Suggestions for features come next expansion

My wish list for improvements/features for the game

For a lot of these I suspect now is not too early to be listing for the 2021 expansion, to give devs time to consider and start working towards implementing them.

1) DX12. We had DX9 and 11 overlapped for a while, I think they need to move forward with 11/12 (for PS4/PS5)

2) Spanish localization. Huge market there, why isn't it a reality yet? Do they think that market is less inclined to pay subs compared to, say, the German playerbase?

3) Partner with one of the reputable ping-reducing outfits and make available to Aus/NZ subscribers for free. Many Aussies I know already use one of these services, and the improvements, while minor are some help; and SE doing this would show them some love and attention.

4) Upgrade visual quality/polygons for some ARR NPC armor sets. It's not an ideal 1st impression for new players to be staring at, say, a lvl 5 Wood Wailer whose belt looks like it was crafted by an Opo-opo. I know they can't bring everything up to the quality of some of the more recent armor/glamour, but making a good impression on ppl new to the game is obviously of paramount importance (hence the reason for ARR/ARR+ compression coming in 5.3)

5) Insure the game catalogs what class(es) a character has cleared specific dungeons and raids with and ignore ilvl if they queue for a roulette with an ilvl currently set below the threshold for ones they have done before on that class with that character. Ilvl cheesing will otherwise continue to ruin the game for leveling players who need things like the Ivalice raid series etc.

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6) Add a feature where if player has a pc with abundance of processor cores, you can enable additional coding to improve hair dynamics/reduce clipping. Video drivers are already doing what they can in this regard. The rest of the game doesn't stress CPU's all that much or leverage very many cores. Putting something like cores 5/6 to work on getting hair that properly slides over shields and shoulderpads/etc will help visually, and the processor companies will also likely help and promote as that helps them sell more powerful processors.

I would be happy with an HD overhaul. World of Tanks have done it several times and PS3 support has been dropped. There's no need to keep all armor pieces at low res.

support for DX9 is gone.

the game will never get an "HD overhaul".

they would like to do spanish localization/voiceovers, but they can't find a partner willing to keep up with the constant amount of work the comes with doing the game at the speed/quality the devs demand.

they will never acknowledge that you "need" a VPN to play the game for some people.

the game will always be catered to min pc specs.

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Originally Posted by DrWho2010

the game will always be catered to min pc specs.

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They dropped PS3 support for FFXIV in 2017. It's time to stop making PS3 graphics now that the PS4 will be obsolete within this year.

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Originally Posted by Edax

They dropped PS3 support for FFXIV in 2017. It's time to stop making PS3 graphics now that the PS4 will be obsolete within this year.

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that's not your decision to make?

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Originally Posted by DrWho2010

that's not your decision to make?

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It's thread on suggestions for the next expansion, I absolutely have the right to make the decision to offer a suggestion. And pointing out that PS3 graphics are out of the date isn't that scandalous.

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Originally Posted by DrWho2010

the game will never get an "HD overhaul".

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that's not your decision to make?

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Originally Posted by DrWho2010

the game will always be catered to min pc specs.

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Of course, but they are always on the lookout for ways to make the game look and run better and leveraging current multi-core CPU's is one approach that need not impact the game running on low end PC's

It's possible that if we ever get to a place where the shards re-merge with the source somehow they may do a major graphic and otherwise overhaul. If it happened, it would be a good spot story-wise for them to potentially jump to a new engine and re-work quite a bit. Debatable if that will happen, it may be cheaper for them to build out a whole new MMO from the ground up than do that, but that's where I'd put my money on it happening if it does.

As for my wishlist for next expansion...

1) I'd really, really, like to see more housing slots inside and outside. I get why it can be a loading issue, I really do, but it's frustrating when you have to pull things from your designs because you don't have the slots for what you want to achieve.

2) Related to above, I'd like to see an overhaul of housing in general. I understand what they were aiming for with the wards, and that at the time housing was implemented it wasn't possible to go as far as was desired, but I am almighty tired of seeing the constant whining and complaining about people who have multiple houses and housing shortages on some servers. I understand the irritation, but please at the very least can we get upgradeable apartments and indoor gardens or something?

