Quote Originally Posted by Arohk View Post
i am pretty sure storing an actual item+ dye is a lot worse than a simple checkbox of the armor pieces you accquired already.
What I'm trying to say is their frustrating approach is probably based more on what they were able to do and less on what they wanted to do. I could certainly be wrong, but that is sometimes the case in these scenarios.

As a more well known example, players wanted more stash space in Diablo 4, only to find out that the reason Blizzard was reluctant to provide it was because their existing setup loaded (into memory) the entire inventory and stash contents of every player you encountered. So it wasn't that they didn't want to provide more storage, it was that they couldn't provide it for performance reasons.

I think it's well known that FFXIV is a bit of a coding nightmare. I think there are a lot of things they want to do but can't without much, much more work than players probably assume.