Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XXXVII Discussion Thread

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Originally Posted by Syrus718

FF14 Used FFXI as a Base. Wow Released Late 2004, And FF11 Released Early 2002

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FFXIV is nothing like FFXI, FFXI has better ways of searching for people even, no way that is true. The way you use actions and such like that feels like wow. FFXI had a completely different system in managing how to use abilities. Edit, I just remembered something, FFXIV did take a good amount from FFXI with character models and beastman and stuff along those lines. One can also suggest the 3 kingdom things is deeply rooted in ffxI as well, a desert, a forest, a shipyard. I believe all 3 kingdoms share the same flag colors for PvP, always did find it weird that uldah is blue, but thinking about this, makes sense. Past character models and the 3 kingdom concept, FFXIV has no relation to FFXI.

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Originally Posted by Syrus718

FF14 Used FFXI as a Base. Wow Released Late 2004, And FF11 Released Early 2002

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Yoshi has repeatedly stated that he's looked to WoW as guidance for designing an accessible game. Which is funny, because they seem to have ignored many of the best parts.

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Originally Posted by Naunet

Yoshi has repeatedly stated that he's looked to WoW as guidance for designing an accessible game. Which is funny, because they seem to have ignored many of the best parts.

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Maybe he does not know or understand truly how far people go with glams.

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Originally Posted by Syrus718

FF14 Used FFXI as a Base. Wow Released Late 2004, And FF11 Released Early 2002

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FF 14 use FF 14 1.0 merged with WoW as base.
What mechanic (not visual) unique to other MMO, except all jobs on 1 character, shared FF XIV ARR with FF XI?

Good work with the translations. Subtle changes to WHM...I'll take it.

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Originally Posted by Princess_Momoka

Since that is the case, where the development gets ideas from other games, a glam log in this one should been here some time in HW.

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You do know that WoW didn't get its glamour log until mid-2016, right? They haven't even had it a year.

IF we're pretending that this game is using WoW as a basis for all its ideas (which is laughable - they look to some core concepts that WoW has made popular, but also do their own thing and have since the relaunch), that would mean the devs here would have had about 9 months (GW2 has had a system in place since 2012, but the calls from players for a glam log didn't really start to get a lot of traction until WoW added their version, at which point it became a much more asked for feature) to rework the glamour system here while also finishing the other patches and the work on the expansion, along with the server move and the inventory increase. Maybe you believe developers can work miracles on their own game just because other developers have added a feature after several years, but I'm going to look at it from a more realistic point of view that also acknowledges that what games are capable of can be dependent on their own game engine and server structure and so at best the devs here have a concept they can pull inspiration from and nothing more (cause Blizz sure as hell ain't gonna share technical secrets, even if they are applicable to this game's design).

That being said, what you're seeing with the current design of glamour is likely is a result of a difference in philosophies towards gear collection for glamour - the developers are basically of the mind that it's okay to throw out all but maybe the really tough to get stuff if you're not going to be using it right away, and just to go back and acquire it later when you want it again. A good amount of one-time only stuff can already go in the armoire or be repurchased for cheap at one of the NPCs designated to sell that stuff (Calamity Salvager and the other one next to them for holiday stuff).

Following the above kind of approach, the impact of glam on inventory is definitely manageable. It only really becomes a problem when players start hoarding every single item they think they might want to glamour maybe in the future. Add in the tendency to hold on to more crafting materials than you actually need to keep around, solely for the convenience of not having to gather just what you need closer to when you need it...well that's a playstyle issue running up against current limitations, and at least part of that responsibility lies on the player.

That all being said...one of the fan translations of the live letter did note that Yoshi-P mentioned major changes coming to the glamour system and that they'd reveal more info once it was more finalized, so changes are coming.

Just not fast enough for some of you impatient folk.

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Originally Posted by Naunet

Yoshi has repeatedly stated that he's looked to WoW as guidance for designing an accessible game. Which is funny, because they seem to have ignored many of the best parts.