3) Also housing related (I have a theme going here), I would kill for glamour sets for indoor and outdoor. For example, Urianger's house skin for outside, and an inside skin to make the interior what his house interior is. I would also kill for a slot to let you put down seasonal effects in your yard as a kind of yard skin. Snow, autumn leaves, spring blossoms, etc. Just have it blanket the whole yard. We can pretend we clean off the stuff in it.

4) Glamour wise, I'd like to see the gender locks removed. An often requested thing, especially lately, but still.

5) I'd like to see housing only functions (airships, submarines, gardening, etc.) be put out into the world at large for everyone to use. Set them up as chocobo stables at Bentbranch, A mine out by Black Brush, a greenhouse at the Botanist's guild, airships in Ishgard, submarines in Limsa, that sort of thing. It would be trivial to set up a house workshop to have a shortcut teleport to get to those places without having to travel to the location first. That would keep the workshop special without cutting people off from things.

6) Please, please, please, please can we have shared storage with our alts? Or the ability to mogmail them? Or something? I know back in the day that option was cut off to try and deal with RMT, but it's not phasing those guys at all, and it's extremely inconvenient getting items to alts otherwise.

That's the bulk of my wishlist.

I would like a calander to keep up with in character plans and thoughts, I hide option to hide every quest that Does not have anything unlockable with it.

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Originally Posted by LolitaBansheeMeru

I would like a calander to keep up with in character plans and thoughts, I hide option to hide every quest that Does not have anything unlockable with it.

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Thats in the companion app iirc. Guess that won't come ingame as it would make the app function obsolete.


I'd love to see a graphics improvement too when PS5 support (likely?) is official. I honestly wouldn't mind, them breaking the patch cycle to work on that. Even if it means 6-9 months only tidbits of content.

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Originally Posted by DrWho2010

sthey would like to do spanish localization/voiceovers, but they can't find a partner willing to keep up with the constant amount of work the comes with doing the game at the speed/quality the devs demand.

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They are hands down the best at localisation for MMOs. You'd think it's actually an English game.

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Originally Posted by DrWho2010

they will never acknowledge that you "need" a VPN to play the game for some people.

the game will always be catered to min pc specs.

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That's unfair. If a VPN fixes your issues then it's a routing issue and that's down to you ISP/country's internet infrastructure. This proves it's not an SE issue.

The game will be limited due to console because they have outdated, or quickly outdated, technology in them that has to last for 10 years or so.

SE dont want to have a two-tier experience so it will always be limited by whatever the limits of the consoles du jour.

It wasn't PS3 limitations, it was just PS limitations. And maybe XBox soon.

fyi the base PS4 is higher spec than min pc reqs for the game. so no it's not because of consoles.

None of these will be implemented. A new mmo needs to be made for these to be put in, unfortunately. Especially for graphics upgrades.

A repair all in armoury chest option would be nice.

Wondrous Tails to offer retry point when you queue up for a roulette as the adventurer in need.

Mounts for healers as they are now becoming the adventurer in need more often after the changes.

More stones for completing Fates with a max level job.

I agree with most of your post. We certainly need new HD textures, if nothing else, especially on armour and equipment because the game was showing its age even back in 2013 - They downgraded the graphics from 1.x, only for systems to catch up to that level of processing power by the time ARR came out, i never understood that - Yes, MMOs are typically designed with lower settings in mind so that the highest possible ammount of people can play it...But come on, some of this games textures look awful if you put them to scrutiny

Spanish localisation...I doubt that's going to happen, to be honest. This game has over 6 years of content in it now, it'll take the better part of 2-3 years to translate it for what is arguably only a small side market when other languages are in higher demand, such as Chinese or Russian.

DX12 is certainly something i'd like to see, but i doubt we'll see it any time soon. I think someone asked about this in the past a good year or two ago, and i think they wanted to focus more on higher res (4k and 8k) support, ultrawide support, and multi-display support more than DX12 but its certainly something that has to be in the back of their minds, surely? Still, i doubt we'll see it until 7.0 at least.

Agreed about the hair thing - Im sure it'd only take them to ask and Nvidia will jump on board with them to implement hair works, if they wanted.

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Originally Posted by DrWho2010

fyi the base PS4 is higher spec than min pc reqs for the game. so no it's not because of consoles.

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How many people actually play the bare minimum.

