Say something negative about the game

All of the complaints in the past few pages are mostly valid but the core fact remains:

The game doesn't really give in a good incentive to log in anymore.

You can literally log in during the free login campaigns and get caught up.

• Everything is on a rigid release timer, there's little innovation
  
• Job balance is absolutely destroyed due to the 2 minute meta.
  
• Healers are completely boring to play.

The current glamour system is garbage and should be changed making you unlock the skin of an item in your dresser once you get it the first time.

I'd offer two.

1. Placing indoor furnishings is far more difficult than it needs to be. Often, it requires you to force glitch the game in order to properly place an item. The system needs to be redone from the ground up.

2. The game design is overly hostile to players having alts. While it's true a single character can play all jobs, it's also true that it's quite unwieldy to manage all the gear needed for multiple jobs as you level.

But, if you create an alt to address this problem, you have to go through the MSQ all over again as if you were a totally different individual. The progress you've made on your main character isn't reflected on the alt at all. Yet, the game allows you to create multiple alts! But, it's a trap.

Every character you create has to go through the MSQ. This is just terrible design.

If you have completed the MSQ, it should be reflected across your whole account. Your alts should still start at level one, be levelled through the content of the game, and not be required to go through a storyline which spans five expansions. If you want to go through the MSQ again, you could use the New Game feature. There would be nothing lost.

Ignoring all of the typical issues revolving around hroths/viera...

Hrothgar have a case of Hank Hill butt. For big muscled hunks, they sure do have zero muscle in their booties.

The physics programming for cloth-wearers. Anytime there's a knockback/pull-in that cancels my cast or just pushes me around, or just being on AST turns my robes into cardboard.

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Originally Posted by Zebraoracle

Ignoring all of the typical issues revolving around hroths/viera...

Hrothgar have a case of Hank Hill butt. For big muscled hunks, they sure do have zero muscle in their booties.

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To be fair, nobody has a butt in this game. We're all pancakes.

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Originally Posted by Enkidoh

Game doesn't have enough content set in Ancient (pre-Sundering) times - 'Asciantown-Adventure!' Amaurot under the sea, and a floating research facility and it's dirty little secret containment centre underneath aren't enough. I want more Amaurot Gang adventures! :D

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Honestly, I'd be over the moon solely with an Ancient EP - I don't even need the original cast to sell it. Amaurot and Elpis were stunning, the lore is fascinating and the possibilities for stories feels endless. FFXIV does high fantasy incredibly well, and after witnessing the likes of Norvrandt, Mare Lamentorum and Ultima Thule I think they'd be in their element creating brand new settings unrestrained by the constraints of having to fit everything neatly into the boundaries of Hydaelyn.

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Originally Posted by AwesomeJr44

2) There's no good midcore content to comfortably get you from Extreme to Savage unless you're at the beginning of an expansion (referring to easier Savages like P1S)

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I really wish they would put more energy overall into encouraging players into harder content, giving them the education necessary to actually succeed there from earlier on and deconstructing the perception of Savage and the like as this impenetrable bastion of gaming skill that only the top percentage of players can try. They're shooting themselves in the foot by putting the time into developing this content without attempting to up participation, and if they insist that players bored with the game should be turning in that direction, the least they can do is bring it to the fore and make it less of a niche within the game.

The glamour system.

Having to glitch housings item to look good

Lack of teaching people how to play as a tank (1 packers at high levels)

Lack of QoL features that players keep recommending that wont get implemented but are easily done by others. (Please employ these people. They deserve it honestly and we would get them alot faster)

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Originally Posted by Lunaxia

I really wish they would put more energy overall into encouraging players into harder content, giving them the education necessary to actually succeed there from earlier on and deconstructing the perception of Savage and the like as this impenetrable bastion of gaming skill that only the top percentage of players can try. They're shooting themselves in the foot by putting the time into developing this content without attempting to up participation, and if they insist that players bored with the game should be turning in that direction, the least they can do is bring it to the fore and make it less of a niche within the game.

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Where is the game itself perpetuating that idea? That seems to come more from the community. The game puts the unlocks out there. It puts them into a separate Duty Finder for a time, yes, but there doesn't seem to be anything in the game itself that says only the top percentage of players can try it. Maybe there's something they could do with DF on JP servers but, for instance, NA uses PF for that content, so what could the devs do there? If they restrict it so it can only be done in DF then NA would most likely only run with statics and the ability to PUG Savage would either be incredibly limited or die off.

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Originally Posted by AwesomeJr44

There's no good narrative reason to have the story split between Labyrinthos and Thavnair at the beginning of Endwalker, it's only done because the other expansions did it. This wouldn't necessarily be a terrible thing if it wasn't so obvious when it was impacting things.

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Narratively, no, but it's not just because other expansions did it. It's so we don't have a repeat of Stormblood Early Access and everyone getting stuck on the Raubahn instance because the instance servers were overwhelmed and everyone followed a single path in the story.

As to the OP, the game is very alt character and alt job unfriendly. Especially for a game that encourages you to play everything on a single character. If you need to have alts for one reason or another, they can't share in anything from the main character that would make synergy between the two characters easier.

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Originally Posted by TheMightyMollusk

To be fair, nobody has a butt in this game. We're all pancakes.

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WoL skipping leg day is now canon.