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Like what? what are these best parts you speak of.

Like the bank and UI modding. FFXIV retainer inventory and a lot of the UI design are so convoluted it's like they were betting who can make the most 1980-like system when they wrote the code.

what UI mods do u mean exactly ? :P the ones that heal a person by clicking on his name without changing ur current target ? :P or what route to take for quests? :P thats rather unnecessary in FFXIV u can port everywhere , and be everywhere in the world in 5 min :P

UI Modding should only be a visual thing and not playing the game for you^^

ui mod's in wow were great when you couldn't configure Blizzards UI hardly at all , wich isnt the case now.

FFXIV UI is good enough as it is.

The only thing i want form the UI , is that i want to be able to put more tabs on a 2nd chat box :P instead of only being able to grad a tab out from the main chat box ^^

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Originally Posted by Blood-Aki

Like what? what are these best parts you speak of.

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Better inventory management and banking system. UI design that doesn't over-rely on sub-menus. Currencies in a currency tab. The ability to pre-save transmog outfits. The transmog library itself. Very large, detailed zones that don't stymie you with invisible walls. The ability to mail instantly to your alts. To name a few.

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Originally Posted by Berethos

You do know that WoW didn't get its glamour log until mid-2016, right? They haven't even had it a year.

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And tons of other games have had the same kind of feature for years - even before FFXIV re-released. This is not some brand new idea. We're not "impatient" for being frustrated at SE being tone deaf for 3 expacs.

More interested in housing than the job changes right now. My fc has been waiting for it so we can (attempt) to get our large in shirogane or somewhere else that opens.

That being said, I'm liking the way the changes are sounding even with the buffs and nerfs but we shall see how it all works out.

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Originally Posted by Naunet

Better inventory management and banking system. UI design that doesn't over-rely on sub-menus. Currencies in a currency tab. The ability to pre-save transmog outfits. The transmog library itself. Very large, detailed zones that don't stymie you with invisible walls. The ability to mail instantly to your alts. To name a few.

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None of those are best parts, they are just what you think may help you more. they are very minimal.

They are what YOU think are best, so that did not answer my question.

UI preference is completely subjective. I like the UI in FFXIV and hate it in WoW.

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Originally Posted by Blood-Aki

None of those are best parts, they are just what you think may help you more. they are very minimal.

They are what YOU think are best, so that did not answer my question.

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Best is subjective. So yes. I did answer your question. Many of the things I mention are highly demanded in the community - see the 60+ page thread on inventory issues.

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Originally Posted by Naunet

Best is subjective. So yes. I did answer your question. Many of the things I mention are highly demanded in the community - see the 60+ page thread on inventory issues.

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I don't have inventory issues, Nor do a large majority of people who don't hoard every crafting item in existence and i like FFXIV UI a lot more.

SO no, you didn't, in fact i would argue they are the WORST parts, Perhaps i have to teach you how opinions work?

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Originally Posted by Dualgunner

1) Are you taking into account the glitch people have apparently been exploiting, buffing their numbers out the wazoo? Galvuu reported 3.4k without and 3.8k with iirc.
2) How so? A .75% rDPS increase *if* all the others jobs are physical and *if* all are in range when popped? Trick Attack shits on Embolden. Hell I'd say BL shits on Embolden.
3) Brings with it the idea that healers can be lazy/overreliance on RDM's rez to the point that I've seen pug healers neglect healing entirely cuz "Oh the RDM can just pick them up, I'll keep dpsing"
4) Sure. When not using point 3.
5) I know! Reminds me of BLM 2.x, I loved how simple and unbound to timers it was back then.

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1) Why wouldn't we? If people are exploiting a glitch in the design, the devs need to address it, which would technically nerf RDM's damage output. You cannot handwave a glitch people are actively utilizing to increase their damage.
2) Utility is now exclusively damage buffs. The fact Red Mage has one in addition to Verraise and Vercure only emphasises the enormous versatility the job offers relatively to its counterparts.
3) You do not balance jobs around bad players. If healers are being lazy about raises, you kick them. On the flip side, I had seen and heard many Red Mages purposely letting a party wipe because they didn't want to waste mana on non-DPS abilities.

