Just like FFXI, make all Artifact armor wearable by all classes

[ty_taurus]

My "weak and unreasonable argument" is what the Dev's implemented and stood by for a decade.

These armors are often homages to past Final Fantasy games and characters of those exact classes. Class unique gear is something many players enjoy. There isn't even that much of it in FFXIV, and it's not like the game lacks for other options to wear.

So why not free up all options all together. The entire moonward set is an homage to FFIV, offering equipment options for Cecil, Kain, Rydia, Edge, and Edward, but a DNC can wear Edward's armor, a WHM can wear Rydia's armor (in white), and a WAR can wear Cecil's armor. Cloud, Squall, Zidane, Firion, Tidus, Yuna, Lightning, Snow, Noctis, and even the FF1 Warrior of Light's armor is wearable by every job. Vaan, Balthier, Penelo, Basch, and Larsa's armor is wearable by multiple jobs as well. Fran's can be worn by any job as long as you're a female Viera.

There's no reason to continue holding old artifact gear hostage for shallow reasoning.

[ZephyrMenodora]

So why not free up all options all together. The entire moonward set is an homage to FFIV, offering equipment options for Cecil, Kain, Rydia, Edge, and Edward, but a DNC can wear Edward's armor, a WHM can wear Rydia's armor (in white), and a WAR can wear Cecil's armor. Cloud, Squall, Zidane, Firion, Tidus, Yuna, Lightning, Snow, Noctis, and even the FF1 Warrior of Light's armor is wearable by every job. Vaan, Balthier, Penelo, Basch, and Larsa's armor is wearable by multiple jobs as well. Fran's can be worn by any job as long as you're a female Viera.

There's no reason to continue holding old artifact gear hostage for shallow reasoning.

I see what your saying in the inconsistency, but I prefer job-specific gear that was released in that manner to stay that way. I always personally liked having some gear options that were a badge of honor for being dedicated to certain classes.

This may mean nothing to you, but it does to many. It's most likely why the devs made this reason to begin with.

[ty_taurus]

I see what your saying in the inconsistency, but I prefer job-specific gear that was released in that manner to stay that way. I always personally liked having some gear options that were a badge of honor for being dedicated to certain classes.

This may mean nothing to you, but it does to many. It's most likely why the devs made this reason to begin with.

And that isn't reasonable. The only glamour that should matter is your own. Anyone else's is their business that they are paying for. If aesthetic roleplay were a pillar of game design to the design team, then they shouldn't have introduced free-for-all gear like Cloud's and Zidane's and so on. They shouldn't have introduced "Joke" gear like swimsuits and chocobo mascot outfits. But they did, so clearly aesthetic roleplay is not a pillar of FFXIV's game design. Having some gear that is and some that isn't is just silly and an ancient concept to modern MMOs.

[ZephyrMenodora]

And that isn't reasonable. The only glamour that should matter is your own. Anyone else's is their business that they are paying for. If aesthetic roleplay were a pillar of game design to the design team, then they shouldn't have introduced free-for-all gear like Cloud's and Zidane's and so on. They shouldn't have introduced "Joke" gear like swimsuits and chocobo mascot outfits. But they did, so clearly aesthetic roleplay is not a pillar of FFXIV's game design. Having some gear that is and some that isn't is just silly and an ancient concept to modern MMOs.

But it is reasonable. Lots of MMOs have class-specific gear in some manner, and I always enjoyed having this on my chosen class.

You don't value class-specific gear whatsoever, which is fine. I am not trying to change your mind because it really doesn't matter to me what your opinion on the issue is. I only stopped by to share mine on the topic. There are also quite a few people in this thread who agree with keeping artifact armor exclusive, so maybe you can reply to them and try to change their minds or something? Mine's pretty set.

I don't find the issue of swimsuits and whether some glamours look good or not to be relevant to the discussion for me - you can respond with that to the poster who brought up that issue. I just think it's another topic unrelated to artifact armor remaining exclusive.