...remind me again why, after 11 years and 5 expansions, we still need to be shackled by the Dresser at all?
There is so much gear in this game. So much gear with wildly different styles, each suited for a different type of player or event.
For years I've been on the Dresser treadmill, pulling out gear that I still use for Glamour to make room for the New Thing™, filing the old into the absolute dumpster fire of this game's inventory management, likely never to be seen again. If I'm lucky, I'll notice it a few years down the line and put it back into the queue of things to be filed back into the Dresser where something else will take its place. If I'm unlucky, I'll be clearing out a retainer or my saddlebag and not even notice when it's been shredded down to the byte.
Hell, I've entirely stopped putting weapons and accessories in the Dresser because they just take up too much space. All my weapons are glamoured manually from my inventory (read: dumpster fire of this game's inventory management), and all my accessories are just singular items that I think look good with everything I wear.
You know what game I never had problems like this in? World of Warcraft.
Even before they redid the transmog system to make it infinitely better, I never had problems storing all the gear I used. Their banks and inventories are spacious and easy to organize compared to what one character would need, and while it was a pain to have to pay gold for transmog every time, they made up for it by adding ways to do it from anywhere in the world, without needing to retreat to a city/inn.
After they redid the transmog system? It might as well be perfect (aside from still needing to pay gold for it). No gear cluttering my inventories, so much room for sets I can't tell you if there's a limit to them, and a way to actually search for items I want by category, source, type, and name without needing to leaf through the pages like a damn bureaucrat.
And the worst part is, despite a WoW character not needing nearly as much space for this stuff as a FFXIV character, they still made the change. If WoW had the dresser and XIV had the catalogue, I don't think I'd care as much.
See...
What I'm trying to say here is, such a fundamental system to the game shouldn't be so crimped by the creative decisions of a single man. And I know it's a fundamental system because it's all there is to do in endgame unless you are lucky enough to get a house or feel like grinding your patience down with Ultimate-grit sandpaper. And I know it's the creative decisions of a single man, because it's those creative decisions that have also crimped housing, and PvP, and job design, and (depending on who you ask) the story.
I guess this is what we get for playing a JP game, apparently they take their lumps like something else over there. Why listen to people with standards when you can still make money not doing that?
Just add the Glamour Catalogue. Just do it. Do it. Nobody wants the dresser anymore. It isn't cute or thematic enough to warrant it superseding all other options. We literally use magical crystals and glass panes to project clothing holograms onto our bodies, and you're telling me I'm still forced to use a tiny box in a room I don't even own to store everything?
So stupid.
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