Dear Devs, please consider going to an Account-wide "Unlock" system for Glamour

[Terin]

Many MMO's are moving to a similar system of account-wide "Unlocks" for changing the appearance of your armor, and I feel that such would be hugely beneficial to FFXIV. It would remove the need for Character-specific Armoires, and it would even free up a *TON* of inventory-space from players, as we would no longer need to hold onto individual pieces of gear, which (likely) use far more data, anyways.

It's a Win-Win, really.

[FrejyaAthenes]

If you're talking about something similar to what DC Universe Online does, I can get behind that. Failing that, how about a catalogue item that has the looks of a bunch of different sets of gear that we can use as references to glamour?

[Terin]

Ideally, yes. Obviously, you'd still need to use Prisms for actually *changing* your armor's appearance (since Prisms are actually a nice way to keep tradeskills valuable, beyond high-end crafting), but once you've acquired and Equipped an item, its appearance would be unlocked to use, account-wide, forever. Guild Wars 2 is probably a better approximation of what I'm thinking, but honestly, I'm not THAT picky.

The nice thing, too, is it would allow us to easily glamour Event-exclusive items between characters, such as the Gender-exclusive stuff. For example, I have the Male gear from the Lightning Returns event, but not the Female gear; with this kind of system, they'd automatically be made account-wide, so if I ever start a female character, she'd have those options, too!

[SummerSkye]

Yes! Instead of having all that gear laying about, just have an in-game window with gear pieces "lit up" or unlocked to use, and stuff you have not won "grayed out" and unusable. It would look like a little catalog of all the dungeon gear sets, etc...and would save a lot of inventory space. I agree with keeping the need to use prisms, as well. Great idea!

[MatthiasS]

I would really like something like this, hell, it wouldn't even have to be account wide. I'd even pay real money for this feature.

[thunderbreak]

Kinda like what they did with guild wars 2? Maybe while they are at it do it for mounts and minions like WoW.

[DeadRiser]

Guild Wars 2 has one of the best systems for this.

Skin unlocked, goes to your wardrobe. And after a few button presses, you change the look on the spot.

If we had something very close to this, I wouldn't have the inventory problem I have now with saving all the pieces of gear I like.

[Warlyx]

yeah , same for dyes....the actual system makes no sense , is just a waste of space ,time and gil

[Slirith]

*insert ps3 limitation words here* /grumbles

[ErikMynhier]

*insert ps3 limitation words here* /grumbles

DCUO is a ps3 game so thats not really an excuse.