The point people are making is Red Mage lacks major drawbacks for what it offers. Ninja is getting a slight nerf. Pointing it actually hurts your argument. Regardless, I would prefer they start with buffs to the other casters, however as stated earlier, there is only so many buffs you can do before power creep occurs. Their fear of nerfing jobs led to Bard and Machinist pushing out the casters when Creator rolled around.

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Originally Posted by Naunet

Best is subjective. So yes. I did answer your question. Many of the things I mention are highly demanded in the community - see the 60+ page thread on inventory issues.

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Sorry, I'd have to agree with Blood-Aki. You said they should be taking the "best things from WoW" and then listed things that are completely subjective. You may think they are the "best" but objectively they haven't been proven to be so.

Why should SE change anything due to someone's subjective opinion?

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Originally Posted by VanilleFang

Sorry, I'd have to agree with Blood-Aki. You said they should be taking the "best things from WoW" and then listed things that are completely subjective. You may think they are the "best" but objectively they haven't been proven to be so.

Why should SE change anything due to someone's subjective opinion?

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Literally what people want in a video game is subjective. Arguing this is pointless. Goes the other way, too: what YOU think is best is not necessarily best in other people's eyes.

As for inventory issues... if you don't think it's a problem, take a look at the 60+ page thread on it with hundreds of likes.

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Originally Posted by VanilleFang

UI preference is completely subjective. I like the UI in FFXIV and hate it in WoW.

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The thing is that if you hate WoW's UI you're free to change it, they give you the means to do it.

If you hate FFXIV's, tough luck, because add-on support is never gonna happen.

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Originally Posted by Khemorex

what UI mods do u mean exactly ?

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• Bag integration. I have a 1440p screen, let me see the whole inventory at once instead of having to click on tabs.
• UI mods can even store information. Such as remember all my retainer inventory, retainer gear, market listing etc on my local hard disk and be able to answer things like "hey did I have this listed on the market" regardless of where my character is.
• Better crafting log. Recursive shopping list. Remembering all my retainer inventory from the last time I accessed my retainers so I don't have to right click each material just to check how many of each mat I have. Clicking once into a mat to go to its crafting page instead of two clicks.
• Extra pop-up hotbars for seldomly used things. Like holding down the "~" key pops up a wheel-shape hotbar for my gearsets, instead of taking up one of the only 8 hotbars.
• Proper flying combat text. Shut out other people's damage numbers. Display only my misses in bigger red font, etc.
• Separate my buff and debuff displays into two UI frames so I can place them at different places.
• Customized teleport list, pinning as many destinations as I want.
• In-game memo pad.

The possibilities are endless. UI mods are not just about combat. FFXIV is not good enough. People are just used to its much lower standard, or have never really experienced the better UI mods in other games (such as in WoW) and don't know how life can be many times better than the FFXIV UI.

Unless, of course, you think all of the above are "playing the game for you ^^" and should not be allowed, then I guess there's nothing to discuss and mods are evil.

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Originally Posted by Naunet

Better inventory management and banking system. UI design that doesn't over-rely on sub-menus. Currencies in a currency tab. The ability to pre-save transmog outfits. The transmog library itself. Very large,detailed zones that don't stymie you with invisible walls. The ability to mail instantly to your alts. To name a few.



And tons of other games have had the same kind of feature for years - even before FFXIV re-released. This is not some brand new idea. We're not "impatient" for being frustrated at SE being tone deaf for 3 expacs.

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This, I may not have an exact date but a major point was missed.

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Originally Posted by Berethos

That being said, what you're seeing with the current design of glamour is likely is a result of a difference in philosophies towards gear collection for glamour - the developers are basically of the mind that it's okay to throw out all but maybe the really tough to get stuff if you're not going to be using it right away, and just to go back and acquire it later when you want it again. A good amount of one-time only stuff can already go in the armoire or be repurchased for cheap at one of the NPCs designated to sell that stuff (Calamity Salvager and the other one next to them for holiday stuff).

