Why are most players content with putting on generic glamour?

[Nirokun]

That's wrong imo... I wouldn't assume you have bad taste coz you like tea and I don't, I would just think you had different taste. Yes it's an opinion... So why would I judge you for it? Why would I judge a character that's wearing the same dress as 3 others? They like it, I say rock it.

Ok great, you picked it and liked it. Other people picked their's and liked them... Referring to those people as lesser just because of their choice is the flaw I was pointing out. Well when it comes to something so harmless as what they are wearing. You don't have to like diamonds (using your example) but you don't have the lump everyone who does together in one group and assume they are not creative people.

Make no mistake I am a firm believer in individuality, but how someone looks and what they are wearing is the last thing I think of when I think of someone as an individual.

So we agree everyone can have an opinion. Somewhere along the line you take my personal opinion of others, and myself, and conflate it to mean that somehow I'm acting out my thoughts. If I think the oft referred to thavnarian bustier and how ubiquitous and boring it is to see on a large part of the playerbase, I'm NOT somehow policing them. I think it's boring, and I say it's boring in a thread about how another person thinks the same way about said bustier (and similar glamours).

"They're not mindless clones unless they're all the same! But I think there's a certain kind of mindset out there that plays like this is a single-player game ("You don't pay my subscription!" lol) and is very predictable and boring. Is that necessarily bad? No, not at all, but it's definitely boring and uninspired."

I wrote this in my initial post (http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post3996078). I never said they were bad people, but when talking specifically about glamour, saying that something very, very common is boring and uninspired is not untrue. Saying these person lacks creativity (remember, in a discussion about glamour), is not untrue. The same with rings, if we're talking specifically about rings, and everyone has a diamond solitaire or diamond with diamond halo, it's so common and boring due to it's ubiquity. If the women themselves picked the ring (so we don't assume someone else made the choice for them), then in a discussion about creativity, we can say her choice wasn't very creative. People can say this positively, saying she chose a classic style, but said style is also lacking creativity.

I am also a firm believer in individuality, but this conversation is specifically about people who wear common glamours. I'm not judging their character, just fashion sense. o.o

[Rhuazie]

I'm not judging their character, just fashion sense.

I think maybe you could've been more clear about that, rather than insulting a person's tastes because of glam color. Well, maybe you didn't feel you were being rude, but your point sort of got drowned out from the blunt disrespect thrown at her face lol.