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Originally Posted by Saccharin

How many people actually play the bare minimum.

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they're out there so as long as they want people to experience the game it will encompass that.

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Originally Posted by Saccharin

How many people actually play the bare minimum.

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I'm not sure what the minimum is, but I probably am running close to it, running between 10-20 FPS in game.

core i5-4440 3.10ghz
geforce gt 720
12 gb ram

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Originally Posted by Dagget

2) Spanish localization. Huge market there, why isn't it a reality yet? Do they think that market is less inclined to pay subs compared to, say, the German playerbase?

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A Spanish localization would be very nice indeed. That said, Square Enix doesn't seem to be reinvesting FFXIV revenue back into the game. If a Spanish localization was profitable, you'd think that there would already be one.

The localization and advertising would probably be the most expensive aspects of a Spanish FFXIV launch. Given the sheer amount of text in the current game (given the hundreds of thousands of strings for items, abilities, quest text, NPC dialogue, etc), it might have to be like the Chinese FFXIV launch where the localization is years behind current content. In that case, I can see why a Spanish localization wouldn't happen.

Hmm, expansion...

My top wishes are

- Graphic Overhaul and Gameplay Overhaul with FF14 moving to PS5, stopping PS4 Support with everyone who has it now for PS4 switching for free to the PS5 version to make the next gen jump as smooth n quickly done as possible, PS5 will be downward compatible to PS4 n rumors say even up to PS2 due to emulation and together with this as well a map design overhall, making maps bigger, fusing smaller maps together to remove loading times completely basically and bring all old content maps to same gameplay quality as the other since Heavensward on, letting us fly n ARR maps, that get reworked and incredased in size and adding more explorable maps on the continents, the amount of explorable maps this game has after all this time is TINY, compared to other MMORPGs like GW2 for example, that provides far far far more explorable maps, which feel also all much more full of live design wise and like dead fire n forget maps likein FF14 has them constantly only, that feel soulless
If FF14 would ever get to look like FF7Remeke, by using its far superior engine for the game design, gosh, that would be a dream even I can't imagine for myself, how awesome FF14 would look like under that graphic monster that this engine is, that truly shows us with FF14 the best most truest poweer of what the PS4 is capable of, with the PS5 standing right before us, coming the end of this year surpassing that tenfold

Old content of FF14, like ARR to partwise HW still looks today like being made for PS3 at its best peak time of performance, simply said, outdated. FF14 needs a HD Remaster that brings the whole game and all of its content onto the same level of game design quality, as if it would be only one single huge game that has been created in 1 go and not like in so far 4 steps within the last decade n longer of time.
PS4 is already holding the game back to be able to show its full potential and do I say as PS4 player who started the game on PS4. By the time 6.0 comes, is the PS5 already long out I guess and many people will switch to it quickly due to the downward compability.Even if SE doesn't stop quickly the PS4 support, that downward compability sure does help in speeding things up this time for everyone.

- Massive improval on endgame content, reaching out quick for Max Level 100 and stopping the cap increase then and focus they game more on endgame content and character progression without raising anymore the Level Cap like a never ending carrot chase. As part of that add a Talent System for horizontal character progression, add final Job Improvements/Changes to Master Jobs as final Job Tiers, advanced last versions of what we have now, example > Samurais turning into Shogun's, a higher ranked, far more experienced version of a simple samurai.

- Implementation of long wished Gold Saucer Minigames like Blitzball, Snowboarding, Motorcycle Ride ect to get it a bit closer to the FF7 original and providing with Blitzball a first team based Minigame hopefully designed after the FFX gameplay, not the worser FFX-2 one that was totally boring n bad.

- Add as playable new Jobs the Necromancer as scythe wielding Melee Healer and Alchemist as ranged slingshot or chain-sickle wielding medium Ranged DPS with magical longranged Homunculus Pet at their side, the Crafter term gets renamed then to Scientist or Witcher/Witch with all the potion, elixier n concoction brewing that would be a nice witcher hommage, despite not letting them end up as demonhunters xD

- add Hunting Grounds as endgame content that are there for playefs just to relax in them, while hunting eitheer solo or as party in Monster Hunter style all kinds of monsters for they valuable loot that can be turned in for all kinds of rewards and gil, to have players as veteran player you want to play in to farm in there, if you are just bored of fates and roulettes and have completed the MSC, waiting for it that the story continues.
Or a new cool 100 stock like dungeon crawler, that is each time you enter, different.
Or like some kind of Lufia Style cave of trial, where your level n gear gets resetted and where you can find unique gear, that exists only ther, which is the only stuff you can keep, when leaving the cave.

