FFXIV's technical limitations are beginning to concern me.

THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!!

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Brennus

I agree 100%. I'm a recent WoW refugee, and so far I love the game and intend on playing it as my only MMO for the foreseeable future. However I've been mystified by the clunkiness and unfriendly nature of several aspects of the game's user interface, including the MogStation.

1. It took many many, persistent, and frustrating tries to figure out how to buy the game. I'd started playing way back in mid-2020, except I gave up on the effort to sign on to an existing SE account I'd owned for several years.

---

This here is one of the craziest things with SE. They make it SO HARD TO BUY FROM THEM. And people do want to buy things! SE needs to fix this so much.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Kes13a

THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!!

---

You can be concerned without hyperventilating. C'mon.
I'm hoping for an engine change and/or a time skip come 7.0 . It's band-aid after band-aid with XIV. Inventory space is really bad, the glamour dresser is a poorly thought out system (why do I still have to go to an inn?) and then there is the myriad of windows and tokens you have to wade through in order to get gear. The list goes on.

Don't get me wrong, I find it kinda impressive what they achieved considering what they had to work with but ShB feels like it's being held together with cardboard and string. It's high time SE work on a foundation that isn't either overly ambitious (read: flower pot) or cobbled together within 1.5 years out of necessity.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by DPZ2

with Lord of the Rings Online and Wildstar being the major losses over the last few years.

---

What are you talking about, Lotro is still running lmao They have a new expansion coming out later this year and brand new progression servers that launched late last month. It's not crammed to the gills with people but most servers are fairly populated.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Puremallace

ok ok! We know the Calamity is coming. Put everyone into stasis or pull out the time travel card again. The Barren Wasteland took 5 years to grow back if you look at this MMO's lore.

---

I'm not talking about the seventh, I'm talking about the eighth. It was still a wreck hundreds of years later.

What Lenneth said; the issues you have stated aren't anything to sneeze at. Yoshi P has said he plans to expand things so less of a player q or something.

Now, the real reason everyone is here /flips hair

Me.
The only 3 issues I actually have in FFXIV aren't even listed here:
Lack of hairstyle variety & hairstyles from previous FF games even though they're requested & have been for years- This is from me being spoiled by games like genshin or black desert then coming back to XIV then I notice the issue of how bland the character hairstyles are *(compared to what NPC's have)*
Why do we only have male protagonist outfits/ hairstyles from other FF games & not female ones? (aside from FFXIII)- (but other outfits like Garnets, Terra's or Rinoa's)
Why do small houses have a basement larger than the entire main floor? Why can't we just have an upstairs instead of a basement?

I hate to tell the people claiming the game has a storage issue that the reality is you have a hoarding issue, especially if you have multiple additional retainers.

I have all crafters and gatherers at 80 and have loads of storage left, holding onto every material you might ever need is just poor inventory managment, especially if they only cost pennies.

I’ve noticed fewer system-level changes as time has gone on, but datacenter visit is going to be big. Hopefully we’ll learn of more system level changes during the media tour.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Artemiz

I hate to tell the people claiming the game has a storage issue that the reality is you have a hoarding issue, especially if you have multiple additional retainers.

I have all crafters and gatherers at 80 and have loads of storage left, holding onto every material you might ever need is just poor inventory managment, especially if they only cost pennies.

---

It's not really crafting.

It's glamours. There are a lot of really nice looks, you get only 400 slots in your dresser, but if you want to keep others, many of which can't be gotten again (or gotten easily/cheaply), you have to use up retainer slots and saddlebags. My saddlebags are full, my retainers aren't too bad but give me another expansion...

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by SniperCT

It's not really crafting.

It's glamours. There are a lot of really nice looks, you get only 400 slots in your dresser, but if you want to keep others, many of which can't be gotten again (or gotten easily/cheaply), you have to use up retainer slots and saddlebags. My saddlebags are full, my retainers aren't too bad but give me another expansion...

---

People often moan, like they have in this thread, that storage is an issue because of crafting, that's why I used it as the example. We all like to glamour, 400 spaces isn't the best and just 15 plates is a regular frustration for me, I am currently dressed as a (very poor) Poison Ivy I did as a joke with my Brother earlier and I had to delete a glamour to do it. I would love to have more but we've been told no, for now. So I work with what I've got, it doesn't mean the game is falling apart at the seams which is what this thread is suggesting.