Rewards are Punishment. Yes.

[YovelaLindswood]

The Glamour Dresser system turns what should be a joyful reward into a tedious chore. As many of you know, if you’ve ever played World of Warcraft, you’ll know its Transmog system automatically logs any item’s appearance the moment you loot it. You can vendor, trash, or turn the item into crafting mats—and still use its look forever. Meanwhile, in FFXIV, every new piece of gear feels like a burden—something to "deal with" later.

Ok time to rip the bandaid off. The reason we have an inventory based glamour system instead of a skin log like wow is really simple. At $2 a retainer they have 0 incentive to clear up the bank space that is statistically most likely to be holding glam items for collectors. As long as we're getting sold bank tabs I doubt this will change. And if "data storage" is the concern a wardrobe like wow takes up less data than bank tabs and the dresser.

[Ysera_Brynat]

The sub has been cancelled.

Love y'all! Hope to see you again in 8.0

[Mercury_Grey]

Oh goodie more people comparing WoW to FFXIV, good thing i have my hot chocolate and like using the forums to see what gossip and such happening over watching a drama show. Save me like $5 oh electricityt oday!

[Claria-Vivian]

Devs have 0 reason to work or improve their spagheti code. Why work when you can just say lol spagheti code says no so we wont.

Its a easy way to say, we dont feel like investing resources for a problem you been dealing since day one. It worked than and it will work now.

[Shnrnr]

Been feeling this hard lately. I used to enjoy collecting all the gear for my main class (apologies to all my other classes), and collecting treasure so that I could craft and collect rare glams. It is definitely a disincentive to a lot of gameplay to be unable to fully enjoy the rewards. I find myself thinking more and more, "oh, I'll do that content if/when we get more space in the glamour dressers" (such as if they implement outfit sets for blue/green gear).

[Themarvin]

the problem is more that you have to be in a sanctuary to use as well... which is also annoying.... I don't mind the prisms, that is absolutely fine, but they should expand the inventory, likewise making more items for people to wear and old gear sets from before Dawntrail wearable by all jobs, once PLACED IN THE GLAMOUR DRESSER.

As it is now people are just finding alternative routes to wear what they want no matter how the Developers designed the items.

[Miohazuki]

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.

It’s because of ignorance on players side .they think that making changes in game is as simple as switching the light on

[TomsYoungerBro]

Oh goodie more people comparing WoW to FFXIV, good thing i have my hot chocolate and like using the forums to see what gossip and such happening over watching a drama show. Save me like $5 oh electricityt oday!

Bro is crashing out from someone asking if the glamour system could possibly be less garbage

[Shurrikhan]

It’s because of ignorance on players side .they think that making changes in game is as simple as switching the light on

>> "Here's the payment for the job we expect you to do up to industry standard."

<< "I would, but see, I made a mistake 12 years ago and am therefore disabled. Well, not really disabled, but in a similarly pitiful state, in that I expect pity. So, you'll do the decent thing pay hourly as if I were going to finish in a normal time and accept that things will not necessarily be up to industry quality nor on time, surely?"

We can be aware of spaghetti code and still have reasonable expectations commensurate to the payment given and the margin of profit the game therefore generates.

The only way in which we could be said to be asking for <a simpler, more intuitive, and ultimately less data-intensive implementation already demonstrated across multiple MMOs, including ones that the XIV dev team themselves have played and explicitly taken cues from repeatedly> to be done as quickly as "switching the light on" is in that we gave assumed it'd take a decent bit of time but also have been asking for it for a decade now.

[PaulusHamsteru]

It’s because of ignorance on players side .they think that making changes in game is as simple as switching the light on

It's not ignorace, we're just tired of hearing the same excuses over and over again. How about they come up with solutions instead?