What’s your FFXIV Hot Take?

[VeyaAkemi]

It should be designed in a way that shows someone put effort into it.

What I was trying to get to is that this is a nightmare to police, you need to define what "decorated" means, you need to figure out a way check every last house, if it is an item placement threshold people would just circumvent it by placing stuff haphazardly...

It's not that the idea is insane, it is, but this is a hot takes thread, it's that the problems aren't just the premise, everything about this is a nightmare.

[Clerith]

everything about this is a nightmare.

Yes, this is something Square can't fix. The change has to come from the players themselves...
from the willingness to put in a little effort, to pester their friends about it if they're too lazy, to report players that sell houses online,
to landscape their gardens and beautify their house walls to make the neighborhood more attractive and win over new neighbors.
And I'm pretty sure this is once again a problem of Western mentality — and not as severe on the Japanese servers.

With that said, even in our fc not everyone is motivated in that regard.
And I often took the time to help out. The FC provided me with funds so that I could buy and craft furnishings, and I had the motivation to try things out and help.
Others did it themselves, or started helping me, or landscaped the garden and bought new house walls; some also obtained designs from other players.
Even if some houses aren't used often, it will be appreciated by players who enjoy going on housing tours.

For me, it's always fun to visit other players' homes, to get new ideas and admire their creations.
Many simple designs also hold their own charm or witty secrets.
But time and again you come across areas where most houses are simply taken and untouched.
Nobody comes by. Nobody invites anyone in. Nobody would spend time in the garden.
It's a real shame. It's unfair to those who want a nice house.
And it's unfair to those who do have a house but have to look out onto a dreary, boring neighborhood.

[Necrosaro123]

From Heavensward to Endwalker, the game is impressively good.
Dawntrail is a trash truck on fire that rolled over from a cliff. I can't believe how poorly written this story is. Wuk Lamat is the worst character ever written in all FF14.
Dawntrail made me stop playing FF14 in 2024 and now i'm just rushing the MSQ to get ready for the next expansion (I hope is worth it).

[LeCorbeaux]

- Hoary Boulder is the best Scion.
- Hilda should be a Scion.
- Male Viera and female Hrothgar were a mistake and need to be deleted.

[Mars_Feroshia]

I did play games where job discrimination was real, or certain specs if the game had them. Also played games where classes and balance overall were in the gutter, and everything became a face roll with skipping multiple mechanics, and dungeons/ end content became a joke.

Hard pass from me.

I played FFXI from 2006-2023 and we had real job discrimination, not just for a a month or two or inbetween patches but for years of certain jobs never perma declined for merit parties, never prio for shared loot (eg. a pup wouldnt get a MNK piece before the MNK) Always underperforming in certain content because the jobs base kit etc etc.

Point being job discrimination has never existed in this game and the type of exclusion everyone is imagining is far off from what real exclusion actually is.

Real exclusion means you don't get to even exist in casual content on the job and again this game is a social sim.
If a player is unable to find a group of people to play with thats kind of a them problem. An earlier reply made a good point that probably the huge majority of people are just going to play what they want even if it's bad, and friends wont care either. If you're good players you will find a way to make most if not all comps work in some form.

I understand what you're saying though, I just think this game needs job imbalance, some jobs do need to actually suck if you're not investing time to get better at them, some jobs should just be bad in certain content, but good in other types of content and you have some really good players that are 99th in everything because that's their job, they identify with it, they roll with it.

But to be fair that requires these people to actually give us different types of content that isnt all just the same kind of thing.

[DiaDeem]

Here's another one:

People who "want" classic servers would beat all the content in a week, then proceed to leave forever and go back to complaining about the Live server. The classic servers would be packed for that one week, then no one would ever log back in and they'd become emptier than Dynamis.

[KiraRavens]

Since a hell lot of players keep playing the game for the story and characters, involving the NPCs for side content would add a LOT of fun and value (and replayability) to it.

And I don't just mean have one of them show up for a minute or two during the cutscenes, I mean let us take one of them with us companion style (our choice who) at all times, show them running next to us like in dungeons, have them contribute to conversations, and let them comment on things that happen.

[DRKoftheAzure]

Y'shtola is the most overrated character in all of Final Fantasy XIV and Final Fantasy as a whole, and she should have died back in Stormblood launch...

[RedLolly]

My hell fire take is Dawntrail as current content with how gearing, combat and job design, QoL improvements, and available new side content was still a vastly superior experience than Heavensward was during its heyday by miles.


My less explosive take is that so many more raids should be MSQ required. Alexander, Ivalice, Eden, Pandemonium, and Myths of the Realm should all be part of the MSQ with how much consequential information is in them. Now that cross region matching is coming, I think any remaining hold up is going to go since they'll be easier to get into than ever.

[DRKoftheAzure]

Developers continue to design high end raids like everyone is playing Physical Ranged DPS when most non-Physical Ranged DPS jobs aren't even designed LIKE a Physical Ranged DPS.