SE needs to listen, to improve FFXIV

[Angellos]

9. It's high time that the armor chest got an upgrade. With how many jobs we have, we can't even carry all of our tools and weapons in our backpack. We need another page for each category in the armory chest.
10. LET ME MAIL THINGS TO MYSELF. Look, let's be real here. People already mail Zonureskin maps to a friend and have their friend mail them right back. We've been doing this for years. So what is having the 'You can only carry one of this map' on you at a time restriction doing? You can only GET one map a day without buying more. Just lift the restriction - and let me mail myself items.
11. SHARED BANK ACCESS: When I go to the FC chest, I should also have the option to open up a shared chest: A chest that I can place items in for my alts, that my alts can access. I'd like to be able to send them gil, or glamour items. I'd like to be able to send my crafter the crafting materials he needs without having to ask a friend to give it over.
12. I should be able to access my personal house ON ALL OF MY ALTS. Please allow us to be able to add tenants via their name and not from our friends list, since we can't add ourselves to our own friends list we can't give our alts access to our house.

There's at least 12 of my BIGGEST complaints to date.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

9. It's high time that the armor chest got an upgrade. With how many jobs we have, we can't even carry all of our tools and weapons in our backpack. We need another page for each category in the armory chest.
10. LET ME MAIL THINGS TO MYSELF. Look, let's be real here. People already mail Zonureskin maps to a friend and have their friend mail them right back. We've been doing this for years. So what is having the 'You can only carry one of this map' on you at a time restriction doing? You can only GET one map a day without buying more. Just lift the restriction - and let me mail myself items.
11. SHARED BANK ACCESS: When I go to the FC chest, I should also have the option to open up a shared chest: A chest that I can place items in for my alts, that my alts can access. I'd like to be able to send them gil, or glamour items. I'd like to be able to send my crafter the crafting materials he needs without having to ask a friend to give it over.
12. I should be able to access my personal house ON ALL OF MY ALTS. Please allow us to be able to add tenants via their name and not from our friends list, since we can't add ourselves to our own friends list we can't give our alts access to our house.

There's at least 12 of my BIGGEST complaints to date.

You absolutely can have one weapon/tool for every job in your armory chest, and with a couple extra spaces too.

In fact, you have at least 7! extra spaces in just the weapon tab.

[linay]

I can agree with the general idea of "SE will never know why people leave their game" - but I'm pretty sure the issues you're bringing up arent the reason for it. I do however think it could be a good idea for them to implement a voluntary survey either once in a while or whenever you unsub from the game so they'll get a better idea about what issues their game might have. Again: One of the main issues seems to be the heavy storylocks that they're currently trying to adress.

While I don't oppose the idea, I don't know how useful such a survey might be. Some of the more common reasons I've heard for not playing FFXIV seem to be about things that will probably not change or, at least, not significant enough to matter.

Some such reasons:
1. Art style
2. Longer GCD compared to some alternative MMOs/some unresponsiveness/lag in combat
3. Story/MSQ requirement (even the planned change in 5.3 won't change this, as far as I'm aware)
4. Dungeon/trial requirement in MSQ
5. Battle content/job system design
6. Lack of certain endgame content compared to some alternative MMOs and difficulty of said endgame content
7. The community/rule enforcement

(And on a personal basis, some of those reasons are things I'd rather not be changed.)

[Angellos]

You absolutely can have one weapon/tool for every job in your armory chest, and with a couple extra spaces too.

In fact, you have at least 7! extra spaces in just the weapon tab.

The armory weapon tab (35 spaces) is full when you are including:

ALL JOBS:

1.PLD
2.WAR
3.DRK
4.GNB
5.MNK
6.DRG
7.NIN
8.SAM
9.BRD
10.MCH
11.AST
12.SCH
13.WHM
14.BLM
156.RDM
16.BLU
17.SMN
18.DNC
19.CRP
20.BSM
21.ARM
22.GSM
23.LWR
24.WVR
25.ALC
26.CUL
27.MIN
28.BOT
39.FSH


This leaves you with only six spaces, essentially FORCING players to put newly looted items into their inventories instead of the armory chest. If your Mining, Botany and Fishing are all at different levels, you're going to need to keep your old gear for the next profession. (Not weapon wise, but gear set wise.) Taking up even more space in the armory chest.

