What do you think was the worst thing this game experienced from 2.0 until now?

[RiyahArp]

Heavensward rotations. The devs wound up making rotations with too high a skill gap between players, and had to more or less scrap them. MCH in particular has arguably never worked well since it was introduced, and the amount of time they had to waste on balancing and then full on walking back HW must have been a lot.

[Bluvirus]

Lord of vermillion. Its soo bad people don't even remember it.

sadly I do remember... I remember the hype they tried to build for it too... Is so bad >.<

[Bluvirus]

The biggest disappointment I have is in 4.0. They wrecked the story for me by deciding to change the font size on dialogue making it almost impossible to read on ps4 for me, and I haven't been able to get back into the story since.

[Duskane]

removing skills from HW butchering jobs
having jobs incomplete until max level even having to completely relearning the job at 70
making the role skill system instead of just letting classes automatically learning them and just add them to move pool without it being a choice

[MuseTraveller]

pre buff HW bard, those early bowmage days... :')

[ElazulHP]

The entire Mog Station. Call me old fashioned, but I prefer my MMO's to have one subscription fee AND contain all the content inside the game. Meaning I want to be be able to earn it from actual game play(or as a veteran reward) instead of a fat wallet. Pretty much impossible to find anymore sadly since people have proven they're willing to bend over and take it wallet wide open. Though ffxiv is probably the least offensive on the market right now.

[Nestama]

Back in 2013, before they fixed the latency issues in Titan HM and you had to do it for the relic, that was when FFXIV was at it's worst .

When they fixed the issues, I cleared it like a breeze, the game got good again :P But those were some dark days.

Eureka is nothing compared to ultra-latency titan relic trial.

Yeah, pretty much. Combo that with being on the PS3 and AoE's were impossible to dodge as they appeared on your screen. Had to learn Titans' mechanic rotation and count to 4 after every single attack just so I could pre-dodge.
ADS was just as rough, too. That laser AoE was impossible to dodge if you didn't know it was coming. You can be out of the AoE for a second or two and still be hit.

I will say, though. Phantom Trains Saintly Beam AoE definitely suffered some weird latency issues akin to the old 2.0 days. I could be out of that AoE for around 3 seconds and still be hit by the attack. Had to learn to dodge the attack before the AoE stopped moving.

[Berteaux_Braumegain]

I feel like there's been an increased focus on buying things to have in-game rather than unlocking them. Like, a $100 emote (or however much those statues cost) feels a bit much, not to mention the plethora of minions, mounts, emotes, and glamour that have been going up instead of into dungeons or Veteran Rewards or something similar.

Why can I get Ifrit and Co.'s mounts from their Extreme Trials, but Good King Moogle Mog and Phoenix's have to come from Mogstation?

Personally, I think the forced cutscenes on Praetorium & Castrum Meridianum MSQ dutys is the worst thing this game have "seen" since I have started playing.

Hmph, how very glib. And do you believe in Eorzea?

On a more serious note, I don't mind those cutscenes. That's time I can AFK and browse the web.

[Derio]

Eureka.

Never in the history of the game has the relic been made to where you were forced to have only 1 option to obtain.
Never had the relics in the past forced you to devote a large amount of time in a single sitting to gain a small amount of progress towards it.


Specifically Pagos would IMO be the worst.

With Lords of Vermillion being a strong second because IMO that is a waste of resources.

And 3rd being 4.0 DRK changes/nerf

[Lambdafish]

Adding unsync to the game. A lot of problems this game faces, from incentive to run content, to the poor skill level of players, to the devs further decisions to dumb down, devalue and nerf content in this game, can be traced back to the introduction of this feature.

Not saying its bad in theory, it does have some good points, but the way it is implemented is really poor.

The biggest disappointment I have is in 4.0. They wrecked the story for me by deciding to change the font size on dialogue making it almost impossible to read on ps4 for me, and I haven't been able to get back into the story since.

Didn't they make it so you can adjust the text size? Or was that PC only?