If it ever did happen, what would like to see in the next FFXIV MMORPG?

[ElazulHP]

Honestly, I'd rather see another Square IP get an MMO. Like Chrono Trigger or an action combat MMO set in the Legend of Mana world.

[tymora]

1. Seamless, large, interesting areas.
2. Single global shard/server. I want to see the "Massive" in MMO.
3. NPCs with livelihoods. Down with player convenience and no disturbing NPC peace at 3am in the morning!
4. No quest hubs. Except for story progression quests, true dynamic quests. i.e. Help that baker bake bread in the morning, save NPCs in trouble in random, no repeat events.
5. True (balanced) cross job proficiencies with real useful stats balancing. i.e. "A super smart BLM is also super fragile"..."A super stout PLD is also super slow".
6. More engaging combat.

[Soge01]

No more problems with limitations and "limitations", and for SE to start funding and growing Yoshida's team properly and stop using them as a piggie bank!

[Ilyrian]

Less instancing.

[OniKimoto]

No freaking bots or RMT spam.

[Luluna]

A world that is alive a bit like FFXI and this game before ARR. More danger and atmosphere and better character creation.

A merit system like XI so all the extra exp does not go to waste. More thought on travel like actually boarding the ferry and airships like in version one and XI.

Please less dodge the AOE its so bad to many fights are dancing and no thought, I would like to take time to think.

[Astrus]

Here's the things I can think of off the top of my head. Hide buttons used to save space.
Things to keep:

• The level of writing as of ShB.
  
• Having all jobs on one character if one so chooses.

Things to do different/better:

• A UI that does not need three different interactions to do one thing.
  
• Instanced housing/houses that are not a nightmare to get and then hold your subscription hostage as upkeep. Since we're talking a completely new game we may as well do what WildStar did and allow players to build their own small neighborhoods (or not).
  
• Better polished PvP. If we do PvP at all we may as well do it proper and not give it the red-headed stepchild treatment where it exists just to tick a box. Simply not having PvP is also an option even if that will exclude part of the potential playerbase.
  
• A proper collection/glamour catalog.
  
• A (preferably moderated) global chat so people can stop treating the Novice Network as a workaround and actually use it to help with player to player help.
  
• Consistency with the Voice Acting. Either do all of the sequences voiced or do none of them. Not this hodgepodge we have now. Ideally, voice all the things.
  
• Let us exchange the weekly token of choice from duties for the rare drops of said duties. As in pets, orchestrion rolls and the like. At a terrible rate of course because they want to keep them somewhat exclusive but at least it would be some form of bad luck protection for the collectors out there.
  
• No more "limited" things. Find a way to do jobs (and races I suppose) as a complete package that can do all the things other options in the category can do together with them, or don't present them to us as an option at all. If a "job" is going to be pretty much relegated to a minigame then keep it exclusive to that minigame and be done with it.
  
• Combat effect scaling that is more than an on/off switch. I want to see effects happening, I also want to be able to see what the boss does.
  
• Fixing the inventory struggles. Expecting players to pay extra money for a bandaid fix is not a solution.
  
• Actual healer balance. And this does not mean giving us the same class with a different coat of paint four times.
  
• If we do get a way to do required group content solo with NPCs be consistent in the system used and don't use a different system each expansion that is not backwards compatible.

[EtherRose]

No one really? Action Combat.

[Atreides]

Less instancing.

Oh yeah that, I know people are always hyped for housing but imo this is doing more damage than good because it's less likely to run into eachother by chance in this game since everyone is either sitting all day in their own house or FC housing area...

[Voltron_HD]

Honestly no. I rather they upgrade the engine on FFXIV. Update 14 to look like a 2020 game instead of a 2010 game. Hardware has come leaps and bounds. Start with what the ps5 can handle and work your way up.