It's, really not enough room. Unless you're just banking on having a lot of regular invetory space instead.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

The armory weapon tab (35 spaces) is full when you are including:

ALL JOBS:

1.PLD
2.WAR
3.DRK
4.GNB
5.MNK
6.DRG
7.NIN
8.SAM
9.BRD
10.MCH
11.AST
12.SCH
13.WHM
14.BLM
15.ARC
16.RDM
17.BLU
18.SMN
19.DNC
20.CRP
21.BSM
22.ARM
23.GSM
24.LWR
25.WVR
26.ALC
27.CUL
28.MIN
29.BOT
30.FSH


This leaves you with only five space, essentially FORCING players to put newly looted items into their inventories instead of the armory chest. If your Mining, Botany and Fishing are all at different levels, you're going to need to keep your old gear for the next profession. (Not weapon wise, but gear set wise.) Taking up even more space in the armory chest.

It's, really not enough room. Unless you're just banking on having a lot of regular invetory space instead.

You have Arcanist, smn, and sch listed. its only 29. Still. plenty of room, and in fact, i prefer dungeon drops to go into my inventory instead of into my armory chest. Makes it easier to turn them in for seals.

[Angellos]

You have Arcanist, smn, and sch listed. its only 29. Still. plenty of room, and in fact, i prefer dungeon drops to go into my inventory instead of into my armory chest. Makes it easier to turn them in for seals.

Sorry, take out the ARC. But SCH and SMN have different weapons so those two need to stay different.

[Omymy]

This is what happens if you cater to all the casuals tbh.

FFXIV is a casual MMO, babe.

[Raqrie_Tohka]

I'll give one example:
SE designs this new 2-chest lockout system which is good for statics but much less so for everyone else.
2-chests is a major sorting condition for most PF parties, yet there is no option in PF settings to differ that.
This just shows SE plain did not respect the compatibility design of this content for PF. Did not respect the players who would have to engage in the design this way.
And they could have designed a counsel mechanic which gives you an extra relevant book for the clear, if you failed your roll on every piece of loot. (I know this particular part of the suggestion could be difficult to balance around but get the point behind it)
But you get the idea. Some things I say are not nice. But they make their own sense.

These are just small things. There are bigger, more overarching things. We fail to understand each other on these things despite effort.
But I hope SE will understand. That they do read things from players who give them suggestions via in-game support, or in a half-hearted forum post. That they understand they have not served all players successfully this expansion, that they have failed many more "silent and invisible" players. That I should not have to try so hard, against so much opposition, to try to make something good out of the worse experiences I've had in this game.
That their own people should have to sit through some of these things, physically, in a 1-1 timescale, to understand.

(Another example, there are city-chats in WoW but non in FFXIV. This is because the chat oppression is more present in FFXIV. And a city-wide chat or similar, would be prone to players venting frustration in-game.
SE does not want that. They want everything controlled, clean, positive.
There are many other things I can say, a lot which will not sound too nice nor are things SE wants to exist. SE would obviously much prefer the forums to be filled with players supporting and presenting everything they do in a positive light. I would too. But it is also because of people who are sensitive to risks, who think in radical perspectives, who extrapolate from these, that our world is as nice as it is today.)

I am tired. Perhaps SE does have reps who monitor forums and pass along constructive content. Or perhaps even their developers are too busy, too ... etc. to consider deviating from their own ivory tower views. I've seen both. I've seen both, in games, in game development and launch and operations. And both succeed and fail.
I just don't want to try anymore. Make of it all what you want.
It's only a game after all. There are much worse games and much worse forms of actual abuse, exploitation, oppression, etc.

But I'm done here. Thanks for at least entertaining your interest of me.

[yukiiyuki]

The great amount of 300!!! developers cant handle or even update their own engine, SE don't want to invest much into this game and everyone is fine with that.

[aesteval]

"SE will never understand why their game is not appealing to more players"

This is odd because it seemed like they were thrilled with how well and widespread Shadowbringers was received. ie: it sure looks like player interest exceeded their expectations.

Are you complaining about PF being dead? We're weeks away from new content and that's what happens during this sort of timeframe. And you know what else? The producer is on record, multiple times, encouraging players to take breaks now and again. Quiet time during a patch cycle feeds into the premise of allowing people to have some time to take a break. Whatever you think is wrong, it's entirely possible that the devs don't have the same concerns.