Suggestions: Quality of Life Stuff and other suggestions

[Eth]

If the purpose of proto waypoints is to reward advanced players with unique shortcuts that reduce the need for travel, then the proto waypoint teleport to Castle Oztroja is currently wasted. Its destination point is just a few steps from the survival guide, near the entrance of the castle. Please consider moving the destination point and the corresponding geomagnetic fount to a deeper and more useful location within the castle. A point just behind the four-switch door would be great.

[Beastorizer]

Can you improve cosmetics from login campaigns? Compared to other MMO, XI's weakness is customization. You either look like a ninja, samurai, white Mage, paladin, or something in-between.

XI takes itself too seriously with the FF motif. Lighten up a bit & have some fun, releasing non-XI lore items perhaps? The Denim pants were a great starting point. Maybe some camo army pants, bell bottoms, top hat, a cape? Guitar as a weapon skin? You get the gist of it.....
(Someone can probably make a glamour from that random list....)

[Alhanelem]

I mean there have been a lot more vanity items in the last few years. Sure, it's still not near other MMOs but it's far more than the game had around the time lockstyle was first introduced.

[Canin]

Everyone seems to be farming coffers lately, is something going on? I just joined and cant get my AF at all.
It's been 2 days and nothing to show for it. ):

[nixRidge]

XI takes itself too seriously with the FF motif. Lighten up a bit & have some fun, releasing non-XI lore items perhaps?

Only if they do this very carefully and sparsely.
I'm personally very happy that they take their visual design seriously. It's very easy for a game to completely lose itself and entirely ruin the game's aesthetic/design rules by adding too many cosmetics.
I admit that my character looks fairly goofy with the mandragora masque on at all times, but I feel that FF11 allows itself some fun while being very grounded in its visual presentation, which is great. The Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy 14 cosmetics are fine too, in my opinion, they're not too invasive and very few people choose to use them anyway.

I played Final Fantasy 14 since Legacy until 5.0, and slowly watched it cave in on itself over the years. After playing the second half of Dawntrail's story, I just had to call it quits and haven't touched it since. The whiplash I got after the first half of it (which I adored) was enough to send me packing, lol.
Just feels like eventually it became a crossovers-first cyberpunk-themed MMO, among the other gameplay-related things I personally take issues with. Now, I know that's a me-problem and I appreciate that. A lot of people still love the game and even more so now that it looks and plays the way it does. I'd just really hate for that to happen to FF11.

But:

top hat

{ Yes, please. }

[Alhanelem]

I played Final Fantasy 14 since Legacy until 5.0, and slowly watched it cave in on itself over the years. After playing the second half of Dawntrail's story, I just had to call it quits and haven't touched it since. The whiplash I got after the first half of it (which I adored) was enough to send me packing, lol.

lol it hasn't "caved in on itself." it's doing fine. Sure, the DT story may be weak, but the whole situation has been vastly overblown, and the next expansion specifically aims to address a lot of popular issues. And I find it petty to quit over the story when that's just one part of a much larger whole. DT added some great content to the game (like the XI raid, the new deep dungeon which I find the best since HoH), with Beastmaster still on the way as well.

That said, it's rather ironic that you specify disliking the post launch segments more, for most people I've talked to it's been the opposite. But on the plus side, the grumbling over DT seems to have worked to FFXI's benefit. lol

XI has impacted my life over a span of decades and I always keep coming back to it. But I enjoy both games in their own ways. Though I principally enjoy it for its PvP which I just can't get here- And it's not becuase I don't like it but because there's no incentive for anyone else to join me in playing it.

[nixRidge]

lol it hasn't "caved in on itself."

That's true, I even contradicted myself by saying people still love the game
Emotional response took over and I didn't think as critically as I should have.

And I find it petty to quit over the story when that's just one part of a much larger whole.

Yeah, it was mostly the gameplay changes over the years that did it for me and not Dawntrail specifically.
I think it did a lot of good things too, in fact I don't agree with a lot of the criticism it got. But the shift in visual presentation and overall themes didn't really help what I was already frustrated with, chiefly the combat changes and amount of crossover content.
So again it's honestly just a me problem, and still very petty of me too, haha. The game just became something I didn't really enjoy anymore so I don't blame people for still enjoying it. If something isn't fun to me anymore I just don't play it. I wouldn't hesitate to do the same if FF11 wasn't fun.


Cool to hear the new Deep Dungeon was good though, that was one of my favourite things alongside the Field Operations like Eureka and Bozja.

I am sorry if I was rude or caused upset.

[Alhanelem]

Yeah, it was mostly the gameplay changes over the years that did it for me and not Dawntrail specifically.

Well, Evercold is introducing a new (yet somehow optional for pre-IC jobs) combat system revamp and inventory revamp.

Cool to hear the new Deep Dungeon was good though, that was one of my favourite things alongside the Field Operations like Eureka and Bozja.

I am sorry if I was rude or caused upset.

Its nothing really I just feel like people tend to exaggerate when they're flustered. Obviously Dawntrail isn't winning any best expansion awards, but sometimes it seems like people get too fixated on the problems to acknowledge the things that went well. Admittedly I do sometimes end up white knighting Wuk Lamat because while I'd agree with everyone she stole the spotlight from the main character way too much, there were also some really wrong things that happened, like people hating on the voice actor and such that really was just wrong. Hyperbole is basically my pet peeve.

I love deep dungeon as the best solo content in the game, and its quite reminiscent of Nyzul Isle. I have solo clears on HoH and the newest one.

crossover content.

I feel you on that, though I don't mind crossovers if they make some sort of sense. Like crossing with FFXI makes lots of sense especially when you consider that in the very early days of development there were talks of linking the games together directly (i.e. you could warp to the other world from your mog house and it would switch to the other game- It's one of the reasons the initial XIV races were designed to be similar to FFXI's.)