it's how it should be. You either want to choose to play the product offered (an MMO) with all the things that comes with as far as how that genre works, or you can leave. *shrug* Not seeing the issue here nor do I view this as a bad thing. I see in the last few pages some whackos even stooped to the level of asking for all other players to be removed entirely. In an MMO. Clearly some people have very poor understanding of the genre they are in. I don't think a SOCIAL genre should cater to the very off-genre demands of people with antisocial tendencies and personality disorders.