My Friend the "Completionist" :/

[Naunet]

Nothing in FF14 has even the tiniest shred of what a real sandbox game offers in terms of exploration or creativity.

This design philosophy becomes painfully clear when you look at XIV's housing system. When I think of MMO housing, I think of an opportunity to individualize, to create, to explore a range of options, to build things not seen before, to show off the extent of your design powers and your achievements - but that's exactly the opposite of what we get in XIV. The entire system is not only blocked off by a massive paywall (so far - who knows what it'll be like for personal housing), but it's shackled by extremely limited customization. Your large house is going to look just like the large house of someone else, plus or minus a few decorations. Exploration and creativity not wanted. :/

[Imapooonu]

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Pvp
Dungeons
Crafting
Gathering
Exploring
Treasure maps
Leveling all classes
Level your chocobo!
GC seals/rank

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Thank you, but I was looking for something a little more outside of the box tbh. These have been mentioned before, and some of them I mentioned myself in the original post.
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RE: Crafting/treasure maps.

I asked this in the other thread. Someone mentioned something about a “blue foxhide” I think it was. I also heard talk of other extremely rare mats from maps able to be used for vanity gear and/or housing. That’s something I’ll look into.

In addition to crafting, there are new weapons available on the marketboard along with some potions I’ve seen. I’m a level 50 alchemist, but cannot find these in my crafting logs.

Can anyone offer insight to this?

[Imapooonu]

And also, if you read those guidelines closely, there must be paragraph which states that creating same threads after 1st gets locked/deleted is bannable offence. Reported.

Thank you for the insight, and I did. However this is not a "copy paste" as you indicate. The title was changed, additions were made, and an ending disclosure was added.

Also, I made one post that was in violation, other than that I broke no rules at all. The thread was locked because of derailment and harassment.

Thank you for the suggestion, but please get on topic.

Thank you.

[Clavaat]

Nothing in FF14 has even the tiniest shred of what a real sandbox game offers in terms of exploration or creativity.

I think we'll just have to agree to disagree here. The only reason I say that is because of one major sign of creativity and imbued interest in the game: Roleplayers. Say what you will, they always continue to astound me with their knowledge of lore and execution of events. I don't roleplay myself, but I have to admit that they have a lot of creative ideas of things to do involving the game's structure. I'm also not recommending that you roleplay or not to entertain yourself, however if you want to see some interesting ideas about the game, it wouldn't be the worst place to look.

[Lumiin]

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Because that's all the game offers, it doesn't offer anything out of the box. If I have to "make" fun in a game i'm paying to have fun in, with what it provides then the game sucks and is doing something horribly wrong. All those things I listed ARE the reasons I play mmorpgs.

There will be no extremely rare mats, it's a casuals game everything will be easily obtainable by everyone. Why would I craft anything other than the relic weapon? People craft that stuff then it sets there because there is no need to buy it. Yoshi said crafting with never be on par with dungeon drops when it comes to end game gear. Pre end game you have dungeon drops/GC gear all free why pay? Not to mention there's nothing to buy. An over priced house that offers nothing?

[TeaTimeBear]

I enjoy this game, but I can see why we have all the complaints we get. If they feel like there isn't much to do, then that's just it. And there's no changing their mind. Many of the ones posting that disagree with the OP came into this game expecting the elements from the previous update to still be intact at least to some degree. I picture it as building a house from a previous foundation and that house is wonderful now but it needed a little but more work. As that work was occurring someone else entered and removed all that made the house wonderous and decreased the size. Instead of a 6 bedroom house we're left with one door, no bathroom and a bedroom adjacent to the kitchen.

People find things boring OP, when I played a game called White Knight Chronicles, I found that mind numbingly boring. The game was a huge grindfest that had nothing to offer in the end. While I felt that way there were guys like you who found enjoyment regardless. But those same people could never change how I felt about the game. Which brings me to my next point.

Until SE, addresses these complaints this thread will not accomplish a thing. Other than people expressing the same thing over and over. I know what you want to see but you just cannot change a persons feelings or convince them of what isn't there to them. If you actually sift through their complaints you will find hidden gems of legitimacy. I say this again as someone who enjoys the game. They don't want to do the things you want there's nothing here to fix their boredom and a lot are posting on borrowed time.

All I can hope for is that some of the suggestions posted get listened too. I think we all deserve to enjoy games we like. This game should have more appeal/things for people to do who are bored.

[Kiyouma]

What kills me is people rushing to endgame as fast as possible only to complain there's nothing left to do. How about slow down and enjoy ALL aspects of the game? Instead of measuring your "server first" E-peens.

Kind of reminds me of Pokemon games.
There are those people who go through the entire game with 1 or 2 Pokemon, don't try to fill up their Pokedex or level a team, and rush through all the battles/trainers and reach endgame and complain that everything else seems meaningless now.

And then there are those people who catch and train everything along the way and take 3 times as long (arbitrary number) to beat the game which gives enough time for a new game to come out.

oh this will go well.

/popcorn

P.S. Played since beta, still not bored yet, Dont understand why others are.

I'm with you though, I've been playing since Beta and I'm still loving this game~

[Imapooonu]

...There will be no extremely rare mats...

Then what are some of these things I keep seeing in linkshell chat? I'm almost positive it was a "blue fox hide"??? I seen a couple other things come up about them, but for the life of me, I can't remember them. I apologize. I'm 99% sure they were for vanity only stuff, but me and my bud were always into that anyway. Something else I was gonna suggest was making a "skinny jean tank" xD.

[Lumiin]

Then what are some of these things I keep seeing in linkshell chat? I'm almost positive it was a "blue fox hide"??? I seen a couple other things come up about them, but for the life of me, I can't remember them. I apologize. I'm 99% sure they were for vanity only stuff, but me and my bud were always into that anyway. Something else I was gonna suggest was making a "skinny jean tank" xD.

Just because someone says something, doesn't mean it's true. From the way this game is set up and going everything will be easily obtainable. The market board will be flooded with whatever drop you're talking about and those mirage prism (not sure if thats what they are called) things. Since everyone can craft anything and there's no fail rate. Which goes back to my point of why craft anything to sell in the first place when there is nothing to buy.

This thread was for throwing out suggestions to the people that or bored right? I'm waiting.

[Imapooonu]

Just because someone says something, doesn't mean it's true.

No, I know it's true. I might have butchered the title of the material, but it does exist. I'm just wondering what it is. And then there's weapons on the market board that are not available through any crafter...they're also all meldable/repairable by alchemy.....are they just getting ready for the expansion? Is there a place we can go to get a jump start on mats?