Amateur modding seems to be better looking than professional in-game options?

[Daeriion_Aeradiir]

One of the biggest things to understand is that modders aren't constricted by deadlines, budgets, or having to worry about the game's rating/system requirements and going through Q&A testing. It's easy to make stuff look super high quality when it's a single mod you're working on because you enjoy making it, rather than having to make literally an upwards of 100 pieces of gear every 3 months which you may not enjoy the aesthetic of.

In addition, Square has to setup the coding, database entries and many other things that are already pre-established for modders to come in and basically plop something they've made over something existing.

[Eloah]

One of the biggest things to understand is that modders aren't constricted by deadlines, budgets, or having to worry about the game's rating/system requirements and going through Q&A testing. It's easy to make stuff look super high quality when it's a single mod you're working on because you enjoy making it, rather than having to make literally an upwards of 100 pieces of gear every 3 months which you may not enjoy the aesthetic of.

In addition, Square has to setup the coding, database entries and many other things that are already pre-established for modders to come in and basically plop something they've made over something existing.

This, pure and simple. I mean it's the classic, "your job isn't so hard, even I can do it" or similarly the "grass is always greener" approach. Just because you perceive something as better or easy, doesn't mean it is.

[Theodric]

This, pure and simple. I mean it's the classic, "your job isn't so hard, even I can do it" or similarly the "grass is always greener" approach. Just because you perceive something as better or easy, doesn't mean it is.

It's their job. They're getting more money from FFXIV than they used to due to the increase in micro-transactions and yet we're getting even less in terms of glamour and hairstyles with each new patch.

This isn't some struggling indie development studio operating out of a small office building. It's one of the giants in the industry.

[Eloah]

It's their job. They're getting more money from FFXIV than they used to due to the increase in micro-transactions and yet we're getting even less in terms of glamour and hairstyles with each new patch.

This isn't some struggling indie development studio operating out of a small office building. It's one of the giants in the industry.

You missed the point entirely.