FFXIV has lost it's magic

[DubstepNinja]

I really enjoyed the OPs suggestions.

For me I would really like to see some type of Campaign / Beseiged content.

Its trying to convey to the player that their continued existence is vital or has some meaningful effect in game. Whether they are helping to defend their nation from a Garlean attack. Or going on the offensive to rout the beastman from a camp they have seized.

As it stands all content is completed for the progression of the individual (outside of FC ranking). Give us some reason to go into the overworld, and let us feel consequences for not doing so. How much community goodwill could be fostered if all of a sudden Camp Reveants Toll was captured by the Garleans and nobody could trade in tomes until it was wrestled back from them via a full server effort?

[Blarp]

To everyone wanting to turn this thread into a suggestions for a better game to the Devs, I only have to say lolz. SE is and always has been the king of don't give a crap what the customers want, hell when does any company really listen? Look at how SWG ruined there own game, how WoW went from hard to easy mode and started bleeding subs. The consumer base doesn't matter to any of these guys. Its just a bunch of suits at the top making decisions on games they don't play and don't care about as long as its turning a profit. Its nice to pretend that we have a say in making a better game. But if you really believe that I have a bridge I can sell you real cheap.

WoW had the most subs during WoTLK when the game was more casual than ever.

[Felis]

I can teleport any where I want in a blink of the eye. I didnt work for a "flight path" I didnt have to farm the scroll for my teleport points, I didnt have to walk anywhere...

But you have to walk before you can teleport.
It is not like in 1.0, where someone can take you piggyback to teleport to each aetherite without that you need to walk there first.

[Hanabira]

WoW had the most subs during WoTLK when the game was more casual than ever.

And then soon after it started the sharp decline its currently in if i remember . Its great at first, then it goes stale annd nosedive

[Roris]

I miss when Beastmen strongholds were actually dangerous and you had a hard time going in alone just to get your AF piece, so you had to party with someone. Sure, it might have been an inconvenience for some people who you know, have jobs and families and love telling everyone how they don't have time to party in an MMO and want glorified single player games with a chatbox, but it was fun teaming up with other people inside or even sneak in behind another party. Now it's just another walk in the themepark, walk in get your relic starter, walk out then walk in again a bit later to kill a couple of really easy mobs and walk out, they're also much smaller and don't have their leaders yet even though their rooms are there but they're locked.

I also miss going to dungeon and primal entrances a bit, even the path to Ifrit Extreme was "extreme" with a bunch of level 60+ mobs on the way compared to normal Ifrit, now the only endgame-combat related reason to leave a city is to go to Wineport once or twice a week and you're done. But you know, Final Fantasy, just released, entitlement and stuff.

[Welsper59]

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In other words, you miss what ideologies MMORPGs were originally founded on. A video game rendition of tabletop games (like D&D). You (the player) ARE your character. You are living the life of this character, and you endure the struggles they face in your quest to destroy the evils of the world. There was a reason why MMORPGs were once considered a "second life" or "second job"... because they are intended to be that way, literally.

[Roris]

Kinda but not really, I don't really like roleplaying and thinking I'm my character, I just miss those particular things mostly. I hated taking almost an hour of real time walking from Bastok to Jeuno when I played XI for just a month and walking slowly everywhere in general, so there you go.

So really just the sense of danger some places had and exploring big open (and in 1.0 admittedly empty and copypasted) areas you really shouldn't be in alone, now everything is so small and cramped full of NPCs and civilization everywhere you go, you'd think the Calamity spawned more people and buildings than it wiped.

[Welsper59]

Kinda but not really, I don't really like roleplaying and thinking I'm my character, I just miss those particular things mostly. I hated taking almost an hour of real time walking from Bastok to Jeuno when I played XI for just a month and walking slowly everywhere in general, so there you go.

So really just the sense of danger some places had and exploring big open (and in 1.0 admittedly empty and copypasted) areas you really shouldn't be in alone, now everything is so small and cramped full of NPCs and civilization everywhere you go, you'd think the Calamity spawned more people and buildings than it wiped.

LOL agreed. As much as I enjoy FFXIV, it's very lack-luster when it comes to believing the game's world is vast and full of adventure to be found. I'd say the numerous zoning areas worked against it on that regard.

[Blarp]

And then soon after it started the sharp decline its currently in if i remember . Its great at first, then it goes stale annd nosedive

It's not quite so black and white. You're correlating the drop in subs to the game becoming more casual when in fact the drop of subs began when the game became harder (Cata). Also, the game is nearly a decade old and still has more subs than every single P2P MMO combined, so apparently they're doing something right.

[PSxpert2011]

More wild landscapes with more dangerous enemies.

Sounds great. Lets do it. Lets have an adventure where I'm not just waiting in a line to go through a scripted dungeon path.

Gramul, your so cool, your welcome to come to Excalibur!