4.0 Predictions till Las Vegas

[Balipu]

I'd love to get Vieras, but didn't Yoshida say that they'd never be released because devs don't want another race with animal features?

Dunno. Don't remember why the Viera was scrapped, but it was actually planned for 3.0 so I put it in assuming whatever was the problem got solved.

[Kusanagi7]

Samurai and hmm Viera

[Masekase_Hurricane]

I'd love to get Vieras, but didn't Yoshida say that they'd never be released because devs don't want another race with animal features?

I really hope it isn't Vieras I either want something completely new or maybe one of the beast tribes as a playable race. Well if it is a water theme then maybe Poroggo, I dunno I just like the idea of a full animal race instead of a deformed hyur.

[Balipu]

I really hope it isn't Vieras I either want something completely new or maybe one of the beast tribes as a playable race. Well if it is a water theme then maybe Poroggo, I dunno I just like the idea of a full animal race instead of a deformed hyur.

You and me both. I want a freakin monster. But ya know, we might not get those. Ever. Sadly. The japanese seem to prefer slightly modified humans. We can totally rule out any of the existing beast tribes for story reasons. Poroggo would be interesting.

[Stormfur]

This, please. Along with SAM, RDM and Beastmaster.

[Dorander]

Yeah, I don't see Viera happening. If anything it'll be what Stormfur linked, or something similar.

As for jobs, they've said that introducing four of them so close together rogue/ninja in 2.4, and then DRK, AST, and MCH with 3.0 was extremely taxing on the devs. At most we'll get is two new jobs. One job is pretty much a guarantee at this point. Samurai. They have said already that the job is finished. It just didn't fit the theme of Ishgard, and since they had just released Ninja they didn't want a flood of Eastern themed jobs in one chunk. What it's role will be, who knows. Probably a tank with it's own gimmick.

Redmage is pretty much a given too. It's probably the second highest requested, as well as having been hinted at it being in development.

Location wise, it's possible for it to be ala mhigo. Though there will probably be quite a bit of sea related stuff too since Sky and Sea were the two locations that Yoshi-P has said he wanted to do. We got sky with heavensward so, naturally we can assume the next expansion will be sea or heavy on the water theme.

[LalafellDown]

There was a article recently where Yoshi P said that they were going to do something that has never been done before in MMO's. I hope its cake.

[Rennies]

I want Viera with cute bunny boys and strong, imposing women. Basically the opposite of Au Ra.

[Loony_BoB]

I don't care for swimming and would prefer they continue with flying. If they do add swimming, I hope it's not "oh you can breathe underwater now" and is more of an actual gameplay element.

I'm not too worried about where we end up so long as it's not another snow region. I'm keen on something more tropical if possible, but honestly I'll take whatever I can get. I'd like to see some more ultra-fantasy environments, too, FFXIV is actually pretty good for them. I'm not a massive fan of FFX but I am a massive fan of Spira. I'd love to see something like Macalania Woods, a truly dark forest with glowing butterflies and you move around on insanely large branches, really enhancing the 3D stage.

I expect we'll see a bunny-like race. I'm thinking it'll probably be named something different to Viera, but otherwise be very much like them. I'm a Roe and I'm perfectly happy as I am, but it'll be neat enough to see a bit of diversity.

The thing I would love to see more than anything else would be more history and lore regarding the races. It's great and all that everyone gets along or whatever (at least in the starter cities) but the game really could use more fleshing out of how races have developed, give them cultural differences that really make me feel like part of a race, regardless of whether I like that aspect of my race or not. It'll help add to the "personality" my characters have. I yearn for this stuff! It's crazy that it's not already in depth in the game in this area. Hopefully the upcoming lore book will help in this regard to some degree, but the game itself could definitely use it.

Other than that... I'm happy to be surprised, really.

[Nalien]

There was a article recently where Yoshi P said that they were going to do something that has never been done before in MMO's. I hope its cake.

I'd hope he is finally getting round to implementing Free Company Primal Summoning, which was promised as a feature way back in the good old days of 1.0, though I think between then and now some other MMOs have implemented a similar feature? Still, the Free Company aspect, capturing, and world event level summoning sounded unique enough... My only problem is this game has zero open world content worth a damn for something like this to be thrown at...

Hey Yoshida, how about instead of something never done before, you go copy XI and improve upon Campaign? Ugh, fighting a losing battle to control an outpost in some region, only for a Free Company to storm in and throw Ifrit at the problem, completely changing the tide of battle... That sh*t would be beyond epic... Shame that falls into the camp of sandbox MMO, while XIV seems to be a theme park to a fault...

Do any other MMOs give your character a birthday though? Would be hilarious if that comment was just "We're implementing a system that'll send you cake on your characters birthday!"