- defnetely add alot more faces, hairstyles ect to the game, remove more gender n race locks on hairstyles where it makes sense. Adding more tribes per race and making your choice of the tribe more impactful

- Improval of combat, by making Element and Condition Weaknesses and Resistences meanungful and interesting again, sure, wont work as well for scripted combat instances like trials or raids, but the normal pve game against trash mobs, hunts ect would make alot more fun.

- Huge overhaul of this games terrible inventory system

- Removal of the tomestone garbage system and time limited rewards that exists only to stroke virtual epeens of a minority of FF14 elitists so that they can be the ones who clear savage content for a few months, in BIS gear avaiable to the point, that it immensively slows down all players, which play all jobs in gearing up. I tested it out now, collected each week the ridiculous cap of 450 stones, did each weak raids ect... And for what all this effort? Just to be able to have BARELY outfitted 3 out of 7 gear types for all of the jobs, before the newest tomestom comes already with much better gear to grind for and having to begon from start onagain with 0 out of 7 being completely max geared. These time and tome limits are absolute nonsense and should be removed hopefully with the next add on that finally ends the Ascian-Saga and begins after all the years a great new one that ends from then on this tomestone crap

The whole reward system of FF14 needs to get for once an overhaul, way too much fire n forget one time rewards, nothing that really encourages players too keep playing, even if you are done with the story already.
All this game has so far is only a seemingly neverending gear hunt with totally stupid n pointless restrictions, just so that active players never are able to gear out all jobs, before the tomestone currency gets replaced n removed for the next one.
And all this effort just for a minority of players, that is only happy with their tiny low lifes, if they can stick others under their noses visually, that they are something better than anyone else, who doesn't wear thd latest best weapon from a savage boss chest, or doesn't wear already best accessoires, while all other get to that ilvl stuff first like felt 3 MONTHS plus later, while having to grind much longer due to having to grind also the time limited tomestone crap n time limited multiple different upgrade items, before you get 1 of your characters/gear types max equpped, that a savage player has eventually done in a few hours to days...

This needs to get equalized. evefy players, regardles if now savage content player or not, should be able to gear out their characters equally fast.

Savage Content players shouldn't be rewarded several months long with a pointless privilege of being the only and fastest best geared playrrs of everyone, because that gives them a tiny unfair advantage over eveyone else eventually not same as much skilled player. Their rewards should become solely and uniques based on glamourd only, visual fluff, but not and game attribute and time efficiency advantages in gearing your jobs all up to BIS and I defintely hope that SE has for 6.0 enough courage to make this improval for the majority of this game, that doesn't play FF14 for savage instance contebt, but actually mainly for fun and this game's good story, while wanting to play all jobs and gettim them all as quickly as possible tp play the game fully any time with any job, without comming into the situation, that you can't do certain game content with tje job you want to play at the moment, because of never being able to gear them up fast enough due to all those time limits everywhere


Wow, now I feel better, that needed to get out finally, the last point, that sounds more like a little rant, than a suggestion, but I carried this with me for a year now

FF14 limits progression way too much. Can unstand this for game balance, but absolutely not at all for character proggresion. Just feels only like a punishment to players, that don't play more n longer FF14, than the typical 0815 casual gamer who plays the game only like twice a week for like 30-40 mins each time.

In a perfect scenario adds SE first more better new gear, when the average players have geared out all 7 gear types with the current existing BIS gear, which need to be obtainable in similar time effort in at least two different ways.

I hope so much the next expansion can fix this situation, but I guess, thats most likely only all wishful thinking by me.

Better class stories.

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Originally Posted by Kaiserdrache

HOLY RUN ON SENTENCE BATMAN

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basically what you're describing is not an expansion it is an entirely new game.

