The Current Status of FFXIV Patch 3.1 and How to Address it Moving Forward

[FizzleofHyperion]

For everyone here thats willing to contribute how do you guys feel about nostalgia dungeons? Like imagine how crystal tower and voidark are but more targetting final fantasy endgame dungeons from other games. The storyline can also be corny I wouldn't care like Biggs and Wedge find some sort of device that opens a dark portal and oops Kefka is in your face ready to cause destruction as he devours a few of the primals for powers or something like that? I truly beleive that would work and its giving back more than you think to the fans. Thats maybe a bit too much to ask since it will interrupt with the storyline but it would give this game another value aswell for the nostalgia. Could also be something nice for Sephiroth with the new FF7 remake and making it more enjoyable than just a silly fate like they did with lightning.

[Velhart]

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That is just a lazy way for developers to get players in and only works in the short term. The developers are right when they say that FFXIV needs to be it's own thing and any nostalgic factors from other games has to make sense and written well into the story. Things like Crystal Tower and Cloud of Darkness work because they are still part of the FFXIV world and CoD is more of an entity than an actual person.

All developers need to do to make their three points work is to fix raid structure that I have gone over plenty of times in here, make Diadem have a variety of reasons for wanting to go in without creating an imbalance with raids, and attempt to put fun in between grinds in the relic. In concept, all three are easy to improve, but I am very sure the developers are going to make ways for them to be worse and no one is happy at the end of the day. Raids we know are already going to be worse in design, can check that off. Maybe they can fix Diadem. We know they are going to keep anima weapons absolutely awful, can check that off also.