Why are most players content with putting on generic glamour?

[Nicodemus_Mercy]

And you both missed the point. The OP was saying how everyone looks the same when they play miqo'te and au ra, and the try harder thing was aimed at them. Like I said, I used the thav set because I liked the looks. If you like the looks, more power to you. But my post was squarely aimed at debunking the OP's point. I might have done it badly, but that was the intention.

The very name of the topic refers to "generic glamours" not race. My choice of race is predicated on the same grounds as my choice of glamour. Its what I find aesthetically pleasing and any opinion to the contrary is irrelevant to me. I like the way my character looks. I would have likely been a hyur if they had more/better face options but they don't have a single one I found truly appealing. The Au Ra have some appeal but some of their aesthetics just didn't feel right for me. Elezen have strange body proportions to me. They're overly tall and slender with heads that seem a bit too small for their bodies. Lala's just aren't my taste and neither are Roes. The Miqote have 2 faces I find appealing, as well as a body shape and proportions that feel right to me. Ergo Miqote it is.

Just like commonly used glamours, if you see many players choosing a specific race with specific face/hair combos that's does not mean those players have a lack of originality or creativity. It simply means SE has to add more variety in the faces and hair. Face especially since there's like only 4 to choose from. Were I a dev I would look at which faces and hairstyles were the most popular and investigate why. Once I determined the reason I would direct efforts into creating new faces and hairstyles that fall into a similar category of taste.

Choosing to look different for the sake of looking different is no virtue IMO. Especially if the result is you are denying yourself the options you truly find appealing due to some misguided concern over what other people look like. I choose what I think looks good for both my race/face/hair and my glamours. What anyone else does has no relevance to me and anyone else's opinions of my choices can burn in the bin with those pseudo-dress glamours that dominate the chest options for everyone.

[Paladinleeds]

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We're on the same path here. Both of us chose what we wanted because we liked what we wanted. I chose the dark Au Ra because I wanted a Xaela and I felt the dark blue skin matched the Au Ra a lot better. I also dolled her up with lots of makeup because that was what I wanted. But the OP was hinting at, at least in my eyes, that because we used the same generic glamour, we were somehow content with looking the same. I'm going to concede to you on the point SE need to add in more personalisation options, but I think here we both feel the same way.

[Nicodemus_Mercy]

We're on the same path here. Both of us chose what we wanted because we liked what we wanted. I chose the dark Au Ra because I wanted a Xaela and I felt the dark blue skin matched the Au Ra a lot better. I also dolled her up with lots of makeup because that was what I wanted. But the OP was hinting at, at least in my eyes, that because we used the same generic glamour, we were somehow content with looking the same. I'm going to concede to you on the point SE need to add in more personalisation options, but I think here we both feel the same way.

Fair enough then.

[Vurtney]

You just haven't embraced your inner lesbian.

I love you. Let's be a thing.

[Hypnotic13371337]

Funny, you don't look like a pack of starburst blew up and dyed your gear all random colors

[Korbash]

I don't harvest or craft so I cannot glamour anything. Unless FF XIV gets same wardrobe cosmetic system than LOTRO or similar I get punished along with everyone else who doesn't craft and gather.

[Chocolys]

I don't harvest or craft so I cannot glamour anything. Unless FF XIV gets same wardrobe cosmetic system than LOTRO or similar I get punished along with everyone else who doesn't craft and gather.

What about using the Market Board to purchase your glamours?

[AmalonStar]

I don't harvest or craft so I cannot glamour anything. Unless FF XIV gets same wardrobe cosmetic system than LOTRO or similar I get punished along with everyone else who doesn't craft and gather.

You don't need to have a gatherer or crafter to be able to glamor, you only need to do the lv 50 glamor quest in Mor Dhona. Once you've done that you can glamor your gear.