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No it cannot, there is lots of things that are not at the salavge NPC or armoire that needs to be. Also we should have a housing NPCs for the salager and that holiday one. I can't even rebuy event stuff that I was not able to take part in the game, but bought off mog station.

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Originally Posted by Naunet

Literally what people want in a video game is subjective. Arguing this is pointless. Goes the other way, too: what YOU think is best is not necessarily best in other people's eyes.

As for inventory issues... if you don't think it's a problem, take a look at the 60+ page thread on it with hundreds of likes.

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69 pages with 175 likes currently, I know I have not been here for long but, I have not seen a thread with that many. Really shocked how representatives can reply to threads with much smaller likes and post count. Item management is very poor, if they can't let you transfer items between retainers, then they need new servers or a different item management system.

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Originally Posted by Blood-Aki

I don't have inventory issues, Nor do a large majority of people who don't hoard every crafting item in existence and i like FFXIV UI a lot more.

SO no, you didn't, in fact i would argue they are the WORST parts, Perhaps i have to teach you how opinions work?

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"I don't have inventory issues so no one else does."
Alright Aki. Game has hundred's of items on here, people use glamour and
craft and use old gear for running things. Inventory space is a definite issue.
SE won't do crap about it, stead they give us the tired excuse of issues of "server limitations"
or whatever, but meanwhile, we can shell out RL money to "increase space". So I don't buy it.
Literally and Pun intended lol. Inventory space needs a fix, all there is to it.

Hopefully the Glamour rehaul can help with a bit of it.

Honestly at this point I'm just sick of the 'server limitations' excuse. How much money do we have to throw at you? I mean, ffs, this is a multi-million dollar revenue source for Square.

I don't blame the developers, I blame Square Enix for holding the purse strings so tightly so that they can use the money we put into this game to fund other games or projects. Its crap.

Wonder why everyone wants mods so that the game can play itself. I've never understood that at all. :/

I'm not hopeful about the BLM changes

Triple cast CD timer is great but lowering the recast time for fire iv and blizzard iv *yawn*

Foul MP requirement removed *yawn*

Just give fire IV it's original potency back :/ or lower the cast time and not just the recast time that small .2 seconds because as it stands if stuff moves dps is gone lol I don't feel like SE will ever actually get it right with BLM they started off good changing that how that enochain mess worked but kind of veered off after that..

MCH needs potency boost to its combos not the overload thing like I don't understand the blowing up turret thing and not getting it back for 20 something seconds lol

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Originally Posted by Aomine1992

I'm not hopeful about the BLM changes

Triple cast CD timer is great but lowering the recast time for fire iv and blizzard iv *yawn*

Foul MP requirement removed *yawn*

Just give fire IV it's original potency back :/ or lower the cast time and not just the recast time that small .2 seconds because as it stands if stuff moves dps is gone lol I don't feel like SE will ever actually get it right with BLM they started off good changing that how that enochain mess worked but kind of veered off after that..

MCH needs potency boost to its combos not the overload thing like I don't understand the blowing up turret thing and not getting it back for 20 something seconds lol

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I am pretty sure they mean cast time, having those values for RECAST makes no sense.

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Originally Posted by Blood-Aki

Perhaps you should pay attention to the context of that post instead of spamming your quote button without reading it. There is a reason i said it like that, as i was trying to teach the poor guy how opinions and subjectives work. Which you also fail to understand it seems.

Also i have a whole set of glamours, ones that i actually use and will want to keep, quite a few sets, still do not have space issues, This is why i said HOARDERS, you know, people who refuse to toss anything away because it might see a use, those are the people who have inventory issues. Never bought any additional retainers Nor do i ever plan to, cause it's not needed. i'm not against them adding more space if they can, and i know to well how they give excuses, but i'll see very little use out of and others who don't hoard.

