Quote Originally Posted by Amused View Post
This isn't lore though. This is just their excuse to gate something new that's entirely cosmetic behind a massive grind wall.
The grind wall gives the new dyed items value. You don't seem to notice that alot of people like your post because they too want to dye these pieces for the glamour system because some of these pieces are very detailed.

The glamour system is popular because it allows you to be unique. By putting barriers in to the system, you now have the ability to become even more unique than unique. Its not very unique when every other John Doe looks exactly like you because we can all dye them for little to no cost. People don't pay 2-10 million gil for the "onion hat" just for the looks but because its also harder to obtain than the average items flying around on the market.

Some of these pieces look stunning in their preset colors and would look more stunning when correctly colored to mix-match with other glamoured pieces. Its well worth the effort especially when you know, everyone else who "liked" your post and every other similar post, won't be as stunning as those who put the effort in to dying them because they felt it was too much work.

If you don't like being unique or even more unique than unique, WoW, currently offers players the opportunity to look like everyone else and degrades the value of everything to nothing.

For some effort involved, I prefer the uniqueness caused by the barrier over the John Doeness caused by being allowed to have everything for little to no effort.

Keep in mind, being Unique, is a big thing in MMOs~