Just copy the Transmog collector system from WoW. Glamour needs a serious update!!!

[Granyala]

A revamp of the glam system is probably one of the most requested feature, they can push it to the side as much as they want because of the complexity of the task, but the truth is : it will always be brought back to their attention until they do something about it.

It is possible that they are already working on it.
The current system is awkward at best (especially the absurd "can't apply plates here" restriction, that renders it useless 80% of the time), I'm sure they are aware of it's shortcomings.

That being said: until they have an Idea on how to pull it off, I don't think they will give any insight or even acknowledge that they are working on it.

[Garnix]

It is possible that they are already working on it.
The current system is awkward at best (especially the absurd "can't apply plates here" restriction, that renders it useless 80% of the time), I'm sure they are aware of it's shortcomings.

That being said: until they have an Idea on how to pull it off, I don't think they will give any insight or even acknowledge that they are working on it.

Absolutely! I would hope they learned from their past mistakes and don't announce stuff that they never deliver. (RIP Egi Glam)

[Vahlnir]

Maybe SE doesn't want us to collect and hoard glamour.

If they didn't want that they wouldn't be adding more with each patch.

[SigmaOZ]

Sure, if you are ready to go 4-5 years w/o any new patches or content, they can do that.

Not necessarily, they can develop a new online game that would serve as FFXIV's remake or continuation, same game but future-proof.



We wouldn't miss a single patch but would have the certainty that there was a new online game in development instead of resources going to XVI.

[Enkidoh]

Not necessarily, they can develop a new online game that would serve as FFXIV's remake or continuation, same game but future-proof.



We wouldn't miss a single patch but would have the certainty that there was a new online game in development instead of resources going to XVI.

This simply will not happen I'm afraid. FFXIV was already remade once due to an exceptional circumstance (FFXIV 1.0's complete and utter failure and the huge hit to both SE and the FF series's reputation in general it caused) which is no longer a problem. FFXIV ARR is FFXIV-2 (it was literally called 'FFXIV version 2.0' in it's early concepts), and successive expansions have only raised the game's 'version' number up to currently version 5.0.

FFXIV ARR is making a consistant profit for SE and Shadowbringers has been universally lauded as the best expansion for the game yet. SE simply are not going to throw an enormous amount of development resources into the gamble of creating a 'new' version of the game simply to have fancier graphics (even more so given Yoshi's past attitude towards this subject, stating that it was an obsession with high-end graphic fidelity at the expense of everything else being a fundamental problem SE has long had, and which was a major cause of FFXIV's 1.0's failure - "the graphics disease" as I understand he termed it in an interview back in 2012/13ish.).

And lets face it, MMOs' day in the sun has since passed and are no longer considered the 'in-thing' in gaming like they were in the Noughties. No longer are developers obsessed with trying to create a 'WoW-killer' like they were in the late 2000s/first half of the 2010s, as the idea of trying to 'kill' WoW was laughable anyway (although FFXIV ARR did somewhat succeed in giving WoW a bloody nose, a split lip and two black eyes at least). Battle-royale type games like Fortnite, augmented reality/VR games or more asscessible open-world games are considered the current fad for gaming and thus developers like SE will naturally more focus on those styles of games rather than another MMO which cost huge amounts to develop, often don't succeed in at least breaking even on the investment if that, and tend to die a year after birth more often than not.

In a world battling with a global once-in-a-century pandemic and the resulting financial recession it's caused, developers are even more reluctant to spare the cash on uncertain gambles like a new MMO, especially a new version of one that is still making enormous amounts of money and paying for itself several times over in it's present form. In the current climate at least, SE simply are not going to create a 'new FFXIV' or 'new FF MMO', I can pretty much say with conviction for the foreseable future at least, FFXIV and it's predecessor FFXI will sadly remain the only MMORPGs in the FF series.

[Granyala]

FFXIV ARR is making a consistant profit for SE and Shadowbringers has been universally lauded as the best expansion for the game yet. SE simply are not going to throw an enormous amount of development resources into the gamble of creating a 'new' version of the game simply to have fancier graphics (even more so given Yoshi's past attitude towards this subject, stating that it was an obsession with high-end graphic fidelity at the expense of everything else being a fundamental problem SE has long had, and which was a major cause of FFXIV's 1.0's failure - "the graphics disease" as I understand he termed it in an interview back in 2012/13ish.).

Well he has my support. While I do wish for sharper textures, I think the gfx as such are fine. Pretty good even for an MMO.
I'd rather have more fun gameplay than more shinies.

[Iscah]

Adding to Enkidoh's post - sure, they theoretically could rebuild the game to iron out all the little frustrations like inventory and glamour restrictions, but it's very unlikely to be worth their while.

It would have to net them enough additional subs, or the retention of enough players that would have quit over those issues rather than stayed around feeling slightly unhappy about them, to justify the cost of rebuilding the game from scratch AND forgoing the hypothetical money they could have earned by putting that effort into making and selling a new unrelated game while leaving FFXIV as it is.

[GrizzlyTank]

I'm pretty certain this has been asked countless times in the past already and SE has consistantly shot it down stating how gear appearence is coded outright prevents such a system from being implemented (the glamour dresser system is the closest you'll get and even that uses a workaround). The citation for this eludes me at the moment though.

And it was most definitely similar issues for WoW... Until they decided to actually resolve it. Fixing a proper glamour log should have been higher on their priority because the repeated inventory issues appearing without it only makes the game discouraging to play. Not very fun logging on thinking "What piece of gear do i delete today!"

[GrizzlyTank]

Except they told us they had problems implementing the glamour dresser, and some of those problems are why we're never going to see a housing version of it despite their original intent to add one.

I don't think those problems necessarily rule out something closer to transmog, though.

The glamour dresser is literally just an "bank" with an item filter.

[Lihtleita]

They'd probably need a team thats familiar with the engine ffxiv is on, so I'm secretly wishing that once a big se project wraps up they can poach staff to outsource a transmog system to. That way the xiv devs dont have to halt whatever else theyre doing.