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How are you still on these forums when all your posts are so aggressive?

BTW, my friend has to use alts as a crafter because the space isn't enough.
CUL for example, has too much crap going on. He pays for retainers also.
This teeny tiny 140 cap isn't enough when you have a dozen jobs and crafting.

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Originally Posted by Blood-Aki

Also i have a whole set of glamours, ones that i actually use and will want to keep, quite a few sets, still do not have space issues

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You have one combat job at level 50 - at least on the character you're posting as. Of COURSE you're not going to experience inventory problems as intensely as other people who are saving armors for glamour on potentially 15 different combat jobs (plus all the DoH/DoL jobs). That in no way makes us hoarders.

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Originally Posted by Naunet

You have one combat job at level 50 - at least on the character you're posting as. Of COURSE you're not going to experience inventory problems as intensely as other people who are saving armors for glamour on potentially 15 different combat jobs (plus all the DoH/DoL jobs). That in no way makes us hoarders.

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If only you too posted on a character with more than one job at 50....

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Originally Posted by Kukajoo

"The system on Glamour will see a huge look into, and will change because Yoshida is looking into implementing a new system and function to it, and it's working with the App feature. Glamour log is an ABSOLUTE possibility. Yoshida will talk about it once everything is confirmed and stablized. More details in the future."
https://68.media.tumblr.com/2d37144f...ko1_r1_540.gif

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It's happening. It's finally happening.
https://media.giphy.com/media/27ooLubbh0pG/giphy.gif
(Also, does this come with unrestricted glamour? Please tell me it does.)

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Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth

If only you too posted on a character with more than one job at 50....

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Better? :P Not that it matters, as my point remains.

I prefer how Caluun looks in the head shot than my main, though. xD

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Originally Posted by Naunet

Better? :P Not that it matters, as my point remains.

I prefer how Caluun looks in the head shot than my main, though. xD

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All I'm sayin is if your gonna call people out on things, make sure you arent doing that yourself.

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Originally Posted by Blood-Aki

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Cut down on the holier-than-thou patronizing, and maybe you'll have a hope of holding a reasonable conversation.

So back to the thread...

I sure hope SE doesn't think a "glamour history" (presuming it means some kind of record of recent glamours) fulfills what we've been asking for!

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Originally Posted by Naunet

So back to the thread...

I sure hope SE doesn't think a "glamour history" (presuming it means some kind of record of recent glamours) fulfills what we've been asking for!

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I mean, depending on how they implement it, and whether or not its a translation thing, it might be exactly what you are looking for.

Continuing on the inventory tangent, I'd like to point out a couple of things people routinely seem to overlook, misunderstand, or have biased opinions about.

(1) There is absolutely no space problem. I level every DoH / DoL job concurrently while maintaining three combat classes (albeit only one at level 70) and a Glamour set for my main; I have oodles of inventory space and Retainer space. Does that mean nobody has inventory issues? Of course not - but it does mean that inventory issues generally arise from "pathological" use cases where people are utilizing far more space than is necessary / intended for general play. That's the metric by which SE is going to assess space, and it's the one we should keep in mind.

(2) There IS an inventory management problem, which is what I think SE should really focus on fixing. Consider a few of the glaring lacks below:

• No robust tools for sorting or finding specific items within one's inventory.
• Too many currency-style items (Gysahl greens, Dark Matter, Glamour Prisms, Beast Tribe currencies, Tokens from more or less any Raid / EX Primal, etc.) that do not get assigned to a currency tab of some sort.
• Unnecessary splitting of various items, such as Dark Matter being tiered or Glamour Prisms being broken out by DoH class.
• Clumsy item retrieval for quest turn-ins (Key Items, in particular, should be completely automatic).
• Lack of a Glamour log (and, yes, for a game that already had Log-style setups for Crafting / Gathering / pre-50 Hunts, this was absolutely inexcusable).
• A pathetically poor implementation of the Armoire, which encourages people to mix items they might actually use with items they just want to hang on to for fear of not being able to acquire them again.

