I guess this is why so many people are essentially paying a monthly fee to play, "Dress-up Barbie". Which would also explain why Glamour is treated as a character advancement in its own right and tucked away behind so many blatant timesinks.
Possibly, you have the same thing in SWTOR basically... a lot of dress up and roleplaying. Kind of funny that between SWTOR and FFXIV, you could make the argument that it's really what most gamers what given how successful both are doing and it's a huge part of both of them.
Well I can't speak for everyone but I'm still subbed because, unlike every other mmo i've ever played, ffxiv has legitly added actual content every 3 months like they initially promised. And it's real, new content, like completely new dungeons, new 3d modeled enemies and gear, new ways to advance. I feel like my sub is actually going towards something. I seriously hope some dev isn't looking at ffxiv's success and thinking 'MUST ADD GLAMOUR TO MY SHITTY GAME'
I played FFXI for a long time and I don't ever think my character's appearance was a motivation to be honest, it was always about squeezing that extra point of strength in to a gear swap or building that perfect evasion set for soloing NMs. Hell, for most of the time I played him my Nin looked awful in O-Hat, Scorp Harness, and Haidate. In FFXIV though I have to admit I found myself overly concerned with appearance. I never really felt my character was growing significantly stronger in 14 despite iLevel increases because so much of the content is locked away behind level caps and level syncs so you're significantly gimped regardless of how geared you are. I guess I felt if my appearance at least changed something must be improving even if I didn't technically see much of an improvement.
For at least the first four years, there wasn't much choice in the matter in how a player looked in FFXI. Not sure when you played but there wasn't any type of wardrobe system at all during that time so of course you couldn't have your character's appearance as a motivating factor as Mithra with the red tinted hair instead of blue. The whole point back then regarding appearance was AF for most people; you wanted the swanky Red Mage pimp hat look or the E-bow for your Archer. It was looks but those items happened to be pretty important because they were the best for those jobs. Relic weapons were rarely seen by anyone, even after several years of playing. Even then someone would finally see someone with a relic and say"Oh nice stats! But it's ugly though. I like the looks of mine better."
ISIS is dead as far as I know. Our Arab heritage didnt last.
Every once in awhile, you're going to meet that a-hole that no matter what you say or how fucking civil you say it, is going to want to pull hate to show how little his penis isn't be it DPS or Heals. Sometimes they just like fucking with you while you tank.
Well he may have been trolling me, but wasn't quite sure since he typed "good job" at the end of the run. Heh, maybe that just confirms it =)
To be fair, if everyone was on full health he shouldn't have been pulling hate with Medica. Sure, if he used it right off the pull he'd be pulling the same amount of hate as if he'd just been using a Cure. The aggro in FFXIV is pretty badly handled anyway though. For example, if I throw a Regen on an out of combat tank and then he engages a group of mobs I will often pick up aggro on the ones he isn't directly tanking because of the enmity generation caused by the healing over time. This used to cause issues in CT on the last boss when the giants would often run over to another group because one of their healers still had a regen running on the MT.
