I'd like to see my actions have consequences. Most of the patches in 4.x feel like the WoL may not even be there and everything would play out the same. Why show me Yotsuyu's story if all I do is watch? WoL could have been at the other end of the world and get called by Hien to rid of sudden Primal and nothing would have changed. Don't get me wrong, I love a tragic villain but, I honestly felt like a ghost through the whole story... and I still feel so. They can pull a Sixth Sense kinda twist at 4.55 and say WoL died and you were a ghost the whole time and I may actually buy it.

I understand it would be a huge strain on the servers so this obviously is outside of question but I so wish we could in fact independently impact the NPCs life/death while keeping the relatively same worldly flow. It would've been great to see other players share how NPC X or Y is doing while they are dead or gone for others.

I'd like to have a reputation and NPCs around changing their lines based on it. Am I dreaded WoL or beloved one?

FF14 plays a lot like a classical jRPG and while I love such, (they are my fave!) a little western RPG flavors won't hurt I think. It is an MMO after all.