Suggestions: Quality of Life Stuff and other suggestions

[OmnysValefor]

Can the dev team look at fixing the February 10th update, considering they released it broken which I assume can only be an oversight due to being so overworked/understaffed.

What's broken about it?

[Azulu]

Can someone help me with ark angels? Please check out my post and get back to me asap

[Elexia]

What's broken about it?

It broke a lot of people's 3rd party tools.

[Ulth]

It broke a lot of people's 3rd party tools.

No? From the context of Machini's other posts it's probably about Mythics and Ergons seeing the least amount of improvement from reforging despite being the more challenging to get. As well as them supposed to be the best weapon hand tailored to that specific job where as relics, empyrean, and aeonic are general weapon types.

[machini]

No? From the context of Machini's other posts it's probably about Mythics and Ergons seeing the least amount of improvement from reforging despite being the more challenging to get. As well as them supposed to be the best weapon hand tailored to that specific job where as relics, empyrean, and aeonic are general weapon types.

This would be correct.

[Elexia]

This would be correct.

Ah, but see "broken" isn't the word for it, since literally the only thing broken wasn't anything game wise. The problem of using "broken" to describe anything other than something actually not working.

[machini]

Ah, but see "broken" isn't the word for it, since literally the only thing broken wasn't anything game wise. The problem of using "broken" to describe anything other than something actually not working.

Yes, broken is the word for it. It's broken the will of myself and three friends to continue playing this game. We have grown accustomed, over the years, to Squeenix's particular brand of mismanagement of its MMO properties. The only way this update could not be "broken" and instead be "functioning as intended" is if that intent is to drive away much of the remaining playerbase via lies and insults.

Everyone I know who played XIV quit after their last patch, which displayed similar shortsightedness and inconsideration.

I'm not going to stick around and fork over 56 to 112 dollars per month to a company that lies to me and insults me. If I want abuse, there are special websites I can go to just to get that.

[Domille]

Yes, broken is the word for it. It's broken the will of myself and three friends to continue playing this game. We have grown accustomed, over the years, to Squeenix's particular brand of mismanagement of its MMO properties. The only way this update could not be "broken" and instead be "functioning as intended" is if that intent is to drive away much of the remaining playerbase via lies and insults.

Everyone I know who played XIV quit after their last patch, which displayed similar shortsightedness and inconsideration.

I'm not going to stick around and fork over 56 to 112 dollars per month to a company that lies to me and insults me. If I want abuse, there are special websites I can go to just to get that.

I've been saying this for, hell 5 years now? The objective -IS- to get you to quit. period. Some of you are just to stubborn to see the signs. And square is just gonna keep pushing buttons until even Draylo's get hit.

On the actual topic of QOL changes, I can think of a shitload that Still need to be addressed.

Sub Menus: This gets worse every update, I'm so damn tired of confirming everything I do... SERIOUSLY. And sometimes the menu is in the affirmative, and sometimes it's in the negative... every submenu is different!!!!!!!! Change them ALL to the affirmative.

Trust: They still suck. WHMs spend more time relocating than casting, fix that. Gessho is the ONLY viable tank from not-event special trust, fix that. (August is RNG). Bards, stop gioving me ballad after I cast ONE SPELL I don't need ballad when I have 95% mp. Remove paeons. STOP INTERRUPTING SKILLCHAINS. Ayame is the ONLY(?) skillchain opener? Gessho is a skillchain closer... he spends too much time casting jutsu and gets tp far to slow. Yoran is a MORON, if an enemy casts sleepga HE TARGETS THE PLAYER LAST for cure... wtf!?

Reisenjima: I know you're "going to next year" but getting there takes no less than 5 minutes, the dragon is already dead by then.

Potpourri: The whole system is just terrible, scrap it, start over. Make it automatic.

Gobbie Dial: "member' no complaints" says the goblin, because 99% of the time its GARBAGE. Seriously, pre 119 does NOT exist anymore, remove all items that are pre 119. And remove bolts/arrows/tools/eetc or at least give the entire stack... omg

Abyssea: Tharohngi is still a NIGHTMARE... Come on, you've GOT to change Glavoid and Chloris pop requirements.

Salvage: once a day lockout on arrapago, time to remove it.

Job Points/Gifst: A lot of them are just completely useless, play your own game and see what a job would ACTUALLY want, please?

RANDOM: ENOUGH random augments, enough. Progressive augments are fantastic. Random is not, stop it.

Absurd numbers: Multiple thousands of anything you keep coming up with, with the intent of fixing it a year later, stop it. There is no year later.

Escha dragons: should have auto-reraise, and LARGER ZONES. You cannot get up after dying, you get winged instantly. And you CANNOT recover the zone is literally smaller than wings range.

Voidwatch: it's time for 2.0, sweeping changes across the board. Gear/Emp weapon item NO LONGER SHARE THE SAME DROP SLOT. 1 item 100% top slot. Gear 2nd slot 1% etc. New mobs, new mechanics etcetcetc.

[OmnysValefor]

I've been saying this for, hell 5 years now? The objective -IS- to get you to quit. period. Some of you are just to stubborn to see the signs.

No it's not, otherwise they'd quit introducing campaigns. They made this far-reaching goal and simultaneously gave a campaign to make it much easier.

