Glamour restrictions: a hinderance to creativity

[Lihtleita]

You honestly thought you could ever "tell square enix what to do"? Here or anywhere?

Yes. Unironically.

Like when we told them to add femroes. Or when we told them to fix pvp. Or the legacy dungeons. Or preatorium. Or giving hrothgar their ears back. Theres actually quite a few off the top of my head.
Thats what a forum is for my dude.

[Carin-Eri]

I do find this situation disappointing personally.

I mean, I absolutely ADORE the Panthean Casting set when am playing as a Red Mage and would love to be able to wear that set whilst playing as Bard.

[SacraAnima]

There is really no reason to not allow pieces of gear to be used as Glamour for any job. Obviously keep the actual item locked to the job that it was made for, but once in the Glamour Dresser it should be able to be used across all classes in glamour plates. The argument that "Black Mages shouldn't be in full armor" died a long long time ago when the devs introduced joke glams and bikinis. You can't run a roulette without multiple people going against their job identity in how they make their glams, and that's how it should be. People should be able to choose how they want their characters to look and express their jobs, what if there was a BLM who really wanted full plate armor? What's so bad about that when you can literally be in a chicken suit.

All in all, I see the removal of job restrictions for Glamour as a completely positive addition into the XIV gaming experience.

[Silverbane]

Re: "You honestly thought you could ever 'tell square enix what to do'?":

Thats what a forum is for my dude.

Who told you that?

I suspect that the English forums may only exist because it's a check-mark on some marketing exec's list of features an MMO has to have.

[Deveryn]

There is really no reason to not allow pieces of gear to be used as Glamour for any job. Obviously keep the actual item locked to the job that it was made for, but once in the Glamour Dresser it should be able to be used across all classes in glamour plates. The argument that "Black Mages shouldn't be in full armor" died a long long time ago when the devs introduced joke glams and bikinis. You can't run a roulette without multiple people going against their job identity in how they make their glams, and that's how it should be. People should be able to choose how they want their characters to look and express their jobs, what if there was a BLM who really wanted full plate armor? What's so bad about that when you can literally be in a chicken suit.

All in all, I see the removal of job restrictions for Glamour as a completely positive addition into the XIV gaming experience.

You say there's no reason, yet here we are... still. It's almost as if there is a reason. As nice as it might be, it just might not be possible. If you had any degree of insight into what goes on behind the scenes, you might understand that. A dev team is not Emet-Selch with the ability to snap anything into creation.

[Bobby66]

Aye, adding something comes with a cost. Now none of us work for SE--making an assume here--so we have very little knowledge on how they allocate their resources but while it is another assumption to remove the restriction and or rework the entire glamour system would mean lost content in another space of the game.

Hell they already admitted due to the current work load of things they added they could not work on Eureka style content. Which is something many did enjoy, I am sure they have a white board in their office with features they would love to add if they had the time, and I am sure rework to glamour is on that list, and if it was something that was as easy as many like to claim, I am sure a it would have been treated like hats or the new races, majong etc . . . worked during spare time. It most likely is not that simple so people can say no excuse but as some of stated clearly they have an excuse those against it just do not like the excuse.

[Lihtleita]

Re: "You honestly thought you could ever 'tell square enix what to do'?":

Who told you that?

I suspect that the English forums may only exist because it's a check-mark on some marketing exec's list of features an MMO has to have.

when the forums were launched during 1.x it was specifically to gather feedback on the game in order to improve it, and to open up a direct line of communication to the xiv community

you know , telling the devs what to do

go back far enough on the forums and look at whats archived, thats mostly what it is

[Deveryn]

you know , telling the devs what to do

It's a suggestion box, not a bunch of work orders.

[Silverbane]

when the forums were launched during 1.x it was specifically to gather feedback on the game in order to improve it, and to open up a direct line of communication to the xiv community
you know , telling the devs what to do

Who told you that?

[Skivvy]

Who told you that?

I'd agree that none of us can tell the devs what to do with their game, but the forums are definitely a place to leave feedback and suggestions for them to peruse.

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...-XIV-forums%21