What could FF add from other games?

No game is perfect, and all games have their differences that make them unique, but...there are still features that exist in some games that should or could be universal, and help the enjoyment for others.

And I'm not talking about things like combat systems. Adding, for instance, a New World like combat system would mean an entire change to the structure of the game. That's not what I'm talking about. What I am talking about...

From WoW, add real alts. A selling point of FF is that you don't need alts to play all the classes, but from an RP standpoint, sometimes you don't want to be dancing for tips as male Lalafell, but would rather do so as a Miqo'te. And while you can create multiple characters, the game doesn't even want them to interact. You can't send items or even gil between them easily. A real alt system would let you at least pair characters up so that you can share at least some resources between them.

I haven't played enough other games to tell you what else could be brought in, but I'm sure others of you have. I look forward to hearing your suggestions.

From FF titles specifically...I'd like more FF 8 glamours, personally. Weapons and all. Seifer's gunblade would be perfect for Gunbreaker since the job was greatly influenced by his character.

From WoW I'd like to have their transmog system. Think that's about it, honestly. lol

A new game engine.

I'd love to have what ESO has in the form of Personalities. So many people have issues with their favourite races animation, but being able to augment your characters idle/emote set with a Personality just adds an extra layer of customization that feels so right.

WoW's transmog system and SWTOR expanded dye options. Having a glamour catalog rather than having to put items into storage and two-color dyes are both things I'd like to see.

What could we add here from other games?

A transmog/glamour album that unlocks things to use as you obtain the actual item in game or clear specific content.

It might have been declared a logistical or coding nightmare but I feel like all the core starting classes having 2 branches into different roles after 30 like ARC/SMN/SCH would have been to the game's benefit. That style growth can be found in a large number of single player games and also other MMO's

PSO2 NGS character creator/editor. It gives a lot more freedom in the physical dimensions of your character allowing the creation of body types not typically found as player character options in games. The NGS upgrade that came when NGS launched added more slots for decorative accessories and customizations for things like teeth and tongue.

Campaign battles and besieged from FFXI. Campaign battles were open world content where beastmen units would attack outposts in order to claim the region or territory controlling territories offered benefits to players depending on the territories held. Besieged was an event where beastmen armies would actually attack Aht Urgran the main hub area added during it's expansion and it would be on players to assist the NPC's in defending the city. I don't remember the rewards or penalties for winning or losing those events immediately off hand. I found them fun though I know of alot of ppl that complained about besieged being really laggy.

I'd like more hairstyle variety inspired from other games
99% of hairstyles are just flat & board straight

I'd like to see a variety that also looks visually appealing

I agree on the subject of having legit alt characters. We should be able to mail our alts, and have a shared bank of some kind. A lot more things should be unlocked account-wide, such as achievements, mounts, minions, titles, beast tribe rep, currency, etc.

WoW's glamour catalog.

Some damn respect for inventory concerns that doesn't default to removing major reason for leveling a gatherer before looking at all the bloat that makes up how merely redyed gear at the same ilvl (brown Striking tunic vs. otherwise identical green Scouting tunic, etc.) or Materia are handled...

A better graphics engine.

A better physics engine. Barring that, at least a functional Z/height-axis (was removed in ARR). Ideally, go further with it, such as by allowing for certain mechanics to be leapt over, or even having levitate/launch/juggle mechanics.

Certain skills being reducible to VFX without model movement and being therefore castable even in the middle of another animation. (Call them Techniques instead of Weaponskills, Spells, or Abilities, if you like.)

Higher server polling rates, and greater polish by which to remove the wonkily timed outliers among snapshotted skills, delayed effects or effect activation, or skills which, by nature of how they're coded, have less effective duration than they are balanced around.

More data centers. (Oceania's a great start. What about one for East Coast US or, say, Brazil, especially is we ever get Spanish or Portuguese localization?)

Dynamic movement abilities, whereby one can control the destination through mid-animation commands instead of it being entirely snapshotted. (Imagine a Gyoten allowing you to instead charge, to a maximum of 20 yalms, to the far side of your enemy, instead of just the nearest outer edge of its targeting circle.)

Sub-hitboxes on larger units, such as the legs of a colossi (where we instead find ourselves typically swinging at thin air between their 10-yalms-apart legs).

More realistic turning for mobs.

Dynamic/tracked animations, such as would cause a Heavy Shot to actually aim at its target, instead of merely directly at the angle of player facing.

AoE animations going off nearer to their damage application.

Skills that look like cleaves actually cleaving (and exactly as widely as they appear to cleave).

Latency subtraction/recuperation on animation locks.

Better use of uniquely-(or just well-) animated in-game storytelling, as opposed to just cutscenes.

More varied animations and camerawork during cutscenes, as opposed to mostly static shots and generic emotes.

Better support for ground-targeting (cast-on-release).

Targeting schema and/or functional combat macros (with at least the first contextually actionable line therein being queueable).

The ability to click through non-applicable units (based on current filter or queued cast).

(Dynamic/applicable) target snapping for mouse or joystick.

A greater number of available difficulties (though not so rewarding as to make previously irrelevant content, at new difficulties among 4-man content, obligatory in preparation for traditionally upper-level content like 8-mans outside of the weekly tomes grind-loop).

