So you get ONE wish...

[Dhalmel]

dhalmel mounts. . . . or a more social community

[Swev]

Story with endgame boss fights (more content)

[Pulseczar]

I wish the 1.18 patch would come next week.

[LifeStop]

A crysta shop to change things like skin/hair/color and maybe a few "for fun" outfits

YES. Staring at the same character for hundreds of hours can get old. Changing clothing helps, but the ability to switch hair type & color would be awesome!

People make these kind of changes all the time in real life, so why do so many MMOs force you to play as a cookie-cutter (FFXIV has done well with it's many options during initial character creation), stagnant character for your entire gaming experience?

Good idea.

[Frisque]

No cap on number of people in Linkshells

[Mack]

Let me be the first to say...NO. FFXI has already been done. If that's the game you want, it's still operating, and will be for some time.

Yea, done and done better in every way. I'll take a better FFXI. I don't know what some of you guys think when someone says a better FFXI but they're basically trying to turn this into FFXI if you haven't noticed. The job system and XP chains are just a start, AF gear, to name a few. When people say an FFXI 2.0 they don't mean take FFXI and give it a graphics overhaul, they mean take the best of FFXI and build on them, not throw them out the window.

So yay for FFXI 2.0. This game will never become anywhere near as good as FFXI was (even at NA release one year after its inception).

[Dizmo]

A combat system that didn't have a unpredictable, sometimes several second delay between pressing the key on my keyboard and the action going off. May as well make it a turn based game if it's going to be that slow.

In situations where you suddenly need to cure mid-battle but you have another action queued so you have to wait a further several seconds for that to go off first, it's especially frustrating.

[OMEGA_HACK]

Why does everyone say XI is slow? ?_? Sure the initial levels are slow, but now that you can exp to 90 in a matter of a day (literally 24hrs can pass and you can get from 1-90), Once you have more than just two abilities the combat is surprisingly well paced in that game, it is active yet you have just the right time to plan a coordinated attack if you so choose. (And this is coming from a DRG main in XI, a job who got its last job ability @50 [Super Jump] back when the level cap was at 75, and even now only got two new independent abilities from 76-90)

Basically saying even the ability-less jobs were kept active in the battles. Exping was a bore in XI because of Colibri parties required absolutely NO thought process, and same with the new abyssea zones, its not because of lack of things to do in combat, it just gets boring without needing any kind of strategy.

[Corrderio]

Yea, done and done better in every way. I'll take a better FFXI. I don't know what some of you guys think when someone says a better FFXI but they're basically trying to turn this into FFXI if you haven't noticed. The job system and XP chains are just a start, AF gear, to name a few. When people say an FFXI 2.0 they don't mean take FFXI and give it a graphics overhaul, they mean take the best of FFXI and build on them, not throw them out the window.

So yay for FFXI 2.0. This game will never become anywhere near as good as FFXI was (even at NA release one year after its inception).

The thing is there wasn't a lot of "best" to take from XI. It didn't age well.

[Mack]

The thing is there wasn't a lot of "best" to take from XI. It didn't age well.

Well maybe not but FFXI still has a better world, more varied, better lore, better story, instanced BCNMs KSNMs, a threatening world with the beastmen and all, cool characters, a more rewarding battle system, a more rewarding atmosphere etc. They didn't even take the "good" from FFXI let alone the best. Look at them now, they are retracting into pretty much the same battle system FFXI had but probably faster paced. FFXI had much more good than bad, more than can be said about FFXIV. If FFXI didn't age well how do you think FFXIV aged in its first year? nothing praise worthy that's for sure.