Logged back in today to take my alts through the Starlight event, and I just feel so dejected. Over the years I've taken thousands of pictures, I loved meeting up with friends at the holidays to take pictures of our characters and I loved looking back at those memories.

How does a game that put so much into a photo mode, mess up this badly? You had the forethought to think that people might like their characters enough to want to take pictures of them, but then not enough for thought to preserve those characters, even though we were promised they would.

The only reason I go into Gpose since DT is to get pictures of how off things look. I WANT to take pictures and enjoy the seasonal events, I want to get excited about things, but then I look at my characters and immediately get taken out of the moment because of how uncanny they look. What's the point of pictures when my characters, and my friends characters don't look like themselves?

I wanted to be excited for the savage raids and for chaotic, but between the DT graphics update messing up not just characters, but lighting to the point of making people sick, I realized, what was the point?

I want the mounts and glamours from the content, but I can't enjoy the glams and cosmetics because I don't have my characters anymore, so even if the content is fun and engaging again, finally, why would I want to even try it, since I don't know if I'll ever be able to enjoy my characters again. FFXIV can be a fun game without the glam and glitz but what made it a special experience for me was taking the more engaging game aspects and melding them together with the fluff of getting to make a character and feel like I'm going on a journey with them.