Yoshi Pls

[SessionZero]

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I feel like SE had much more grand designs for the Lodestone in mind than what we actually use it for. Like I said, I think it was supposed to be a sort of self-contained social media site where people make friends, follow others, post blogs about their FFXIV experiences, and so forth. A neat idea, but something I think is plainly not a service most players would utilize.

[Kosmos992k]

I feel like SE had much more grand designs for the Lodestone in mind than what we actually use it for. Like I said, I think it was supposed to be a sort of self-contained social media site where people make friends, follow others, post blogs about their FFXIV experiences, and so forth. A neat idea, but something I think is plainly not a service most players would utilize.

Agreed. If the Lodestone was accessible in-game, and if their mobile app every takes flight properly, the Lodestone could be what you're suggesting, and if it went in that direction, it would be hugely beneficial to players. IMHO it would be several orders of magnitude more beneficial than the suggestions made by the OP. Making the Lodestone accessible in-game would give FCs and individuals so many more communication options, the benefits are very high, and it only requires a in-game micro-browser specific to the Lodestone to accomplish.

Not to mention that the Lodestone is entirely global, so it's cross world across all data centers.

If there is something that the players should be asking for, the above ideas are exactly the things we should be targeting.