SE needs to listen, to improve FFXIV

[Caitlyn]

1. HOUSING. Make it instanced or extend appartements at least. And please get rid off the random timer, because its not needed anymore.

2. GLAMOUR. More slots on wardrope. 1.000 or 1.200 would be nice. And please add it as furniture for Housing.

3. RAIDS. Stop restricting loot when someone joins with kill already. Having one friend helping out almost ends with 1 or 0 chests. Especially because of the lack of healers, it would be nice, that ppl with ID wont affect loot for the group. You can make it, that the one with IDs wont get any loot this week, but the group still get 2 chests.

4. CHARACTER CREATION. More options please.

5. MOUNTS. Add wings as mounts : D

[RoyalBeef]

3. RAIDS. Stop restricting loot when someone joins with kill already. Having one friend helping out almost ends with 1 or 0 chests. Especially because of the lack of healers, it would be nice, that ppl with ID wont affect loot for the group. You can make it, that the one with IDs wont get any loot this week, but the group still get 2 chests.

This so much.
Would a couple of parties exploit this to get more loot out of it? Probably. But honestly, who cares? The vast majority doesn't have multiple alts and doesn't even want to go through the effort of "exploiting" tho. If irl gets in the wy so you didnt get your clear right after reset, you're pretty much fked. Wanna train e4s eventhough your static is still progging e3s and they dont have time before thursday? Well, too bad, you can't do practice bc you'll be ruining loot for the 7 other people of your static. The whole system is a complete mess, and that comes from someone that is pretty lucky with rolls, I've seen people who didn't win a a single piece in 20 kills.

[Melichoir]

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The trouble is that there is no "area" which outright shoots down this plane generally. Its more apt to say, keeping with your analogy, that the average player who quits suffers to much overall damage to the structure of the plane it only takes a small bit to shoot it down.

In any case, we are seeing the ebb and flow of players real time, something that is built into the game. No amount of money is going to make it so that we'll have fresh and new content every month or so. It's just not a feasible business model, and probably isnt healthy for the game realistically. There can be such thing as to much to do, counter intuitive as that may sound. There are also other factors to consider here too. I personally am not aware of the full extent of play habits of our eastern peers, but I know that western audiences savagely devour content. Our appetites for stuff to do and game to play is pretty absurd when you get down to brass tacks. We, as an audience, burn through new content rapidly, opting to play it to death than space it out and enjoy it slowly. How many people got to 80 in a day or two when ShB dropped? How many people got there in a week? Id hazard quite a few got to 80 pretty quickly, and a fair some (1/3 to 1/2 Id guess) probably got to 80 in a week or so. It took me two-three weeks IIRC to get to 80. That was me taking my time and rolling around doing all sorts of stuff. But I know I wasnt the norm.

This is part of the problem. Even if devs had more time and money, it wouldnt be enough. Thered still be lulls in content, still be people saying "Theres nothing to do." and so on. This gets complicated because people have their own wheel house and dont venture from it. People power level alt classes instead of playing them. They skip cutscenes, dont play Hildebrand, turn there noses up at GS, dont try crafting/gathering, etc. Theres a ton of content in this game, but people by pass it or power through it without reading any text. Plenty of people havent cleared 04S, 08S, or 012S. Why not go back and play those fights unsynced for fun? It's a blast in an FC run, even if people arent great at savage.

The game is appealing, btw, to a pretty large audience. Its sub count has been steady or climbing overall from what I understand. If were trying to measure its success compared to WoW at it's height, FF is never gonna stack up. No MMO will. WoW is a very specific case of being in the right place, right time, with the right set of ideas. And I dont think they're focused on pleasing their dedicated players, per se. I think they're more focused on creating a solid product that has a fairly wide appeal to the average MMO player. They dont always hit the nail on the head, but theyre doing an alright job for what they got. Particularly with ShB.

If people are burning out, or not finding fun, maybe it is best they step away from the game. I dont just play FFXIV. I play all sorts of other games, or watch tv, or go places. Part of what keeps a game interesting is moderation too. Like anything, to much is a bad thing. Pizza is amazing, but if I have it 3 meals a day, 365 days a year, Im probably gonna hate the stuff after a few months, let alone a year.

[Arthrun]

I do not bother with PF because I have found a reliable static group to do things for 2 hours a night for 2 nights. That's it really.

Also I have kind of been happier stepping away from Raiding scene and working on housing and professions as my current end game. I have a loooooooooong way to go. Also RP'ing with my FC has been taking up entirely too much of my time.....the game is currently catering towards my tastes.

[Melichoir]

3. RAIDS. Stop restricting loot when someone joins with kill already. Having one friend helping out almost ends with 1 or 0 chests. Especially because of the lack of healers, it would be nice, that ppl with ID wont affect loot for the group. You can make it, that the one with IDs wont get any loot this week, but the group still get 2 chests.

