What do you like and dislike most in FFXIV?

[KitingGenbu]

I realise that im not sticking to the OP's guidelines but I seriously dont really know why most of you even play FFXIV.

I believe many of us (yourself included since you're at least curious enough to post) still believe in the potential this game has and know how amazing SE can be development wise since they have a lot of success under their belt. Many of us who have complaints about the game in its current state just feel they are giving into the "easy money" in this over saturated MMORPG market which in turn is compromising many of the things it used to hold on to. Final Fantasy games have always been about challenge and honestly achieving the ability to be overpowering within the game's confines, thus in almost every Final Fantasy game, there has been some kind of ultimate power that could be obtained. Although it was easily abused in XI for many, the relic/mythic systems at the very least gave players that ability to be the "hero" if one was able to achieve it. Your whole way of playing a class changed for the most part, aside from the mage weapons but it also felt worth it when getting it. Not just on a subjective level like how relics are done in this game, but on an objective one since anyone who was anyone would examine the F out of you if they knew what you had equipped. It was my silver pin...(watch the anime ReLife to get the reference, really good anime).

[Shurrikhan]

Not a giant fan of

- Though I enjoy the core mechanics of the jobs, I feel we could expand on them greatly. More party enhancements, debuffs, ways for players to link skills to do more damage (it was in 1.0 I can't remember the name, someone will help me out I'm sure.

Battle Regimen. But, it was an ultimately very, very simple system, without remotely the potential extracted that XI's Skillchains had, and was removed anyways just before Yoshi took over, iirc. There were plenty of posts back then on how to make it awesome, but the actual incarnation never was.

I'd fish some of those posts up for you, but I was just tracking them by thread subscriptions back then, and bookmarked only the external sites they'd posted them on (mostly XIVCore), which are all dead now. My own's still archived, but it's probably not the best of the bunch, and certainly not the simplest.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...en-Alternative

[Istaru]

Why not?

Likes:
MSQ
Hildebrand
Music
Art style

Dislike:
The feel that every bit of content they make has a short shelf life, make content that lasts throughout the expansion instead.

Weekly caps, get rid of them already, I throw so many away after capping in like 2 days.

Unique status for Tomestone gear, why are they unique? If I want 3 sets of healing gear, let me do it. Then I can glamour per job since your current system is not capable of achieving this feat.

Alexander raid being completely blah, tie it into something cool. You nailed this with Bahamut, give us that again!

Add in a midcore raid between normal and EX. The jump is too large for many groups and they gave up.

Itemization, with only a few relevant substats, there is only one relevant piece of gear. Give us some depth of some kind.

Difficulty, up it. Most of the content outside EX and Savage is a joke. A brain dead monkey could do it.

Holy trinity, kill it. Kill it with fire. You have a couple of jobs that skirt the different roles. Put them together into a wild card slot of sorts and go with 5 man instead.

Antagonists, we need to hate them. You introduce them and kill them so quickly we hardly develop any feelings about them.

I will stop here before I get accused of hating on the game, because I don't hate the game. I do want to see it reach the potential it has but seems too afraid to reach for.

[Istaru]

Most of you would be far happier playing something like Elder Scrolls Online. It has dynamic class creation/builds, virtually unparalleled character customisation - with a dye system that allows for each tiny detail to be coloured, active open world with similar systems to ffxiv in places granted, fully voiced so you don't have to expend the energy to read and content is somewhat less rigid for those who dislike the trinity (including full action combat obviously)

I realise that im not sticking to the OP's guidelines but I seriously dont really know why most of you even play FFXIV. It may not be perfect but when you consider titles like ESO are almost entirely free comparatively, its a no brainer. As for myself, I couldn't be happier here. All the things you don't like are precisely why I do. Bizarrely one of my favourite parts is the community... because you actually have one. Unlike other games. In my experience, don't ask for changes without weighing up the repercussions. Turn the game into a classless, challenge-less, carebear fest and this game will be dead before you can say gravestone.

Simply put, the only MMO I care to play is a Final Fantasy MMO. I do not care about ESO, LoL, WoW, Wildstar, not a single one.

I am a person that will buy any game they put the Final Fantasy name on.

As far as classless, super easy goes, many of us want the opposite things. Some of us want harder content and want the jobs to be what they have been historically. SMNs actually summoning Eikons, elemental affects, skills returned to where they belong, etc.

[Iromi]

Like: My character - I like how they kept the FFXI looks...so in a way my character is familiar to me:


how we can change jobs quickly and it changes the gear automatically

the mounts - I like how different they are and the effects they give em.

my fc house - got my fc house back when it first came out, large in LB, love decorating it and such.

Dislike: Battle System - too shallow, not enough depth, no CC, no refresh or enfeeble spells, no thought is really given...its the same rotation..over and over ad naseum. If you have two of any job in the PT they are always doing the same things -_-

Lack of Longevity in content - content in this game is a blast..the first couple times doing it. Then after that it feels boring and monotonous...I wish there was more longevity to it..which brings me to my next dislike.

Lack of rewards - for some reason the devs are afraid to give really solid rewards. It is almost as if they don't want anyone to feel like they have something special they earned and worked hard for which REALLY separates them from others. Example, in other online games I've played, Aion, XI, Lineage II, if I got one of the most difficult weapons or armors and farmed my butt off..you could totally see a massive difference in numbers and such, in this game...not so much.

annd no interest stats - The fact that there is 0 interest stats and we were promised in 1.x we would get them back. Where is my refresh +10, Store TP +15, Enmity -5 ? Why make the game stats so watered down and dull...it worked fine in 1.x so...

Lack of no FC content - This game is 3 years old now and we still have 0 content to do with our FC. Whats up with that o.O

No support jobs, no real pet class and no thief class - Where is the pure support jobs? Those are my favorite to play..right after pet class. Where is the pet class? No, I do not count SMN, it is not about the pet at all, and where is the dagger backstab class? That is also my favorite to play in other mmo. I do not count ninja as it does not feel like a crit/fast attacker with some serious back stab crits at all.

[ErryK]

You didn't say anything about female Hyur's in extremely provocative clothing. Those are ok, right?!

Seeing those races naked is like seeing a unicorn.

[Rhuazie]

like - Glam endgame.

dislike - Running out of ideas for glam endgame.

[Mindiori]

snipsnip

And I'm glad of sentiments like yours don't get me wrong. I certainly wish that elements of your community spent as much time building up the positives as they do pulling down the negatives sure (even if thats not so called 'human nature') - but in general it seems as if at least some of you have a perspective of the value of challenge when it comes to 'worth'.

That makes me happy. I only wish there were more like you and those sharing that perspective. Thanks to everyone who replied in a similar vein. I didn't want to side track too much in your topic but it certainly saddens me that the game could potentially drop from grace because of the casual, self entitlement culture that is slowly building in this genre. I hope that people find pause to remember why this game did so well, and what drew people like me here, before its lost. Wouldn't want to see it driven into the mediocrity that other mmorpg's now enjoy.

Keep up the good fight

[Shurrikhan]

Seeing those races naked is like seeing a unicorn.

The majority of female midlanders I see wear the camise and shorts, if not swimwear... Maybe there's a racial dress code on your server?

[Lan_Mantear]

Seeing those races naked is like seeing a unicorn.

The majority of female midlanders I see wear the camise and shorts, if not swimwear... Maybe there's a racial dress code on your server?

Some servers are just more pure hearted than others!