How do you guys think SE will accommodate more account/ wide features since Blizzcon?

[NekoMataMata]

I really don't think SE cares about whatever other games are doing. The game is still profitable, and XIV is still considered to be the best or second best MMO out there. There's not really any motivation for them to do anything.

There's a lot of things I want, including the list provided, but I don't think SE will deliver.

[Mayhemmer]

Snip.

People have reason enough to make multiple characters across multiple Worlds/Data Centers, and as this is a linear story-based game, it takes time to progress an individual character through content. If I unlocked the Rainmaker hairstyle from a limited-time event on one character, it's reasonable to have it on multiple characters. Many mounts are already account-wide, there's no reason why they can't extend that to other fields. No, there isn't a reason.

We don't care if Yoshi P has defended locked glamours. An overwhelming majority of the playerbase wants even some restrictions lifted. He could keep defending it, and we'd still ask for it to be changed.

Discord servers don't provide in-game benefits for Free Companies, Link Shells, or Communities.

[Jeeqbit]

People have reason enough to make multiple characters across multiple Worlds/Data Centers

A few, such as raid loot splits, helping people with clears on raid alts, RP alts, extra retainers without paying, selling items on other worlds, playing in other region's data centers, but these are all very niche reasons that don't apply to the majory of people.

It would be nice if they did it and help those minorities, don't get me wrong, but we also can't pretend there is as much need for it in this game as there is in WoW. In WoW it was a "this is really, badly needed" whereas here it would just be a "nice to have" but a "it's not likely to be SE's priority" sort of thing.

[Arrius]

I'd be happy if their cosmetic rewards/unlocks start at Level 1, which is often not the case.

[TaleraRistain]

While I do think XIV could use some changes to make it more alt-friendly and some sort of solution for everyone gathering on a single DC that won't hurt the community at large and something a bit more with glamour, I don't see the issue if XIV doesn't do some other things that WoW is doing. I'd rather XIV stick to its own identity and implement things that make sense or in ways that make sense. It's okay if WoW is more appealing to some because then XIV will appeal to others. All MMOs don't have to be the same.

It would be nice if they did it and help those minorities, don't get me wrong, but we also can't pretend there is as much need for it in this game as there is in WoW. In WoW it was a "this is really, badly needed" whereas here it would just be a "nice to have" but a "it's not likely to be SE's priority" sort of thing.

Another good point. The way things are set up can affect what a game truly needs. In WoW, you can only be a single class. If you want to try anything else, you need an alt. Here we can be all classes on the same character. There are good reasons to have alts and this game can be unfriendly to the idea, but it does have that key difference with WoW.

[DPZ2]

For the OP:

It only took 20 years for Blizzard to start providing all of those new features mentioned. That, and a change in ownership. Whether World of Warcraft lives up to expectations or not is entirely up to their new Masters: Microsoft.

And Microsoft is making it easier to run this game on their Console, so ... both of them will make money for the company now.

[Tsumdere]

Bugger it didn't put it, but I said DC wide.

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It's genuinely great that WoW is making these changes because it will light a fire under SE's butt. It's very hard to ignore the competition when they keep consistently making changes that your own playerbase has been begging for. Shadowlands was pretty damn poor which likely made them complacent, but Dragonflight was a step up and we can only hope that it keeps going up to make SE sweat and prioritize popular requests like glamour log/glamour lifting.

A few, such as raid loot splits, helping people with clears on raid alts, RP alts, extra retainers without paying, selling items on other worlds, playing in other region's data centers, but these are all very niche reasons that don't apply to the majory of people.

It would be nice if they did it and help those minorities, don't get me wrong, but we also can't pretend there is as much need for it in this game as there is in WoW. In WoW it was a "this is really, badly needed" whereas here it would just be a "nice to have" but a "it's not likely to be SE's priority" sort of thing.

It's not a priority in the grand scheme of things, but it would be welcome to a lot of people than you think. Making a change that would make both raiders and RPers happy (probably your people who spend the most/play the most) is pretty huge I think. Also, there is probably a lot of regular players who just don't make alts because of the idea of regrinding everything. This is precious player retention and play time they are losing. Altaholic is a term for a reason. I have four alts. I really only need one for split-raiding, but I just simply like alts.

[LilimoLimomo]

but this is an arms race, and Blizzard just showed their hand.

To which I respectfully ask: is it?

Because beyond these kinds of supplemental features, WoW and FF14 offer fundamentally different experiences. I don't want what WoW is selling, and I do want what FF14 is selling. Tossing features like cross-world guilds and improved glamour systems on WoW doesn't sweeten their deal because to use those systems I would have to play a game I simply don't want to play.

Would things like a better glam system improve FF14? Absolutely! I'd love that, and we players should push for that. Is a game like WoW a great place to get ideas of features we'd like to see in FF14? Heck yeah it is.

But will the disparity between FF14's and WoW's glamour and social systems determine which of these two games I play? Absolutely not.

[Reap00]

Bugger it didn't put it, but I said DC wide.

If you haven't seen it, Blizzcon was just this past weekend, and with it, they unveiled a plethora of features that will be accessible to all of your characters. After years of complaints and criticisms, they have seemingly solved a lot of the really big issues of alts within World of Warcraft. With features like cross realm guilds and cross realm mythic raiding, transmog(glamour) restrictions being lifted(all classes can wear all armor), cross realm grouping, account unlocks galore, and etc.

While in this game, none of those features exist. Sure, we have cross realm link shells and communities, but they are limited to your DC.

I think going forward, we need something. Because at this rate, World of Warcraft is looking far, far more appealing. We have worse flying now, glamour systems, free companies, endgame progression(I would imagine it's still an rng clown fiesta, but accessibility is why I said it cross realm mythic raiding etc.), and casual progression since it sounds like Wow is actually making criterion the right way, storage systems, and much more.

I'm not here to say x game is better than x game. I'm really not, but this is an arms race, and Blizzard just showed their hand.

And even if they don't go the alt route, give us cross data center Party Finder and cross datacenter Duty Finder and cross datacenter Free Companies. Give us more than what we have.

The ball is in your court SE. I'm just saying.

So go play WoW. SE doesn't have to add those features to XIV. Blizzard finally got off their asses and went to work instead of drinking the employee breast milk? Bravo. I guarantee you whatever they presented was smoke and mirrors. The players will get shafted in the end in some way. You keep believing in that trash company though. They need your dollars. I wouldn't give them a penny.

[Tahbitha]

Transmogrification Collection: This system will expand to allow players on one character to add additional class specific items that they can’t equip to their transmog collection. This allows a player on a mage character to collect a warrior item and be able to add it to the transmog collection for use on your warrior character instead.

That honestly is a pretty cool thing, I wished they'd done this back when I was still playing.

But it won't bring me back to WoW, though. I'm not sure anything will, and I have over a decade of time there.