If we get ten more years of final fantasy xiv expansions...

[Shurrikhan]

I'm kind of hoping for a completely new arc starting in 7.0, with an alternate intro for maybe 1-20 and a level-scaled MSQ thereafter with no requirement that every player go through ARR to Endwalker to reach 7.0's endgame (though it'd be useful for alt-leveling, etc.). Player levels would probably be squished down to 50 and then some build choice involved over the level cap extensions thereafter, as opposed to the classically bloated 2 actives and 3 passives (or what will later be sensibly reduced to passives, as per BotD or Enochian), as we increase from there in increments of 5 or 10, depending on the number of expansions to go before XIV's grave.

* Ideally, I'd like that build choice to flesh out the "all jobs on one character" concept a bit further or maybe even give further purpose for revisiting past content (as a form of horizontal progression).

[Zarkovitch]

stat squash. Please looking foward to it.

[Floortank]

I love XIV, but it does not have ten years left.

It will obviously run for ten or twenty more years, but the game has nothing left to show us.

[Wingale]

I wish for a new race.
But in term of 10 years long run in the future, I personally think it will run its course and there'll be a new FF MMORPG. FFXIV will continue live on like FFXI and maybe there'll be a new dev / new team take the torch from Yoshi-P and his team.
And for Yoshi-P himself, I think he will retire from the producer and work behind the scence instead or maybe he will retire form SQEX and game industry and live his quiet life somewhere

[UkcsAlias]

Me personally, I wouldn't mind if they try something new, have us all start level 1 again like in Eureka, but start with new gameplay mechanics/battle system changes etc from there.

I actualy dont hope about such approach. But i think that the hud itself and all the abilities on it can start to become a problem at some point, and the improvements here could hopefully change up things quite a bit.

I think the only way to more reliably handle this is by giving players the ability of having dynamic hotbars that they can switch themselve without any delays. For example by having buttons to switch hotbars (repeatedly pressing a button to go to the next pr previous bar, or 1 button to go to a specific one). But i guess this is not going to be easily managable for console players.

However, if we have such dynamic hotbars, and for example only have 3 normal bars within easy reach. You could set 1 to toggle between for example a healer stance and fight stance (and as you can change that 10x per second - its client side after all - you can still mix these). And by this can finaly give healers some proper DPS tools as hot bar density should no longer be an issue. As abilities can be placed multiple times on a hotbar, you can always have those abilities on the other bars as well, even if its just for following its timer.
And if there is effectively no limit (lets say you can have 8 of these dynamic sets), you can do quite a lot. Balance wise they might still decide to limit it to just 5 bars worth of abilities (instead of 3). but this should delay the issue for a quite a while.

But i guess storage wise this will add a LOT of data again (each job potentialy having 8 bars). However, if it works, then this opens up a lot of options again and can easily give new features for several expansion.

[Aniya_Estlihn]

I'm kind of hoping for a completely new arc starting in 7.0, with an alternate intro for maybe 1-20 and a level-scaled MSQ thereafter with no requirement that every player go through ARR to Endwalker to reach 7.0's endgame

They already revealed in the Next Ten Years livestream earlier this year that players in 7.0 will have the option to start at 6.1.

[Illmaeran]

I honestly can almost never distinguish players by looks alone unless they're using a very distinctive glam set-up and/or an unconventional skin tone/hair color combo.

Even just looking at people's avatars on the forums there's a very obvious preference for the "natural" tones in the latter regard.

Grey skin for the win.

[Xaruko_Nexume]

Am I the only one comfortable and content if they just continue the status quo? I think most who feel like me are not on the forums or social media. New expansion, new msq, 10 new levels, new dungeons, new allied raid, new raid, etc. Formula works well for me. its comfortable and something I prefer about this game.

[Illmaeran]

I'd be happy if they continued going they way they have been until new content development ends.

[Ransu]

Am I the only one comfortable and content if they just continue the status quo? I think most who feel like me are not on the forums or social media. New expansion, new msq, 10 new levels, new dungeons, new allied raid, new raid, etc. Formula works well for me. its comfortable and something I prefer about this game.

I'd say the large majority outside the forums are perfectly fine with the game. The forums isn't even 1% of the total player base.