The future of FFXIV, in 6.1 and beyond!

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Originally Posted by aveyond-dreams

I have 0 interest in exploring anything to do with the ascians once 6.5 is over-now is their time to shine but once Endwalker is done please give us new villains.

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Cant agree more no more Ascian crap. Felt that was the purpose of getting rid of Zodiark as way of saying were done with them. No more of them bringing gods into against or causing trouble behind the scenes. Its time for them to be dead and gone. Its my opinion they are dead and will not make anymore appearances outside of Pan.

Yes new comrades different threats better consequences more world lore is all I am really looking for going forward with the story.

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Originally Posted by Seiori

Yes new comrades different threats better consequences more world lore is all I am really looking for going forward with the story.

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Would not mind new scions and the current ones have dream and goals. Would be great to see them find a way back the first then see Thancred leave to stay with Ryne on the first. Estinien has joined the scions he could fill Thancreds role if Thancred did depart.

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Originally Posted by NanaWiloh

Azem is technically us, Gaia is more like zenos human with ascian power. So knock those two off the list.

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They literally said that though. Azem= WoL and loghriff= Gaia. Why knock those two out of the list when they're just listing the convocation members so it's easy to track who still survive or not.

Even if Gaius has red masks, doesn't mean he's able to permanently kill them. The biggest challenge of killing an ascian is due to their soul able to escape to the rift. When we kill nabriales, we need white auracite and tupsimati to blast him. I really doubt Gaius knows about this, or even if he did, where does he get the required aether anyway to kill them permanently?

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Originally Posted by Kozh

They literally said that though. Azem= WoL and loghriff= Gaia. Why knock those two out of the list when they're just listing the convocation members so it's easy to track who still survive or not.

Even if Gaius has red masks, doesn't mean he's able to permanently kill them. The biggest challenge of killing an ascian is due to their soul able to escape to the rift. When we kill nabriales, we need white auracite and tupsimati to blast him. I really doubt Gaius knows about this, or even if he did, where does he get the required aether anyway to kill them permanently?

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Don't know but the source is not the only world and likely not the only one who found a way to kill them. We have not seen them in a while they could be dead or alive, I hope dead and hope they stay there. Zodiark is no more the purpose is done, I think its best to stop asking before the writer gets the funny idea we want another 10yrs of more ascians. My Opinion their dead and done

I'd settle for another ten years of the Ancients and non-hostile dealings with Garleans.

The game has some pretty intriguing lore and many of the 'recent' story revelations should have arguably been revealed and explored much sooner. The story could have latched on to Regula as way to get an 'in' with Garlemald instead of just pretending as if he never existed. A bit too late for that now, unless they decide to bring him up by making Jullus turn out to be his nephew or some such...

More overworld content.
New non-MSQ dungeon series meant to be somewhat challenging for light parties.
New large scale instance NOT using the crappy Paper Mario style consumables. Make them non-disposable or don't make them at all.
Dropping the chosen one celebrity shthick with the player character to go back to being just an adventurer, by all means necessary.
Brand new Viera and Hrothgar Trust for the next MSQ. No I don't think they should just use the job quest NPCs.

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Originally Posted by Theodric

I'd settle for another ten years of the Ancients and non-hostile dealings with Garleans.

The game has some pretty intriguing lore and many of the 'recent' story revelations should have arguably been revealed and explored much sooner. The story could have latched on to Regula as way to get an 'in' with Garlemald instead of just pretending as if he never existed. A bit too late for that now, unless they decide to bring him up by making Jullus turn out to be his nephew or some such...

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We defeated beings each stronger then any of the remaining ascians, add on everything we have gathered tech and knowledge wise. Ascians have be reduced to a joke now. Need new villains we don't know how to defeat and will actually struggle against.

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Originally Posted by NanaWiloh

We defeated beings each stronger then any of the remaining ascians, add on everything we have gathered tech and knowledge wise. Ascians have be reduced to a joke now. Need new villains we don't know how to defeat and will actually struggle against.

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We had help against each of those beings. We don’t have that anymore. Hydaelyn’s blessing is presumed gone. We don’t have Unsundered help anymore and the Azem crystal will most likely be gone soon enough as well. Honestly we can argue there will never be a threat for the remaining lifespan of the game because Dynamis is such an asspull of a mechanic that we can use anytime to let us win but i digress.

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Originally Posted by NanaWiloh

We defeated beings each stronger then any of the remaining ascians, add on everything we have gathered tech and knowledge wise. Ascians have be reduced to a joke now. Need new villains we don't know how to defeat and will actually struggle against.

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What's this got to do with his post?

