i think in 7.x they need to return and work on "forgotte" systems in place of new one

[magitekLuna]

Chocobo Companion.

Hasn't really been touched since ARR. They still have accuracy traits despite accuracy being removed in Stormblood.

ye this one is a really strange thing to me. even more so when you see how much yoshi want to make this a solo game now days. why not make more companions

a lot of issues simply boil down to - cost. is it worth it to revisit these old systems versus working on new ones.

but a new one cost more as it need to be made from 0 over a older one that need to be expended or just add a new reword to it

I'll freely admit that this is whataboutism, but if you think that FFXIV has a lot of forgotten content, you should check out Warframe or WoW. Also, underwater content? In Guild Wars 2? That's been neglected for years now. FFXIV isn't perfect by any stretch, but grass being greener on someone else's lawn is a thing for a reason.

don't get me wrong i just give an example of a good under water combat nothing more. as for what other games forget or not is of no relevance

[Bravura]

I'd like to see them expand the original zones in ARR and add FFXI-inspired, maze-like cave systems to them, that start with low level mobs, but the deeper you go you'll eventually need to team up. I'd love it even more if these areas had no map, or the maps were difficult to get. Surely this would infuse new life into these old zones? It would also make it so that new players get to see advanced players passing by, which is always exciting and intriguing as a new adventurer.

I'd also love to see more risk involved for gatherers, or at least for those gatherers who'd like some adventure, where you would have to sneak around and becareful to get to a special node. Also, in general, I'd love it if the nodes simply moved around much more, and in more hard to reach places, so you get to see more of the beautiful zones.

[NekoMataMata]

This game has always had an issue of forsaking and abandoning older systems, yeah. It would be nice to see them rework those into either something that can flourish or just in general to extend it.

I'm actually most scared about Ocean Fishing in this regard as I love it. Yet I also know they won't really bother to update it.

Unless they make some serious changes to fishing though Ocean Fishing will probably be fine. For some reason unlike other older content prior to EW where experience for jobs past level 80 is absolutely destroyed Ocean Fishing actually still gives really good experience(it felt like it still scaled from 80-90, where as even Diadem which wasn't bad for 80-90 Botany or Mining felt like it didn't scale past 80).

[Midareyukki]

a lot of issues simply boil down to - cost. is it worth it to revisit these old systems versus working on new ones.

They work off of Sprints, it's Agile Development. So they have more than ample time to assess costs. If they ever wanted to revisit these older systems, they frankly could allocate costs for a long-term thing. Alternatively, you sure going back to older systems and adding to them is costlier than making up a whole new one? Because half the code would already be there, no? Rather than doing one from scratch?

I'll freely admit that this is whataboutism, but if you think that FFXIV has a lot of forgotten content, you should check out Warframe or WoW. Also, underwater content? In Guild Wars 2? That's been neglected for years now. FFXIV isn't perfect by any stretch, but grass being greener on someone else's lawn is a thing for a reason.

I kinda like GW2's underwater combat, even if it's barebones as all hell. Though I don't think underwater combat in 14 would work as well as people think it would. There's some semblance of verticality in GW2, you'd have to make it up in 14.

Still, though the grass may be greener, it's not necessarily the last nail on thoughts like these. Quite a lot could be perfected and expanded upon. So even if it's normal for MMOs to give up on systems and stuff, it's not that much of a detriment if it ends up giving way to something good.

Though would all that OP and co. suggested go through? Obviously not. But odds are something could :|

Grass is always greener, sure, but as long as you have a lawn you can still do stuff with it.

[Burmecia]

Chocobo Companion.

I want to be able to glamour my chocobo into some other creature!

[ThaCa]

Chocobo racing could use total overhaul and go mario-kart way (or Choco GP whatever).

GC ranks and Squadrons are pretty dead. Airships are pretty dead. Diadem could be expanded in some ways.

Deep Dungeons could use some minor tweaks (like increase rewards from clear speed to make them more in line with dungeons in exp with good groups).

Even the more active systems could use expanding.

[Raikai]

This game has always had an issue of forsaking and abandoning older systems, yeah. It would be nice to see them rework those into either something that can flourish or just in general to extend it.

I'm actually most scared about Ocean Fishing in this regard as I love it. Yet I also know they won't really bother to update it.

I might be still scarred from my WoW times, because I think XIV does a good job in keeping older content relevant at some extent without touching it. WoW literally makes (or used to, dunno how it is now) their old expansion features 100% irrelevant and sometimes even deleting them altogether.

[Deveryn]

I'll freely admit that this is whataboutism, but if you think that FFXIV has a lot of forgotten content, you should check out Warframe or WoW. Also, underwater content? In Guild Wars 2? That's been neglected for years now. FFXIV isn't perfect by any stretch, but grass being greener on someone else's lawn is a thing for a reason.

Yep. The grass is greener because it's watered regularly.

[Espon]

Bring back Guildhests!!!

[magitekLuna]

I might be still scarred from my WoW times, because I think XIV does a good job in keeping older content relevant at some extent without touching it. WoW literally makes (or used to, dunno how it is now) their old expansion features 100% irrelevant and sometimes even deleting them altogether.

out side the one's that relevant to lvling i dont tihnk they do, even then it can be much more fun to the players.