On top of that, Square left many people under the impression that the game had just experienced its final content update. People accepted that. Square could have hung it up right there. They didn't.

On the actual topic of QOL changes, I can think of a shitload that Still need to be addressed.

Sub Menus: This gets worse every update, I'm so damn tired of confirming everything I do... SERIOUSLY. And sometimes the menu is in the affirmative, and sometimes it's in the negative... every submenu is different!!!!!!!! Change them ALL to the affirmative.

I have the same problem with cutscenes. I don't care to watch them so spam click through them and sometimes get stuck in a circle til I realize I have to read something.

Trust: They still suck. WHMs spend more time relocating than casting, fix that. Gessho is the ONLY viable tank from not-event special trust, fix that. (August is RNG). Bards, stop gioving me ballad after I cast ONE SPELL I don't need ballad when I have 95% mp. Remove paeons. STOP INTERRUPTING SKILLCHAINS. Ayame is the ONLY(?) skillchain opener? Gessho is a skillchain closer... he spends too much time casting jutsu and gets tp far to slow. Yoran is a MORON, if an enemy casts sleepga HE TARGETS THE PLAYER LAST for cure... wtf!?

I honestly feel like trusts need a mode, like /trust noattack where they don't engage. Have you ever tried to get buffs off something easy while Shantotto II is out? lol. So yeah, /trust noattack so they don't engage/cast attack magic but still buff/heal. And /trust nows so they don't ws. I don't care about Zeid's piddly damage that's probably going to miss anyway.

Reisenjima: I know you're "going to next year" but getting there takes no less than 5 minutes, the dragon is already dead by then.

Lowlow-pop valefor has the opposite problem. The only time you can expect the dragon to die is during JP primetime. It's a waste of time to go any other time. The irony is that if everyone who felt that way would muster up and go, the dragon would die.

Potpourri: The whole system is just terrible, scrap it, start over. Make it automatic.

Yep I sit on 75/75 merits too often because the goblin is such a pain to get to if you're not whm/blm (yes I use EP warp).

Further, the prices are just too high. Nothing they're offering, and very little in this game, is worth 25,000 merit points. As someone who has most of what the goblin offers--including the vw bodies--those bodies should be 500, 1500 MAX.

Gobbie Dial: "member' no complaints" says the goblin, because 99% of the time its GARBAGE. Seriously, pre 119 does NOT exist anymore, remove all items that are pre 119. And remove bolts/arrows/tools/eetc or at least give the entire stack... omg

Okay it's a freebie. It's like what's complaining about what's available from the login point moogle. You get what you get. And yeah, I've never gotten anything remotely nice from gobbie either.

Abyssea: Tharohngi is still a NIGHTMARE... Come on, you've GOT to change Glavoid and Chloris pop requirements.

This is fair. I always disliked Tahrongi but the idea of digging out lowbie proc weapons now is just... disgusting. I don't think Tahrongi needs some slack, I think abyssea needs some slack. You should have to farm the key item set once and then be able to buy it with 10k cruor.

Salvage: once a day lockout on arrapago, time to remove it.

There are good alternatives. The mere fact everyone wnats to focus AR2 is why AR2 has a once/day.

Job Points/Gifst: A lot of them are just completely useless, play your own game and see what a job would ACTUALLY want, please?

I agree completely.

RANDOM: ENOUGH random augments, enough. Progressive augments are fantastic. Random is not, stop it.

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Escha dragons: should have auto-reraise, and LARGER ZONES. You cannot get up after dying, you get winged instantly. And you CANNOT recover the zone is literally smaller than wings range.

This is true, I went to Zi'tah one night and got slept while summoning trusts from a very long distance. I died before I ever got near dragon and laid there dead because noone could/would raise. In besieged, campaign, bastion, reives, dragons, I have always tried to raise the dead. I'll suffer -points to help someone out. A lot of people aren't the same way.

[machini]

Domille is right, though. They *do* want us to quit.

Look at it this way:

Squeenix could have, after the abomination that was FFXIV 1.0, said, "You know what? We screwed up" and cut their losses. Instead they invested hundreds of millions of dollars more money into revamping the game. This is because they could not countenance the loss of face that would have resulted from having a main line final fantasy release be such a horrendous failure.

They were also extremely embarrassed, and still are, that people continue to play XI when XIV is around. The implication in some minds is that there must be something wrong with the "newer and better" MMO if people continue to play the "old" MMO. However, they can't just shut it down. But what they can do is drive away the players so that the game is no longer profitable and therefore can be 'gracefully' shut down.

That's what their goal has been for ages now. The only reason XI got a new expansion or any renewed anything was because of *exactly* how badly they screwed up with XIV. XI was their Golden Goose that printed money for them. They threw it under the bus in the name of XIV, and then XIV was a horrible failure.

All Squeenix has done for years now is bungle their FF MMOs, and the franchise in general. They could have gone the route EverQuest, the MMO that XI was cast in the image of, and had an amazingly successful game that was getting ~2 expansions a year and had a dedicated user base that will probably be playing the game twenty years from now. But that would have been a smart thing to do, and it would have taken some concerted effort some time ago.

They have ended console support roughly 10 years too late. Instead of making XIV, they should have ended console support around the end of Chains, moved to PC-only, and then there'd have been no need for XIV.

I could go on and on and on and on and on.