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Originally Posted by KizuyaKatogami

We had help against each of those beings. We don’t have that anymore. Hydaelyn’s blessing is presumed gone. We don’t have Unsundered help anymore and the Azem crystal will most likely be gone soon enough as well. Honestly we can argue there will never be a threat for the remaining lifespan of the game because Dynamis is such an asspull of a mechanic that we can use anytime to let us win but i digress.

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That plus the most it yielded thus far was some bird waifu who thrashed about for about 35% of the fight, flailing her head.

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Originally Posted by Lauront

What's this got to do with his post?

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Just saying the Ascians are about as dangerous a house fly now and its time to move on. Also admit my error on the all ascians being gone.

As for the future only have one thing at the moment I would like to see. Please for the love of all mighty let us butt housing items like couches and chairs firmly against walls. Its so annoying having to storeroom glitch them against a wall. :(

I would really like updated UI design at some point:

* Removal of inconsistent and unnecessary "middle man" menus that you have to click through.
* Wholly object-based items and equipment for every system involving them: drag-and-snap to move, a "multiple selection" feature for dragging/deleting items.
* No more character animations for highly repetitive things like desynth/melding/crafting. It makes these systems actively unfun, even for bulk crafting.
* Armor Inventory subdivided into "assigned to job templates" versus "free." The current intermingling is very cluttered and often results in accidentally deleting BiS gear.
* Ability to single-click close out of entire menus.
* Auto-close dialogue/menus upon walking away.

Other things:

* Removal of off-hand weapons. It's a dumb, ugly limitation for crafters, and unnecessary to keep all the inventory space just for PLD shields.
* Removal of crafting-as-jobs. They all play the same and are boring to level *and* play because they are slow, unengaging, and needlessly complicated. Is not actually skill-based because nearly everyone uses macros. Changing your whole gearset just to craft is a pointlessly frustrating step. Keeping all this crafting gear onhand just clutters your inventory. Still having crafting specialties and levels would be fine. If crafters each played differently I could maybe see a stronger case for keeping them but they are sooooo much unfun bloat in the game.
* Removal of location-based systems. We have linkpearls. We have magic. We are practically gods in the game. I get "virtual realism" or whatever as gameplay immersion but no other MMO actively slows down basic gameplay loops like this. It is painful to go from other MMOs to this and have to find a marketboard or inn just to engage with fundamental systems.
* Removal of the glamour dresser altogether. Again, we have magic. We shouldn't have a cap on what past gear we can glam. It would also make the limitation on glamour plates far less frustrating, and removing any sort of "inventory" system associated with glamours might actually free up space for inventory elsewhere, as well as probably be implemented in a way that totally removes a glamour inventory cap.
* Removal of MSQ roulette. Make MSQ playable with AI party members ala squadrons or trusts.
* Removal of a full-party party requirement for all content before the current expansion (or before the prior expansion, perhaps), have an auto-populate feature where after five minutes without a full party, the duty will start and all unfilled party slots will be AI. It is ridiculous how difficult it is to assemble teams for older content when all you want to do is farm stuff. I would also consider implementing something similar for 24/48-man raids which also take forever to queue for. I would be fine with a handicap of the AI sucking so the duty doesn't go as smoothly/quickly, but that would still be more fun than *not getting to do it at all for the entire evening*.
* Auto-dismount in battle.
* Glamour change available outside of cities.

Can Y'shtola stop disappointing. I keep wanting to see her start taking names and kick butts, yet it never happens. Like covered in the blood of her enemies and looking for more.

As for better graphics, I question that ever happening. Its a full expansions worth of work to redo the existing assets, yet it won't bring them more subs. The existing content won't hold people for an additional 2 years while they redraw the game.

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Originally Posted by deadman1204

Can Y'shtola stop disappointing. I keep wanting to see her start taking names and kick butts, yet it never happens. Like covered in the blood of her enemies and looking for more.

As for better graphics, I question that ever happening. Its a full expansions worth of work to redo the existing assets, yet it won't bring them more subs. The existing content won't hold people for an additional 2 years while they redraw the game.

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Dont think we will ever see much combat out of Y'shtola. She is in the same vein as Krile more researcher and problem solver then fighter. She no doubt could hold her own in a fight but fighting is not really her forte.

Aside from some aspects of SHB, I'm not the biggest Y'shtola fan but I'd say it is her forte, seeing as she is a trust combo of a BLM and a WHM, and bailed Hien out when fighting Daidukul and Magnai. But she's not the kind to revel in it, that much is true.

For me key points would be:

* Update ARR/post-ARR instances to use modern mechanics symbols
* Re-do westwind/prae/centri and Crystal Tower in some way
* Refresh guildheist, maybe also think about adding new entries per patch, like say for Dohn Mheg and Malikah's Well final boss unique mechanics.
* Create alternative ARR quest chain that is shorter/faster ("it gets good in heavensward")
* Fix bad exp from fates and roulettes (when you get a lower level instance, or capstone instances when leveling an alt job)
*** (and maybe allow getting exp boxes when on max level/job in need to then use on a DPS job that has long queues).
* Look how the game would scale with subsequent expansions (1-100, 1-150... this can get problematic).

