The simplest solution to the glamour issue

[Alberel]

I'm with Foxy here. There's no issue unless you go out of your way to make one.

I think it's more a case of plenty of other MMOs on the market now are allowing players to store absolutely every piece of equipment they ever acquire in a wardrobe to be used whenever they like. WoW recently introduced an extensive wardrobe system that retro-actively took the appearances of every item your characters had ever owned in the past since release of the game. FFXIV is far behind the standard for the genre when it comes to cosmetics systems now. People are asking for this sort of thing because it is now a basic expectation. If MMOs want to put so much of an endgame focus on making yourself look good they need to give players the tools to facilitate it. A wardrobe system is essential to that.

As it stands now, if a player wants just a single glamour set for each job that's 5-10 pieces (depending on if they bother with jewellery) x 12 jobs. You can double that if they glamour their crafting/gathering classes as well. The player has to keep hold of these glamour items permanently because every time they upgrade a piece of equipment they have to apply the glamour again. So for just 1 glamour set per class/job that's already a nearly full retainer. Now if a player wants to have alternate glamours for some jobs... well it adds up quickly.

For some players this is a BIG deal and the game doesn't facilitate that playstyle very well where other MMOs do.

[Blood-Aki]

I think it's more a case of plenty of other MMOs on the market now are allowing players to store absolutely every piece of equipment they ever acquire in a wardrobe to be used whenever they like. WoW recently introduced an extensive wardrobe system that retro-actively took the appearances of every item your characters had ever owned in the past since release of the game. FFXIV is far behind the standard for the genre when it comes to cosmetics systems now. People are asking for this sort of thing because it is now a basic expectation. If MMOs want to put so much of an endgame focus on making yourself look good they need to give players the tools to facilitate it. A wardrobe system is essential to that.

WoW is over a decade old, and a dated game at that, FFXIV has only been out for 3 and a half years, Wow has had plenty of time to work out the kinks, and since it isn't nearly as graphically pleasing as FFXIV it might be much easier for them.

[FaileExperiment]

You could just as easily say that FFXIV has had that time as well. By releasing after WoW, and having had WoW's example all those years, there's no excuse not to do everything they did but better. A glamour catalog type system was asked for during 1.0. They've had more than enough time to implement something. Maybe they didn't have the resources or money or time, but that shouldn't affect player expectations.

[Shippuu]

You could just as easily say that FFXIV has had that time as well. By releasing after WoW, and having had WoW's example all those years, there's no excuse not to do everything they did but better. A glamour catalog type system was asked for during 1.0. They've had more than enough time to implement something. Maybe they didn't have the resources or money or time, but that shouldn't affect player expectations.

WoW only just added their transmog catalog a few months ago. So arguably if ffxiv was copying stuff WoW did when they relaunched then it makes sense not to have a glamour catalog. There's a lot more to it than just "make the system".

The OP says his idea is the "simplest" solution but it likely isn't. Without knowing exactly how their character and item data storage works and how much memory is needed per character to store it all one cannot comment on how easy or simple it would be.

[Alberel]

WoW is over a decade old, and a dated game at that, FFXIV has only been out for 3 and a half years, Wow has had plenty of time to work out the kinks, and since it isn't nearly as graphically pleasing as FFXIV it might be much easier for them.

Unfortunately that's not a valid argument. If a game on the market wants to remain competitive it has to compete with the market as it is today. You can't use excuses like "it took WoW over a decade to add that". FFXIV is not competing with the WoW of a decade ago. It's competing with the WoW that just launched an extensive and exhaustive cosmetics wardrobe feature.

As for graphics, that has nothing to do with the issue. The problem is data storage in terms of keeping track of what glamours a player has acquired. It's also an invalid argument though. Given the number of MMOs that offer wardrobe features now it is clearly a solvable problem. We already have the exact feature in question as well: the armoire. It simply needs to be expanded to store everything, rather than a limited selection.