Please don't add the autorun

[Selsix]

Thanks for detailed answer, didn't realise it was that much.

I still maintain if the auto-run is optional, it's a "whatever" feature, that some people might enjoy.

You're missing two important ceveats however.

1. Adding this may impact map design. They would need the maps to be designed for auto-pathing and likely remove aggro'able mobs from the auto path so players don't die during transit. This will potentially limit map design very heavily.

2. The maps are already dead. They should be thinking up ways to breathe more life into the open world, not remove it. If people are just going AFK to watch TikToks between quest objectives, we now don't even have people actively questing, just mindless zombies essentially waiting for a loading screen.

We aren't protesting because we don't want people to have a feature they might like. We are protesting because this could impact map design negatively and would take even more life out of an already dead open world.

[NecroprincessCleo]

eh i mean Autorun is kind of one those things i dont understand on either side, it just movement to get from point a to point b, and you can already do that basicly with the autorun button thats in the game, that i use to not get kicked out of the game when im afk

[ForteNightshade]

I highly doubt the auto-run will be a forced mechanic. They won’t remove the manual run at all.

Even if it's literally just an auto run and nothing else changes. That is still the dev team focusing on something the game doesn't need nor that any one really wants. Which takes time and resources away from other aspects of the game. The last thing XIV needs is yet more simplification.

Trust system exists for people wanting to play alone, I don’t see the connection with it and the fact dungeons are all same easy design.

Several older dungeons were intentionally simplified because Trusts couldn't do their original mechanics. Likewise, every dungeon now needs to be made to accommodate the basic of Trusts. This is why you'll never see anything overly complex or interesting in dungeon design. While Trusts aren't the only reason for how samey dungeons have become, they've contributed to it.

[Ankhira]

I get peoples aversion to an auto-run, I don't think the game needs it, nor would I use it if they added it, but I think the argument "what's the point of making big open maps if we just use auto run" kinda loses its point when 99% of the player base already goes from A to B with auto run (the run forward one) and alt tabs.

[Sunhwapark]

Add this, and auto combo or whatever the other thing is people seemed to want

[NecroprincessCleo]

Add this, and auto combo or whatever the other thing is people seemed to want

autocombo- no but make it one button still has to be hit 3 times but just condense it down to a single button

[Sunhwapark]

autocombo- no but make it one button still has to be hit 3 times but just condense it down to a single button

That was the one, couldn't remember the specific name, thank you

[Alicie]

You already have it, it's in the shop. You can skip MSQ up to any expansion of your choice.

Needs to be free. You really can not ask a new player to pony up $60 for full game + $50 on top of that just to actually get to actually play the expansion they came for and expect game to gain any popularity whatsoever.

Either MSQ hyperfixation is to be stopped, or this game will just die. Maybe you could ask a player to do whole MSQ in ARR or HW, but we're now looking at 5 expansions worth of "content" (boring mindless back and forth with a lot of filler) before they can actually start playing. Seriously how do you attract new player? "Oh hmm, well, we have this epic battle but like, please spend 500 hours reading pray return to walking sands first"?

We need to begin accepting that players come to game to play. Not read. Not watch cutscenes. Play.

[Selsix]

Needs to be free. You really can not ask a new player to pony up $60 for full game + $50 on top of that just to actually get to actually play the expansion they came for and expect game to gain any popularity whatsoever.

Either MSQ hyperfixation is to be stopped, or this game will just die. Maybe you could ask a player to do whole MSQ in ARR or HW, but we're now looking at 5 expansions worth of "content" (boring mindless back and forth with a lot of filler) before they can actually start playing. Seriously how do you attract new player? "Oh hmm, well, we have this epic battle but like, please spend 500 hours reading pray return to walking sands first"?

We need to begin accepting that players come to game to play. Not read. Not watch cutscenes. Play.

I actually agree, and I say that as someone who finds the story of this game to be the major draw. If we want to retain new players, we can't put a mountain in front of them and say "climb it". Nobody likes dredging through old content while all their friends are doing the new stuff, even if it's new to -you-. Easy fix for this however, first time buyers of the game should get an optional story skip to the current expansion. Easy and clean. Will this hurt sales of story skips? Yeah probably, but they'll make that back and more when the player who got the free skip decides to actually stick around, pay their sub, and probably buy cosmetic mog station stuff over time.

[Sorabaka]

I DO agree with it. But at the same time i understand that they will never get it off the cash shop. Because it brings money. Because ppl who make alts (and there's a LOT of them) do buy this.

The most we can hope for is if they go WoW route and make a special edition for the expansion that includes story skip and leveling potion by default, nothing else.