There are surely other problems as well; these were just off the top of my head. All of these, viewed properly, are inventory management issues, not inventory space issues. Addressing them would certainly free up some inventory space, but primarily it would make FFXIV more playable and accessible - a result that is far more likely to draw attention from the development team. On the other hand, treating them as space issues and doubling or tripling our inventory space wouldn't improve XIV's playability at all; it would arguably make it worse. Simply keeping track of all the space we had, were we to use most of it, would be a nightmare.

Unfortunately, based on the LIVE Letter (to draw back to the original topic), it would seem that SE has no designs on really solving these issues. The general feel I got from the entire thing is that, aside from a few job tweaks, the dev team seems content with the state of the game. In my opinion, that is a troubling sign, one that is almost certainly going to cause me to cancel my subscription as soon as my girlfriend loses interest in the game. But, to each their own; I can't speak for anyone but myself here.

/isearch helps with finding items. its pretty potent IMO.

As for handing over items for quests isntead of it just doing it for you. Devs commented on that, it was an immersion thing, done deliberately.

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Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth

/isearch helps with finding items. its pretty potent IMO.

As for handing over items for quests isntead of it just doing it for you. Devs commented on that, it was an immersion thing, done deliberately.

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The item search functionality, from what I recall, identifies what general inventory area something's in (Retainer, whatnot), but there's a lot of space within those (especially if people seeking more inventory space have their way with things). Searching through seven inventory grids in the Retainer, even with the larger viewstyle, takes time.

As for your other point, keep in mind when reading the following that I'm being critical of the XIV development team and its decisions, not you; I'm aware it comes off as somewhat harsh, and don't want you to feel attacked =)

Just because something was done deliberately doesn't mean it's a good idea. The atrocious clipping we see on virtually any longer hairstyle was an intentional decision, too, and it still sucks. To be sure, in general, it's not a major issue, but man does it get irritating when doing things like Ixal quest turn-ins. I think it makes sense for handling certain non-Key items (for instance, it wouldn't be good if you went to turn in a Grand Company item and had it yank a piece of gear you're using out of your Armoire, or use a NQ version when you wanted to use a high-quality version), but for single-purpose quest items like the Ixal stuff, or KIs? Yeah, no. FFXIV isn't terribly immersive as-is; creating inconvenient systems (without even an option to toggle the behaviour) to add some slight subjective boost to it is bad design.

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Originally Posted by Vhailor

(2) There IS an inventory management problem, which is what I think SE should really focus on fixing. Consider a few of the glaring lacks below:

• No robust tools for sorting or finding specific items within one's inventory.
• Too many currency-style items (Gysahl greens, Dark Matter, Glamour Prisms, Beast Tribe currencies, Tokens from more or less any Raid / EX Primal, etc.) that do not get assigned to a currency tab of some sort.
• Unnecessary splitting of various items, such as Dark Matter being tiered or Glamour Prisms being broken out by DoH class.
• Clumsy item retrieval for quest turn-ins (Key Items, in particular, should be completely automatic).
• Lack of a Glamour log (and, yes, for a game that already had Log-style setups for Crafting / Gathering / pre-50 Hunts, this was absolutely inexcusable).
• A pathetically poor implementation of the Armoire, which encourages people to mix items they might actually use with items they just want to hang on to for fear of not being able to acquire them again.

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This has been beaten to death in another thread.

a) Sorting and finding: We don't have it because it puts additional load on the servers. What is evident is that we can search our character and our retainers, so therefor the retainers must exist as active "players" in the market, and that's how we get real time notifications, but sometimes the market becomes unsearchable. What can alleviate part of this is by caching the contents of the retainer in the client without polling the retainers in real time. Anything that we can store stuff in, needs to be searchable at any time, but just because we are trying to find something, if it's not actually open (eg a housing chest, the armoire, the retainer's inventory) then there is no harm in caching this.

