[Request] Bare Feet

[Niwashi]

I really wish they'd do this. I'd prefer it to be the default when not wearing shoes, or as a toggle option like with showing headgear, but would settle for it being implemented using a glamour item.

it would add/tAke away height from the character. (based on how they coded gear)

Yes, just as nearly all shoes currently in the game do already. That's not an issue. (Or rather it's an issue they've long since taken care of, and wouldn't need to do anything different for this.)

The reason they haven't done it so far is that Yoshi thinks bare feet look weird, and that walking around without shoes on would hurt your feet. (Never mind that that isn't true at all and many people do it routinely.) It is true that in Japan going barefoot outside is rare. But just because he thinks it looks strange to go out barefoot, our characters end up having to wear sandals in a hottub and while sleeping.

[AstralKaos]

As with all barefoot/removal of the skin sandals threads, I agree, please do it!

it was a dev reply may want to look up the other 30 threads one has a dev reply saying they can't do this. I saw it sometime during 2.0 era.

Look up them 30 threads and see the plethora of solutions to this non-issue, it's been debunked numerous times as well as addressed with ideas and actual solutions; the devs just don't want to say "we don't want to" is all. And if you need further proof that it's possible then look up a certain thing you can do to alter character models that is lewd; if a dirty-minded single guy can do it then a full-fledged team can work it in for swimming.

Please people, stop spreading this misinformation.

*edit* Seems others, too, have said about the mod. Oh well, the more that disprove the reason from way back the better^^

[Bourne_Endeavor]

it would add/tAke away height from the character. (based on how they coded gear) if you notice all gear has a heel or layer very little has a flat foot. the closet shoe i saw that was flat was the crafted moonfire sandals

they already explained they can't do it, for the reason of coding height correctly.

Nope. There is a texture mod that adjusts the difference without any issues. Granted, the models for our feet in this game are really bad but it's easily doable. The devs simply don't want to.

[Callinon]

it was a dev reply may want to look up the other 30 threads one has a dev reply saying they can't do this. I saw it sometime during 2.0 era.

There was a dev reply about not being able to add more retainers because of bandwidth limitations.

$2/month makes that problem go away.

There was a dev reply about not wanting people to be able to lay down on their own because people would use it for "indecent" purposes

$7 is apparently the cure for indecency.

Now I'm not saying that I'd want this to be a mog station option, because I think that's gross in a subscription game (event items? sure... stuff like this? no), but I think we have enough evidence to conclude that a dev saying no is not the end of the conversation.

[Zojha]

Nope. There is a texture mod that adjusts the difference without any issues.

Well... in that case they can just give the mod the parser treatment and sweep it under the rug.

[Kanemano]

I work in games, and this is actually not true. The various foot gear we have vary widely in size of the foot and height (take a look at that one foot gear from pvp that resemble hoofs). The foot/shoe models are created with a variance on where the foot starts and stops, without changing our character's height;

These pictures were taken from the same camera angle, yet look at the difference in height from the base of the feet and the ground (if i had a choice as the the modeler, i'd use the ninja kyahan as a base to create a bare-foot "boot").


There isn't anything tech-wise preventing SE from creating a bare-foot look. It's as easy as creating a new boot. The only thing that stops them from doing so is... well they just don't want to.

From:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...15#post2767315

Dated: 02/08/2015

[Callinon]

From:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...15#post2767315

Dated: 02/08/2015

Yeah that's good. The only possible objection I can see as a legitimate reason not to do it would be that they'd have to sample new sounds for bare feet walking on things.

I mean think how weird it would be for us to be clacking around on stone floors with nothing on our feet.

It's a bad reason, but it's the excuse I expect.

[Rita1989]

Lets be honest if they ever add this it will be on the mog station for $15

[Kokinos]

My biggest gripe about it is that we have the monk job in the game and...well...martial artists are very well known for fighting barefoot, aren't they. It is so mind-bogglingly bizarre that it isn't an available option, and has not been for years now.

What a strange thing to not be able to do, especially in a game with so much character customization. I just wanna be a barefoot karate hobo.

[shockwave2493]

Try these bad boys for glamour. Not sure if they are still at the vendor but they are on my Marketplace for around 5k.

http://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Th...39;s_New_Boots