FFXIV's technical limitations are beginning to concern me.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

pandering to players on potato consoles is one of the biggest things holding this game back.

Actually, they've said it's the people playing on potato pcs now, not consoles.

[ReynTime]

yeah, I feel you.

I nearly quit MMORPGs around 2015 and the only reason why I kept playing them after that was due to being invited into beta after beta after beta and my friends at the time telling me to go play X or Y game again because "it's better now" until basically i'm where I am now. yes, I'm currently focusing on xiv right now but real talk i'm not sure if I'll stay or even keep this account in the future since I discarded my legacy account back in the day that I also used to stream with on justintv with from time to time. now though? there isn't many or any mmorpgs that are keeping my attention as much as they use too. it's not due to me getting older or slower, nah. It's because I'm just seeing more and more mmorpgs just basically release the same game just under different textures, lore, and what not. there's really no creativity anymore in the mmorpg field and xiv isn't much better. I mean they've done away with alot of systems I truly enjoyed in 1.0. like the seemingly no loading screens thing, being able to converse with basically all npcs ingame and a few more like how traveling was less teleporting and flying and more walking to x or y area, and so on all in favor for making it more like WoW. Yea, the game has it's charm now but... whatever it doesn't matter anymore. I'll just keep my lip bit since my style isn't popular with this generation it seems. I luckily still got one of my former pals 1.0. full playthrough playlist to always go back too and watch for now at least.

Can I ask for who that is? There is only one player I know who made complete footage of almost everything they did in-game and that's Ashiee Horokeu.
I'd love to have more recorded footage if there's any.

[znushu]

Can I ask for who that is? There is only one player I know who made complete footage of almost everything they did in-game and that's Ashiee Horokeu.
I'd love to have more recorded footage if there's any.

Sure but the guy discarded his accounts and toons like years ago and i'm 90% sure they don't even have that toon anymore. It's like 276 hours long and it's basically like everything in 1.0.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...8BF680D575542E

[Lium]

Not sure if it's been mentioned already but over on Reddit and even on the main competitor's website, the consensus is that no company could have anticipated the massive influx of players during what is supposed to be a relatively quiet time during an expansion cycle. This is normally a lull in content time. What FFXIV is experiencing right now is a confluence of events that led to the current situation and honestly, they are good problems to have. For now anyway. These are first world problems and many MMOs would LOVE to be dealing with this right now because it would mean their MMO has become massively popular.

Now, a year from now if we are still talking about this, that would not be a good thing because I hope SE adjusts to being the new market leader for MMOs in the West.

[GrizzlyTank]

If they increase the inventory/glamour dresser size again they will plainly contradict their own argument about not having enough data for a glamour log.

A glamour log should have been high on their priority list since it would resolve one of the biggest issues with the game, namely having to repeatedly fight your own interface because you are out of storage space.

[Iscah]

So if you remember how Calamity's work they affect everything on the Source so the entire planet all at once. At the end of 2.55 you were being hunted and had to goto Ishgard right? Well you could just teleport right back to Ul'dah and walk around like nothing happened. There are things that can happen in the storyline to move it forward but still have the zones available.

Also who says it needs to be the First? By my count there are 5 other shards that could collapse to trigger another Calamity excluding the 13th.

Did you pay attention to the bit where "affecting the whole planet at once" meant reducing the whole planet to a barren wasteland with most of the population (including our character) dying and the remaining few going to war over what resources remained?

That's not the sort of reset button you hit as an excuse to fix some coding issues.

[TeraRamis]

If they increase the inventory/glamour dresser size again they will plainly contradict their own argument about not having enough data for a glamour log.

A glamour log should have been high on their priority list since it would resolve one of the biggest issues with the game, namely having to repeatedly fight your own interface because you are out of storage space.

Unfortunately, my current situation with glamours is an emergency. I'm maxed, I have nothing I am willing to delete, and I therefore can no longer buy store sets or roll on dungeon drops (this is not a case of me hoarding stuff, either. I am clinging to just unique/hard-to-acquire items and weapons. I no longer have any leveling gear for alts or anything like that). The fact that they released a statement just last week regarding not expanding the glamour system because of nebulous "limitations" makes me think they are back-burnering this entire issue until well into Endwalker (if EVER), AND that they haven't (and don't) view it as an urgent matter for a significant number of players in my same boat.