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Naw forget WoW’s transmog system, give me DCUO style system. Where every piece colllected can be used regardless of class/weapon/gender.

Booty slider.

Priorities.

Glamour log Glamour log Glamour log

GW2's dye system.

Archeage's seamless world and diving (or at least the seamless diving, come on man.)

SWTOR's voice acting for every NPC in every cutscene

Star Wars Galaxies' house decorating system: All furniture pieces in the game can be placed in your house and then rotated and moved in any direction along every possible axis. As such, do away with "outdoor" and "indoor" furniture and let us finally move them up and down freely regardless of any surface to place them on. Let us rotate them to lay them on their side too.

Virtually any Korean MMO's character customization. Give us sliders to make truly unique characters.

Take a page out of City of Heroes / Champions Online for how characters look as well. Wear whatever you want. Let us use ANY clothes or armor for glamour even if we're tied to specific weapons.

I think it would be great if you could set your own chat filters for different chats. For example: I could specifically filter out any messages about FC recruitments in shout chat by blacklisting a few of the commonly used phrases.

I want some sort of Talent system, something smaller but more interesting.

Something that lets you gain other iconic abilities for your Job, that adds to its rotation without fundamentally changing it.

Healers could use more downtime options for example. Tanks too.

I agree on alts, I'd love to see a better alt system.

As for other stuff I'd like to see from other games... High difficulty 4 man content.

Rabanastre & Eruyt village.. I’d make that my hangout place

Post max level rewards? In PSO you can continue to gain EXP after you've maxed your job level and it'll give you items to be exchanged for things like armors, furniture, exp boosts, etc.

Inventory UI. The current one is just horrible.
There are a lot of more user friendly inventories out there to pick from.

I think FFXIV has a set of solvable issues with a priority list, and I expect a lot of player requests will be granted, especially cosmetic requests (like expanding the glamour system for instance, or revamping inventory space systems).

My main focus would be gameplay oriented. The big thing missing in FFXIV is more endgame content in between normal and savage, and in light party. Sure there are Deep Dungeons and treasure maps, but I think having harder endgame dungeons bringing gear between normal mode and savage raid ilevel would be great. Or even more cosmetic rewards. They could even use the Unreal scaling system (without too much gear synch) and have something close to WoW's mythic dungeons.
This could also bring a bit more customization in jobs between various types of content in terms of stats and rotations.

Specific language server

And a better looking character turning animation when you use R-Mouse like they did in wildstar or wow for example

atm its just a cheap looking spinning

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Originally Posted by EzekielBook

From WoW, add real alts. A selling point of FF is that you don't need alts to play all the classes, but from an RP standpoint, sometimes you don't want to be dancing for tips as male Lalafell, but would rather do so as a Miqo'te. And while you can create multiple characters, the game doesn't even want them to interact. You can't send items or even gil between them easily. A real alt system would let you at least pair characters up so that you can share at least some resources between them.

I haven't played enough other games to tell you what else could be brought in, but I'm sure others of you have. I look forward to hearing your suggestions.

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THIIIIIIS. I don't even RP, but I like having alts. I like making characters, and I like making those that look better for certain jobs than others. And if I'm willing to let an alt go, it would be nice to move their stuff to my main so that I don't lose anything.

You used to be able to send mail stuff to your alt, but they squashed that because people were using alts as mules but... who cares? The game already allows you to make 8 characters per world, so I'm not seeing what difference that would make. Retainers are still by and large the better system for holding all my stuff, anyway. What's more convenient, going to my retainer, or logging out, log in as my alt, my alt mails my main 666 copper ores, I log out, log back in, all the while dealing with queue times... c'mon.

Better Housing

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Originally Posted by EzekielBook

From WoW, add real alts. A selling point of FF is that you don't need alts to play all the classes, but from an RP standpoint, sometimes you don't want to be dancing for tips as male Lalafell, but would rather do so as a Miqo'te. And while you can create multiple characters, the game doesn't even want them to interact. You can't send items or even gil between them easily. A real alt system would let you at least pair characters up so that you can share at least some resources between them.

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I'd just go for higher alt-friendliness, for both alt-characters and alt-jobs.

For reducing the handicap of having all jobs on one player, replace weekly-capped tomestone and weekly capped raid-token purchases with making a given slot buyable with non-capped tomes, so we're free to grind for alt-job gear on one character. Also, reduce uncapped gear tome costs for quicker catch-up and horizontal progression.

For better allowing for alt-characters, automatically add our alts to a portion of our friend's list, allowing us to send LS invites, mail, and everything else. However, to greatly reduce any perceptible obligation to make alt characters to use as banks, make it so any items sent from one to another of our characters causes it to be spiritbound (or otherwise not tradeable back) once taken out of the mail. This restriction will not apply to returned mail, but a cap should be placed on how many items one can have sent to other characters at a time (i.e., without their being taken out of the mail), so we're not just cycling mail through per month to open up 100+ additional inventory slots. (Should we get more inventory, in general? Yes, but we shouldn't feel obliged to circumvent XIV's inventory bloat through gimmicks.)