b) Too many currency-style items - Indeed, there is no need for this, and likewise there are a bunch of items that drop from FATE's that are used in beast quests as a type of currency, but only when that quest is available. If SE wants to fix one of the largest sources of inventory bloat, there are two quick and painless ways of doing it
- Create a "money belt" that you can click "clean up inventory" and it migrates all currency items to the belt, making them untradeable/unable to be sold on the market. I'm not sure how many people even care to sell these things but it seems the only purpose for taking up inventory space is to do that.
- Put a currency conversion market into the game. Go to this marketboard/NPC, list the currencies of all the beast tribe currencies (except the crafting Ixali/Moogles) and items used by those tribes, No gil, mgp, GC/Hunt seals, or tomes conversion. Also include a "rare/obsolete" list which will allow players to dump items from V1.0, expired events, expired quests, failed beast tribe crafting NQ, trash items from dungeons, old tomestones, and other seasonal things that players might have in their inventory as a result of stopping mid-quest and coming back months later after the quest is no longer available. Simply put, let players dump all their currencies they aren't using into this "market" at 1:1, and allow other players to buy them with other beast tribe currencies. "Selling 99 (tribe), wants 99 (other tribe)"

c) Unnecessary splitting - I get the idea behind it, but why both a "grade" and a "class" split for dark matter, prisms, and even materia/demimateria. Some of these splits result in excessive inventory bloat, instead of players using the items, they just sit around until there is something to use them on, sometimes never. Instead of having all this unnecessary stuff sitting around, simplify it. For materia/demimateria, just create "Battlecraft" and "Fieldcraft", and with materia when you use it, select which attribute you want to strenghten (and grey out attributes that this item can't benefit from.) That eliminates an entire level of PEBKAC.

d) Clumsy item retrieval - I'd really like to see a return to manually having to loot things, it's largely forgotten about to save having to draw art assets for "dropped on floor" animations. Because what you could do in these cases was drop things from your inventory if you really wanted these, and others could then pick up those loot drops. In FFXIV, and most WoW-like inventory systems where all the inventory icons for one kind of item look identical, you have no time to decide if that item is something you want, so you just 'greed' everything or 'pass' everything to avoid filling your inventory with items you don't want. Key-items, or items that are only usable with one NPC should be a separate inventory, and those items should disappear once the quest is completed or canceled. There should be a button to just "hand everything in" rather than having to right click on each space, or click and drag everything from key inventory to the spaces.

d) Glamour Log, lack thereof - It's obviously something everyone wants in some shape, but few have agreed on what exactly it should look like. In one form it simply destroys the item, making it irretrievable, which also means every time you want gear pieces for a different job, you need to go find those pieces. But that allows you to "log everything." Another form would be like an extended armoire which works like a collection book (think Wonderous Tails, except instead of dungeons, you have gear) that finding 5 left-hand items of from one set unlocks the lefthand set for all jobs/classes for glamour. Original gear deposited into the "book" can not be retrieved again. An even easier application of this is to just log every item you've ever received as a dungeon drop or item purchase as glamour-able. Some people want the gear to be retrievable after being turned into glamour, some do not. There's also the issue of where if an item can be pulled back out, then people might find an exploit to sell the items into the market or RMT.

e) The Armoire and the Calamaty Scavanger - Thus far are are poor implementations. The Armoire should allow all "blue" and "purple" gear to be dropped into it, as well as all level-1 costumes and event costumes.

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Originally Posted by KisaiTenshi

a) Sorting and finding: ...by caching the contents of the retainer in the client without polling the retainers in real time...

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The lack of client side caching is one of the biggest disappointments of the FFXIV UI, and lack of an UI modding platform. Not only just searching, with modding it's even possible to do very advanced sorting or custom grouped sorting (like always putting gear of the same set together) and other kind of item grouping. An abstract layer of consolidated inventory management.

Even without modding, there's such a big opportunity for local caching that could have been done on the PC. But because PS3/4, it's a no-no god-forbidden sin.

I wish the devs would think hard about allowing QoL differences between PS4 and PC versions in terms of UI features.