Recent Q&A about glamour log...

[Reaperking386]

I'm not tech person, so take this with a grain of salt when it comes to me comparing ff14 glamoir with wow. World of warcrafts armor data is prob very low due to it being simple in design and details and only armor is green armor and above. Common armor is not in the transmog system and wow has practically hardly any armor design for Transmog. It is not so simple to say if wow can do it then FF14 also can. Truth is 14 has more detail high resolution armor and more armor overall that is invested in their glamour system.

[SniperCT]

It's worse than that...
FF14 still has code left over from FF11.
Some of the code FF14 is running on was developed in 1999!

I would not be surprised!

That would be ignoring that it's 6 months between 5.55 and Endwalker, the beginning of a whole new Expansion cycle, in the example you quoted, the question posed was 12 months of nothing for a new cosmetic glamour system and a new housing system, so no, we'd be halfway to nothing.

Plus we've already had a small patch, and there are going to be multiple events between now and november. Remove those, imagine 12 months of nothing new.

You want an example of a year with almost no updates?

Wow's 5.4 patch lasted from september 2013 to october 2014 (for WoD's prepatch). Or 13 months

The only update in that time was to add the in game shop.

Players damn near rioted and all we got out of it was a generally panned expansion.

Then they did it again, 6.2 in June 2015, Legion prepatch in July 2016 with nothing in between. Player reaction was even worse but we at least got a good expansion out of it.

But both events I think seriously helped to damage the game. 9.0-9.1 was almost two of wow's normal patch cycles in lengths and players have .... been very unhappy, as we've seen from the influx.

A 12 month drought in FF14 would for sure damage this game, especially if we didn't get any new content out of it and just basically database and coding fixes.

[Tyssyn]

I think it would take them longer than a year. And while they were doing all the work to the database and code, they wouldn't be working on the next expansion or anything, so once they got everything redone, then we'd be waiting another however long it would take them to create an actual next expansion.

[SniperCT]

I think it would take them longer than a year. And while they were doing all the work to the database and code, they wouldn't be working on the next expansion or anything, so once they got everything redone, then we'd be waiting another however long it would take them to create an actual next expansion.

It would probably be about 18 months at the soonest between content. Probably longer.

FF14 would pretty much cease to have a player base lol

[Tyssyn]

It would probably be about 18 months at the soonest between content. Probably longer.

FF14 would pretty much cease to have a player base lol

Pretty much my thought as well, players would unsubscribe in droves, SE would see they were losing money and say well let's just end it.

[SniperCT]

Pretty much my thought as well, players would unsubscribe in droves, SE would see they were losing money and say well let's just end it.

FF14 having such a steady drip of content is one of the things that attracts players, too.

[SturmChurro]

FF14 having such a steady drip of content is one of the things that attracts players, too.

It does? ..

[Genz]

I'm not tech person, so take this with a grain of salt when it comes to me comparing ff14 glamoir with wow. World of warcrafts armor data is prob very low due to it being simple in design and details and only armor is green armor and above. Common armor is not in the transmog system and wow has practically hardly any armor design for Transmog. It is not so simple to say if wow can do it then FF14 also can. Truth is 14 has more detail high resolution armor and more armor overall that is invested in their glamour system.

It doesn't work that way. The glamour log would be just a list of yes/no (1 bit per equipment), so the only pertinent data is the quantity of equipments. Indeed there is the possibility to make a glamour log with only a sub-set of the equipments (only green/blue equipments, for example), to make it smaller.
As an aside, the quality of the 3d model ("more detail high resolution") is relevant only for the client side (on players' computers/console) ; when talking about server-side things, graphics are inexistent.

It's worse than that...
FF14 still has code left over from FF11.
Some of the code FF14 is running on was developed in 1999!

yeah no, maybe players should totally avoid talking about technical things of the game...

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Also, you should stop panicking about a potential content drip if they were to work on a glamour log. It would be a background development involving mainly the core programming team, so new content would obviously keep going ; the same way they're currently working on the world visit system, which is also a "hard" thing to implement. (programmers are only needed for actual new systems or mechanics, which are added to the development tools of the game and can be used by non-programmers)

[SniperCT]

It does? ..

Pretty much every 4 months? Like clockwork? When there's not a global pandemic.

[Theodric]

I think a lot of content in FFXIV is unfortunately done with pretty quickly and lacks much in the way of staying power.