Quote Originally Posted by Enkidoh View Post
Also FFXI never had "free-form glamour". FFXI's glamour system Style Lock is Job specific by default as it deactivates and deletes your glamour if you change your Job (and SE even stated that on the FF website), but players found an exploit using macros to use gear for glamour that a Job cannot normally use, and SE just hasn't bothered fixing it, due to the skeleton staff that FFXI's development team now consists of. Just because SE never clamped down on it doesn't mean it was by design, it's an oversight players are abusing, nothing more, and they do so at their own risk.
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/t...l=1#post545505

Patch notes for FFXI from March 26, 2015, listing the revamp of /lockstyle and the addition of the /lockstyleset command, allowing players to glamour any piece of gear as long as they can equip it on at least one job.

The conditions for which equipment may be used with the style lock functionality have been changed.
If these conditions are fulfilled, players are able to display even equipment that is not usable by their current job. The new conditions for /lockstyle are as follows.
  • The player must be in possession of the piece.
  • The player must fulfill the conditions to equip the piece on at least one job they have acquired.
  • For weapons, the weapon type for main and sub weapons must be the same as those currently equipped.
This was not an exploit but an intended feature introduced by the devs. The only thing that doesn't make this "free-form" is the requirement that the player has to be at least able to equip any piece of gear on one job.

It's also worth noting that the final expansion, Rhapsodies of Vana'diel, had not released at this point and that it would've been very difficult for FFXI's dev staff to have been reduced to a bare minimum at that point.