More GLAMOUR PLATES, please!

[Elissar]

Basically, just ask for it and don't look at the comments because nobody knows anything and not even Square seems to really know much because sometimes their own devs will say a thing is impossible and then proceed to just do it a year later. Might just be tech getting better, or maybe they just learn how to do more with less, but yeah.

I'm not sure if SE use Kanban board or SCRUM methodology but i would blame that.

[TheOperator3712]

Probably one day. People who love defending the status quo for whatever reason or people who love just dunking on CBU3 will come in and unironically say it's a technical issue like they work at CBU3 or something, but time proves these arguments wrong a lot. For example, in the housing forum they all said instanced housing was impossible due to technical limitations, but now we have instanced front yards on our instanced islands. Or when people asked for more glamour dresser space, we were told "server limitations" by these players who are just as ignorant as the rest of us but like to pretend to know things, and then one day the devs just randomly handed us more glam dresser space.

Basically, just ask for it and don't look at the comments because nobody knows anything and not even Square seems to really know much because sometimes their own devs will say a thing is impossible and then proceed to just do it a year later. Might just be tech getting better, or maybe they just learn how to do more with less, but yeah. I sound like a pessimist a lot on these forums, but this is actually something I'm optimistic about. I think the game can continue to get minor quality of life improvements if the trends we've seen so far continue. Now having said that, I don't actually think they read our forums so you might have to pay someone to post it in Japanese so someone important reads it. Like, I genuinely believe the English forums have been abandoned at this point. Ever since that guy was in here posting pics of himself in a kitty cage and it just stayed up for a week, I legit just lost hope in this place being read by anyone who mattered.

When interviewed in early ShB, YoshiP was asked about getting more glamour storage available. His response at that point was basically(to paraphrase), "It's something we'd like to do, but we don't really have the tech/resources at the moment." Given recent increases in the amount of glam storage and glam plates, I'd say they were able to find/get more of whatever they needed. Although the last interviews I heard that asked about the glamour systems left with me the impression that they might be working on replacing the existing system rather than continuing to apply band-aids to the already existing one.

[Iscah]

Yes. Sudden jump from 29 (was it 29? I forget) to 100 seems really out of the left field, when they could have done notably less (something like 50) and it would be recieved just as well. Frankly, I'm surprised they went for such unnecessarily high number, hence why I used hyperbole to refer to it.

The old number depended on how many classes and jobs you had unlocked.

My understanding is that they are stored client-side so they're basically free to add as many as they want and don't need to worry about server space for them, so they might as well go for the high number.

I've been using them to mark out gearsets I'm collecting so I don't accidentally hand them into the GC deposit.

[ForsakenRoe]

I'd rather they came out and said 'we are not doing any glamor system updates for quite a while, because we're going to be doing a full overhaul that will make the system less janky, please give us some time thank for understand' because constantly putting band aids on the dreadful system we have now sucks both for the players and the devs. Moving the system over to an 'appearances catalog' style system, even if it takes time, would be way more futureproofed than the current system

[Monokhrom]

I’d be surprised if it’s not increased soonish, if only to keep it in line with the number of combat jobs.

[Mura-]

They are QoL things why wouldn't people be happy about small things if they make the game more enjoyable?

[TaleraRistain]

Yeah it sucks to use the same glam for DoH and DoL because we don't have enough for all possible Jobs to have one.

[Atelier-Bagur]

I think it's ridiculous how we don't have one glam plate per job (including gatherer and crafter)

[Bekuta]

I wouldn't be surprised if it really was a technical issue having to do with the way items/plates load whenever you enter an instanced area. But that doesn't mean I can excuse it either. FFXIV's spaghetti code is still bogging it down even 10 years later, and I hope more strides are made to undo the damage. The entire glamour system is a mess and way too limiting

[Atelier-Bagur]

I wonder if the people who code ff14 went to the same school as the people who code D4 stash tab ... :3

Oh so you've heard about that. Considering the quick coding fixes this game made in the past, I feel like this is more likely lol