Simply put: that's not going to work for me. Because, like I said, my status with glams is red alert right now... not 12 months from now. And as glamours are kind of the whole game for me... that sort of signals a pending 'game over.'

[Puremallace]

Did you pay attention to the bit where "affecting the whole planet at once" meant reducing the whole planet to a barren wasteland with most of the population (including our character) dying and the remaining few going to war over what resources remained?

That's not the sort of reset button you hit as an excuse to fix some coding issues.

ok ok! We know the Calamity is coming. Put everyone into stasis or pull out the time travel card again. The Barren Wasteland took 5 years to grow back if you look at this MMO's lore.

[Arillyn]

ok ok! We know the Calamity is coming. Put everyone into stasis or pull out the time travel card again. The Barren Wasteland took 5 years to grow back if you look at this MMO's lore.

For SE to do this calamity thing again... and to do it where they can actually fix all the issues, they'd need longer than the 2 years they took to build 2.0 (and mind you they started that WHILE 1.0 was still running and SE was patching and fixing 1.0). They had to split the team to fix 1.0 while rebuilding 2.0.

At this point if they had to to do another calamity and blow up the game to fix base functionality of the game and code - just build a new MMO altogether. But that's a huge cost and risk and they have two successful mmos already running. Don't see this happening anytime soon.

They only did what they did for 2.0 because 1.0 almost sunk the entire company, it was a blight on the franchise, and there was NO way to fix 1.0 without blowing it up. FFXIV as it is now is no where near the levels of 1.0 to even think about blowing it up again.

[Brennus]

1. Glam counts can't be expanded.
2. New players can only roll on certain servers during extremely limited windows.
3. Current players see intermittent alt creation restrictions.
4. The website 'runs out' of digital copies of the game.
5. There's almost always a queue.
6. There are always restrictions in place on marriages.
7. The mogstation is a clunky mess (albeit slightly improved) that feels like it dates from 2005.
8. There are weird systems for everything: retainers, crafting, gear swaps, glamour (the prisms, the plates, the dresser, the armoire).

I agree 100%. I'm a recent WoW refugee, and so far I love the game and intend on playing it as my only MMO for the foreseeable future. However I've been mystified by the clunkiness and unfriendly nature of several aspects of the game's user interface, including the MogStation.

1. It took many many, persistent, and frustrating tries to figure out how to buy the game. I'd started playing way back in mid-2020, except I gave up on the effort to sign on to an existing SE account I'd owned for several years.
2. When I came back at the beginning of 2021, again I struggled to purchase the game and sign on to my existing account, almost gave up again. It wasn't until after a friend kept insisting I keep trying that I finally succeeded and got myself set up to start playing, in April of this year.
3. While I love many things about the game, I think the Glamour system sucks big time. Here SE should take a look at how WoW does it with their Transmog implementation. It's by no means perfect, but vastly superior to the terribly limited system we have in FFXIV.
4. The personal storage limitations are also annoying. I have now a total of 8 retainers, because I want to play with several crafting and both gathering jobs, and I need all the extra storage the retainers give me.
5. Speaking of purchasing extra retainers: I experienced frustration *again* going through the MogStation and figuring out how to get this accomplished. There is also *NO SEARCH FUNCTION* on that site. What the hey? If I want to purchase anything there, I have to scroll page after page in each category to find what I'm looking for. This is not the case where legacy code somehow limits what can be done to a site. Any self-respecting commercial site has a search feature. Most personal blogs do. But MogStation doesn't? Unbelievable.
6. Lastly, why do I run into a queue to log in every time, no matter what the time of day? With the new influx of players, and EW launching in November, I shudder at what will be happening as we approach that date.

TL;DR: Aye, SE, please dedicate a team to QoL issues for FFXIV. It's annoying now, but it can get worse and worse, and will start to impact the pleasure of playing your gorgeous and otherwise quite fun game. :-)