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Originally Posted by linay

I'm not sure what the minimum is, but I probably am running close to it, running between 10-20 FPS in game.

core i5-4440 3.10ghz
geforce gt 720
12 gb ram

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Maybe you should waste some money on actual graphics card, not a pci holder, instead of 12 gb ram that I guess don't even work in dual channel.
4th generations of i5 is more than enough for this game nowadays, even overclocked 3rd generation will be enough. GTX 750 is not even that far away from the GPU PS4 uses, which is downgraded AMD 7xxx HD series. So that's left us with ram issue, but most users who has ddr3 slots don't use less than 3gb anyway. FF 14 is always go heavy on graphics card, in our situation both PS4 one and GTX750 barely do its job. So basically both sides are not capable of higher resolution textures, better anti aliasing and other graphic tweaks.

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Originally Posted by yukiiyuki

Maybe you should waste some money on actual graphics card, not a pci holder, instead of 12 gb ram that I guess don't even work in dual channel.
4th generations of i5 is more than enough for this game nowadays, even overclocked 3rd generation will be enough. GTX 750 is not even that far away from the GPU PS4 uses, which is downgraded AMD 7xxx HD series. So that's left us with ram issue, but most users who has ddr3 slots don't use less than 3gb anyway. FF 14 is always go heavy on graphics card, in our situation both PS4 one and GTX750 barely do its job. So basically both sides are not capable of higher resolution textures, better anti aliasing and other graphic tweaks.

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It's just a premade pc, but so far it's good enough for FFXIV, WoW, and SWTOR. I'll look at my options if and when I start having serious issues with those games. I wouldn't want to spend money now when it's still perfectly usable as it is.

If they want to work on obligatory non-traditional side content next expansion, I'd like for SE to consider overhauling Grand Company Squadrons into serious FF Tactics-style content, where you get to personally lead your squadrons into missions that play out with FFT combat, complete with stories that differ depending on which Grand Company you're in. It'd be a great way to expand on Grand Company lore with your character and squadron playing a direct role in their operations. And really, who doesn't want to lead a squad of Limsan tax collectors-- er, I mean Arcanists into battle?

Squadrons have been abandoned for a whole expansion at this point, and Grand Companies have been on this weird limbo of content that gets updated once per expansion that appear to be for obligatory reasons rather than actually having interesting progression. They've already got FFT mastermind Matsuno back on board as lead writer for the Bozja Citadel story, so why not?

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Originally Posted by linay

It's just a premade pc, but so far it's good enough for FFXIV, WoW, and SWTOR. I'll look at my options if and when I start having serious issues with those games. I wouldn't want to spend money now when it's still perfectly usable as it is.

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Perfectly useable... 10-20 fps. Well, seems like I found a reason why you defened casual stuff from gold soucer. Also, premade PC with 12 gigs of ram and gt720, lul.
About new expansion, we will get same stuff as always nothing will drastically change, but they'll sure find a way to make game even easier for masses.

RTX support ( for example incoming ps5/xbox will be able to handle this )

HDR support

dx12 support

HD textures ( optional [box check] )

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Originally Posted by yukiiyuki

Perfectly useable... 10-20 fps.

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It is. I have yet to be limited by it in combat.

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Originally Posted by linay

It is. I have yet to be limited by it in combat.

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I saw someone brought back the benchmark thread, so I thought I'd take a look at what I posted:

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Originally Posted by linay

performance: standard
score: 2107

I'm glad I don't have to upgrade my PC for at least another 2 years. :D

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Yep, still perfectly usable nearly a year later.

An actual Monk rework instead of saying that they're going to do it and then fixing none of the things people hated about the Stormblood version.

maybe give us that egi glamour they promised from forever instead of silent treatment and plain out stalling/brushing it off

The blue icon with a + sign for post-80 job quests instead of a normal side-quest icon, i keep running into people that missed those quests due to the lack of a distinctive mark.

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Originally Posted by Dagget

2) Spanish localization. Huge market there, why isn't it a reality yet? Do they think that market is less inclined to pay subs compared to, say, the German playerbase?

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This one, honestly, surprises me that it's not already in the game. The North American data centers could get the most use out of it for sure, but it also benefits the European data centers.

Also when it comes to the Australia issue, I wonder if there's enough demand for the game to make even a small data center for Australia and New Zealand? It might even benefit Hawaiian players to connect to that data center instead of the NA one...