If it were up to me, I'd have them completely stop trying to make different types of content - and pour those resources into more and better dungeons, trials, raids and MSQ.

remove that stupid class restriction on gear for glamour indeed.

...better pvp lol

The one thing I want them to work on as their primary focus for 6.1+ is to expand their staff for the love of god. With a playerbase that's rapidly growing and the "minorities" in the playerbase, in terms of people who immerse themselves in certain content and want more of it, are reaching well beyond just a few thousand people. "Only a small percentage of the playerbase does X content so why should they put time and resources into it" should no longer be a thing that's said because a small percentage of a huge playerbase is still a LOT of people. And now that we know how much their profits jumped since last summer, there's no excuse left for them to not hire more people and expand their teams. They need to reach a point where there's enough employees for every player, from the RPers who always have the perfect glamours, to the ultimate farmers who have one of each weapon from all 3 ultimates, to the market board crafting tycoons who are sitting on 999999999 gil, to have 100% assured access to fully fleshed-out GOOD content that appeals to them. Expand the design teams so we can get better overworld textures, higher definition character models, better glamour and customization options, and so on. Expand the battle content teams so we can ensure beyond any shadow of a doubt that we'll get at least two ultimates each expansion, make future high end content more interesting and varied, ensure that we get our Bozjas and deep dungeons each expansion, and so on. Once they actually make motions to grow their team, then we can start actually asking for that sort of stuff.

Their first priority needs to be to update the engine, it is a must, or the team can finally move on to the next final fantasy MMORPG, for the long run, that is supposed to be the goal, as for the short run, shorter patch release, rather than 1 big patch of everything, i rather have shorter patch release time frame

they certainly need more staff. Especially the job team

-The current team is spread far too thin and that's without taking into account the lack of care and understanding given to tanks and especially healers or the blatant bias towards dps. Minimum one person for each role and each role needs to be headed by someone who mains that role and is responsible for taking and responding to feedback.
-Jobs also need a complete 180 in the dumbing down and homogenising to be instead focused on unique playstyles with varying levels of skill floors, but all jobs must have high ceiling gameplay increased depth
-if possible return of cross class or some other system to customise the job to the player's preference.
-levelling kits need looking at. Gain new actions and traits following the job quests as originally intended. This would also solve 2 problems in 1. Missing rewards from the job quests and backended levelling kits when they need to be front loaded.
-An end to this "It will make a good base for the future" style of job design. Jobs should feel complete and fulfilling to play every expansion
-Resource management jobs. Not everyone enjoys builder/spender rotations but thats all we have nowadays.

Content schedule needs to be looked at. Relic weapons need to start at the same time as savage raiding since there is no long term battle content if you can't or won't do that for whatever your reasons. Weapons should not take 7 weeks to be gained when most players have more than one job. Additionally jobs should not have to suffer 2 years for major fixes. There should be adjustments at the 1 year mark for outstanding qol issues. Not saved up for an expansion to score PR points.
Finally all tokens should be able to be exchanged for glamour or other tokens when the content is no longer relevant. For example 4 ridorina tokens gets you a hat from the raid. 8 alex shafts can be exchanged for an alex 4 book

Battle design needs a hard look. Across the board we need more unavoidable damage so healers matter and tanks actually need to tank more than just pressing a mitigation every 90s for a tank buster. Big potency jumps that tend to occur each expansion only begin at level caps+1 to preserve the challenge of older content. Ilvl caps need lowering on some content.
Eg heavensward potency boosts start at level 51
Dungeons need a serious shake up. 3 trash packs then boss repeated endlessly is bad, stale design with worthwhile rewards for side paths. This was the reason nobody did the side paths in 2.0- there was no reward for doing so.

finally whatever exploratory content they have make those new actions, buffs whatever permanent not consumable

Isn't Final Fantasy 16 using the same engine as 14? I think yoshi-p said that engine can scale really well, so we could see some pretty big improvements with the game's graphics if they so chose.

In character customisation I’d like the option for Viera to have digitigrade feet like in XII… I never take off my Viera sandles so I don’t care about lack of customisations in terms of footwear.

Not long to go until we can have a cheeky sneak peak at 6.1… I really hope they show us what’s happening with Hrothgar - it’s the one thing I’m most excited about.

…….also maybe let us return to Ivalice properly in a future expansion, with iconic major cities and such (Rabanastre <3). But considering the ivalician raids weren’t well received in JPN, I doubt it’s a possibility but I can still dream.