If Square-Enix directly asked you for suggestions...

[Soge01]

Simple yet unique additions to Jandeline's Aesthetics they can handle, such as:

1. Hairstyles that vary and stand out completely from one another.
Examples:
FFXIII Fang
FFX Lulu

I would add more hairstyle examples, namely male ones. But my tablet is currently testing my patience right now, so I'll only name off a few of them.

Ahem...! FFX Auron, FFVII Vincent Valentine, FFVI Terra, FFXI Prishe, FFIV Cecil (that sexy hair~), FFXV Lunafreya.

2. More facial scarring options, Facial clan tattoos, etc.

3. More color options for hair, lip color and face paint.


Hair clipping through clothes?

It'd be nice if they took the time to edit our hair where when we wear clothing that forces it to clip through, it just automatically readjusts our current hairstyle into a different position so it doesn't do that.


More high heel boot options and an option to have open leg dress skirt glamours.

I. NEED. THEEEEEESSSSSSSSSEEEEE!!!! Especially the boots. I hate this game for their incredible lacking in heel boot options; specially thigh and knee high heel boots. 8T

[Nihility]

i'd just like a market assistant house npc for indoor marketboard access
not getting booted out of apartment/home/fc house constantly after doing anything
and the ability to set glamours to your crystals so each job can have a unique one. I don't really mind the need to save stuff for glamouring instead of just having a massive log of every item you've ever picked up. Just too many jobs share sets to have it be set to the gear pieces themselves

[Kisagami]

Add some instanced housing. Sure, wards are nice with yards and such, but there just aren’t enough of them. Too many players have more than one character with a FC house and a house. The price gougers want 20million just to vacate a place for someon to scoop up. It makes housing feel so elitist and removes an experience for thousands of members in the playerbase.

So add some instanced wards where FCs and new players can have an instanced, but decent housing. You proved you can do this with apartments. Why not give us larger ones for free companies?

[Joe_Schmoe]

If Square-Enix directly asked you for suggestions... What would you tell them?

"Yeah, I got a suggestion, Squeenix: Locking flying in level 60-61 zones behind a lvl 67/69 MSQ, don't do that again! Hell, I'd have just as soon as rather you guys not have flying in those zones at all, than to turn it into an infinity+1 perk. That there was one of the biggest reasons I quit playing WoW. You had to, like, do every f***ing thing in that expansion on foot, just to unlock the damn flying. Like, gee! This would've been nice to have at the start of the expansion. Well, I guess flying is pointless now, since I've pretty much done everything in the game without it. Assholes!"

"But heyheyheyheyhey waitwait! That's my one and only gripe about Stormblood, just that. I'm fine with everything else you guys have done. Not like other people, who'd give you a huge laundry list of things you did wrong in SB, along with a partridge in a pear tree. Not me though, just that one gripe. You did it right with all the other zones, only needing 63 for Ruby Sea, 64 for Yanxia, etc. It was just those two zones that really triggered the WoW flashbacks, that's all. But hey, thanks for taking the time to ask me personally, guys. Means a lot. Take care. ;]"

[Xlantaa]

Very basic ones:

- One more free retainer. With the increased item number, it is necessary more space. Or, a chest for our room/apartment where you can store let's say, 200 items or something like that. You just need limit the amount of chest per player to avoid over-exploit this.

- Upgrade glamour system to the next level. Allow to glamour per job instead per gear. This way you can use, for example, artifact gear for DRK, PLD and WAR using the same tank gear. Also, include a system to store and retrieve glamour (popularly called glamour log) and apply to gear you had before, without currently having the item. This will help a lot with the inventory too.

- Make vote kick or party exclusion more punishable if they are unjustified, instead of fall in the "different play style" or "His party, his rules" statements. Create a good atmosphere to play must be rule one, instead of ignore this fact.

- Less privileges to savage content. Give more ways to upgrade the gear aside raid from the very beginning of current raid tier, instead of last it one patch. That also include weapons. Despite I raid, I feel this is unfair or the people who don't raid. Being raider doesn't mean being entitled.

- Lower craft recipes requirement to craft end game gear. It is very difficult sometimes craft this gear at the very beginning of a patch, since your gear doesn't reach the minimum value yet. Remove the specialist requirement too. It is annoying being changing specialist every time I want to do different things.

This is more a personal preference instead of a suggestion, but I would like trash mobs and semi-dungeon floor return to the raid. Just like Coil or Alexander normal. I don't like much having only the boss directly.

[Ssmiley_Bjakkzz]

Hellluuuuuu

[SaitoHikari]

QoL stuff:
- Give us the ability to craft from retainer inventory.
- Overhaul the glamour system so that you glamour to equipment slots in a gear set, rather than glamouring over each individual piece of equipment. The main differences this would make is that you no longer have to glamour over each piece of new gear as you obtain them, and that this would allow different looks for jobs of the same combat role if you're currently using unique armor that you can't get multiples of.
- ...Other stuff I'll edit in as I think of them.

Slightly unrelated to the actual game but still relevant to XIV:
- Give us a new Tactics game set in the world of XIV. Please. D:

[KageTokage]

QoL

-Allow for the ability to water/fertilize all plants in a garden at once.
-Make Overheat and Turret Overload simply disable the respective effects instead of removing them entirely so you don't need reapply Gauss Barrel and redeploy turrets.

Other

-Install some proper protection against hacking/botting and give the GMs authority to track down and administer immediate punishment to reported cheaters instead of banning them in delayed waves.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

- Change Savage loot restrictions to allow one or two players who previously cleared to help without costing the group their two chests.
- Go back to Creator difficult or above for Savage. No more Alte Roite <60 minute clears.
- Ignore Dark Knight being apart of Ultimate World First and give it the proper love it needs.
- Implement instanced housing as a separate "ward" alternative.
- Give garden access to Apartments and remove plot limits (i.e one plot for smalls)
- Have glamour effect the individual job, though a glamour log would be preferable.
- Remove gear restrictions when glamouring save series staples like the Artifact gear.

[Mimilu]

Square Enix asking people outside of the company for assistance of any kind XD...

If Square wanted to improve this game with community assistance then they would have a public test realm.

Agreed.
They either need a test server or to just hire some outside beta testers. While developing the content, the devs will get too use to it and not be able to really see the flaws in it (plus, I'm sure they'll want to get it done quickly so they can move on to their next project).