"Dated" Equipment

[Cycloptichorn]

Yup all gear macros with 'dated' in the new title must be re-done...

[tymora]

I believe all of them will be deleted at some point in time, the "Dated" is to allow a transition into the new meldable equipment until that time.

[zaviermhigo]

The recipes being changed didn't really effect the gear becoming dated, I think its this new coloring system that made it so our gear would have to outdated. Especially with colored pieces having different stats. I'm ok with it as long as I can wear that and turn it into materia.

[Solfleur]

Will I be able to repair "dated" gear and keep using it? I also noted all the stuff I had stored on my mules at OUTRAGEOUS prices, just to store it for future use all SOLD. I made a lot of gil but lost a lot of unique clothing while away. So in order to look unique I'll have to hoard what little I have left. Yet ANOTHER thing I liked about this new version of the game now gone. Someone more versed in Japanese culture than I said I should have never pointed out they were making it more female friendly...that it was BIG MISTAKE to say that! He (a Japanese man) said "we are not encouraged to attract females into our gaming experience. Forgive my saying but it--is--not--Japanese--way. That is what Miqo-te are for--so men may play as females--so other men have something pleasant to look upon, but we do not encourage young men to be--frivolous." I thought he was joking. I hope he was joking. I do not understand a culture that sells the used panties of young girls in vending machines for male pleasure, I must admit.

They are going the wrong direction so fast in this game it's mind boggling. Pretty soon they'll be encouraging us to call the characters "toons" too. It's like it's become this major ego struggle--the new developers trying to destroy EVERYTHING fresh, innovative and wonderful the ORIGINAL developers put into this game that made it so unique and exciting...just to dumb it down (and re-use as much as the old stuff from XI as possible...except the good stuff, like the AH of course.) I think they're in for a major blow once they expect people to pay for this mess.

And to think in my real life people call me Pollyanna.