SE just make a vanity slot to solve all your issues with this.

[Reika]

@Onisake

You fail to address my point.

Any player can wear whatever they want at any time -- right now (provided their jobs/classes fit the bill).

Your vanity system does nothing but allow players to engage in endgame content wearing (what is currently) garbage/underpowered gear.

The devs said its a no-go, so the onus is on you to make an extremely solid case for it (something better than variety/customization for its own sake)



@Reika

Housing adds functionality via storage, gardening, chocobo raising, as well as a bit of realism / immersion enhancment to the game. You could hardly say the same about a vanity system.

Gardening, chocobo raising, blah blah. that stuff is all extra stuff too. We dont need it, they should just stop working on it and focus on ~The Game~ so we can play ARR sooner. They can just not cut our inventory spaces and voila~ extra storage, so mey to extra storage. I say they wasted development time cutting our inventory spaces and creating temp NPC's too. All a waste of time, slowing down production of ARR.

So many people wanna call out so many requests as 'a waste of production assets/halts production' yet there are so many things that are putting in ARR that are a waste of production too.

Some more examples:

Grass. We dont need grass. I would say they wasted a lot of creation time by putting in grass. A lot of people dont even like how the grass looks in ARR anyways, so they should just leave it a lone and redirect their assets to ~The Game~

Character models. I would say I could play the game just fine with a wire frame character with no texture, facial expression, whatnot. Why waste time and developmental resourses on character models. A lot of people are upset that they reduced the amount of animation characters have in ARR vs 1.0. I fail to see how that is a problem, they just didnt waste their development assets on making animations flasy.

Free company emblems on equipment. Is this neccisary? I think not. they are taking precious development time in figuring out where they are going to place the emblem on each different chest piece or wherever it is going to go, when they could be focusing ~The Game~.\

Holiday events. They never needed to do any of these, and 'apparently' spent developmental assets creating them. Could have just been focusing on ~The Game~ the whole time right? maybe we would already be playing ARR if they never did holiday events.

I know, all this is really silly. We would like these extra things so the game isn't so bland and un-enjoyable. So i really wish people would stop calling everything someone requests a waste of resources, because thats silly too. They do things that some people call a waste, then maybe those people get vocally or non vocally upset after they do it, but then they get over it and play ~The Game~