Raid Gear design,?

[Raikai]

Agree with the poster stating that is mostly a subjective theme. I didn't like the current set, but I know some people really do (and they match really well to the 'Mad Max' leveling items) - I personally wanted a more colorful approach with visual reference to mexican luchadores with the facekini masks.


However, there's one objective thing that can be looked upon is to keep repeating themselves - some collections really look too similar to previous items. One example of this is the Neo-Kingdom items kind of resembling the Rinascita sets from Endwalker. With more diversity with the sets they provide, more people might be happy.

[Jojoya]

But should the devs aim to cater to those with bad taste and like garbage? Or should they use their talent and make something that looks good.

First, I'm on board with you. I don't like the current gear appearance.

But whose to say that we're the ones with good taste and those that like the current gear have bad taste? As has been repeatedly said, taste is subjective. I know players that absolutely love the current gear models. They love street gear, they love cyber punk and so the aesthetics are scoring with them.

So I shrug and make more use of my glamour dresser instead of using the new appearances.

However, there's one objective thing that can be looked upon is to keep repeating themselves - some collections really look too similar to previous items. One example of this is the Neo-Kingdom items kind of resembling the Rinascita sets from Endwalker. With more diversity with the sets they provide, more people might be happy.

I never took a good look at Neo Kingdom but Archeo Kingdom is 100% Rinascita updated for the second dye channel and new graphics. I know the crafted sets are frequently older gear models being reused but to be reusing such a very recent crafted set was extremely disappointing.

But I'd still rather use it (or even the original) than the current tomestone and raid gear for glamour.

Who's to say that the devs that designed the pieces you dislike don't actually like those pieces themselves? If I'm designing armor for a game, I'm not going to design something that I think looks bad. I'm going to design something I like. You'd be hard pressed to convince me that the devs of FFXIV are any different.

Except they don't have complete creative freedom. They're going to be given a theme to work around. If the theme is not to their liking, they might well be designing something they don't personally like.