Suggestion: I did a small experiment, and FF14 needs some audio FX upgrades

[Minako_Nightsong]

The devs seem willing to touch up the game here and there but they usually won't touch the "core" from 1.0. The sounds, a lot of the old combat animations, nothing. This game kinda suffers from its 1.0 origins as the devs say it limits a lot of things. I think you would get this response to overhauling the old sound files.

The devs also seem hesitant to update older content. It has been like pulling teeth just to get them to streamline the 2.x questlines that often cost them, potential players. They have also stated they can or will not update the older world maps or add new things to the old content like more Chocobo ranks.

I personally think the Heavy Shot sound and animation is awful. Sounds like pulling on a wet rope and the arrow is pulled a foot away from your chest. I wish things like this could be fixed.

[Rai_Takara]

The devs seem willing to touch up the game here and there but they usually won't touch the "core" from 1.0. The sounds, a lot of the old combat animations, nothing. This game kinda suffers from its 1.0 origins as the devs say it limits a lot of things. I think you would get this response to overhauling the old sound files.

The devs also seem hesitant to update older content. It has been like pulling teeth just to get them to streamline the 2.x questlines that often cost them, potential players. They have also stated they can or will not update the older world maps or add new things to the old content like more Chocobo ranks.

I personally think the Heavy Shot sound and animation is awful. Sounds like pulling on a wet rope and the arrow is pulled a foot away from your chest. I wish things like this could be fixed.

They updated the combat voice sounds and while some people like them, some of us do not. The new voices are just off. I think if they were to ever update the sounds it would have to be an option (like adding new voices instead of changing existing ones). Changing the existing sound effects might be nice but it has the potential to introduce problems which didn't exist prior in terms of user acceptance.