Theyre trying to mitigate against carrying people for gear to fast. Pretty much what they dont want to happen is by week 4 people just run groups of 6 or 7 who can clear the content and power gear one person by letting them have all the chest drops. Why bother trying to Clear the Tier for Gear when if you have enough Gil, you could just buy your clears and get geared. Now people would be able to do this eventually, sure, but they are slowing that down by forcing people whove cleared to not party with people who dont unless they dont want chests. Particularly with the last boss of the tier.

[Vidu]

Just a little sidenote in regards to PF being "dead" here on Light - same DC as OP: Its 8:30pm on a monday evening right now and I counted one PF for E1S, two for E2S, 4 for E3S and 6 for E4S... we're about 12 hours away from the weekly reset.

[RoyalBeef]

Theyre trying to mitigate against carrying people for gear to fast. Pretty much what they dont want to happen is by week 4 people just run groups of 6 or 7 who can clear the content and power gear one person by letting them have all the chest drops. Why bother trying to Clear the Tier for Gear when if you have enough Gil, you could just buy your clears and get geared. Now people would be able to do this eventually, sure, but they are slowing that down by forcing people whove cleared to not party with people who dont unless they dont want chests. Particularly with the last boss of the tier.

Honestly, who cares if people buy clears? As you already stated, they already do anyway. Setting up a system that sucks for 99% of raiders just to slow down the 1% from buying/selling clears is stupid. There's a point where the negative impact on enjoyment of the game outweighs the positive effect of that restriction. You don't want people selling raid clears in your game? Then don't design raids that can be done in only 7 minutes with only 8 people because they're just a single room with 1 boss.

[Kazamma]

This is the topic where you can make suggestions for the game, if I understand correctly?=)
I only reached level 70 .. I have never been in savage raids. But I played many games (mainly WOW and Ragnarok Online). I really like this game, so I left the creation of Blizzard. In WOW, I was the top 5-7 support in the world. And I’m very tired of the pressure on me and of the WOW toxicity. That's why I don’t want to be in raids and in guilds. I do not want to depend on time and be responsible for something.
This game really surprised me with the players. I have not met such patient and kind people in other games.
I’m going through the main scenario for the first time .. and I must admit, even Hachiko did not make me express as many emotions as the main story of the game.
Dungeons I would like to see more hard content in this game. I mean the dungeons and the battles with the primals. Do something like keys in WOW (with delicious rewards for completing the dungeon). And add beautiful clothes, a chance to get a mount, improved equipment, items and more.

Items In Ragnarok I really liked the card system. From every creature in the game, with a very small chance, you can get a card. Each creature has its own card (Bosses also have their own cards, they can give more advantages of course, not such as immortality, etc., but the chance to get it is equal to 0.01%). These cards can be inserted into equipment (like melding). And give you some benefits when you wear them in your clothes. For example:
Apkallu card - Max SP +10%, SP Regen +2
Nariphon card - Avoid sleeping effect
Li'l Murderer card - Ranged Attack Damage + 5%.
Domovoi - Increase damage on Boss monster by 10%.
Croc card - Receive 5% less damage from Long Range attack.
Koja card - Enables use of Level 1 some kind of spell of some class.
And so on.
It would be nice to see such a thing in the game as Speed Potion (a potion which increases the moving speed of a character for a duration).

Character And it would be great if I had the opportunity to hide the cat's tail in underpants or under a dress. Make more hairstyles, more facial creation variations.
Housing I am very offended that someone is driving me out of my own home when I go to bed there. I enter the game and I am on the street. It's not fair xD I would like to see a glamour dresser and a mini market in the house.

[Caitlyn]

Theyre trying to mitigate against carrying people for gear to fast. Pretty much what they dont want to happen is by week 4 people just run groups of 6 or 7 who can clear the content and power gear one person by letting them have all the chest drops. Why bother trying to Clear the Tier for Gear when if you have enough Gil, you could just buy your clears and get geared. Now people would be able to do this eventually, sure, but they are slowing that down by forcing people whove cleared to not party with people who dont unless they dont want chests. Particularly with the last boss of the tier.

Sure, a valid point. But its kinda weird to reset the loot by 50% when only 12,5% of the group got ID already. I would understand if 4 people already got the kill so you reduce the loot by the same amount. PF groups are f***ed, because healers are even more rare these days.

[Iscah]

This is the topic where you can make suggestions for the game, if I understand correctly?=)

No, it's the topic where one person decided Square Enix is failing as a company, because they're not doing the things that person thinks they need to be doing so the game is successful.

I doubt the developers are actually reading it for suggestions.