FINAL FANTASY XIV Suggestive Changes

[Onidemon]

Instead of posting a huge wall of text and possibly running into the issue of needing to make multiple posts, I put together a list of suggestions and concerns into one giant PDF file. This PDF attempts to shine light on most of the issues the game has been having and a lot of the issues that players are seeking to have addressed.

Take into consideration that not everyone will agree on some or many of these changes. I also didn't take the liberty of prioritizing these changes, I felt that as a player I have every right suggesting changes, but have no right nor actual say in how and when changes occur.

Keftenk's Extensive FINAL FANTASY XIV Suggested Change Log (3/08/11): http://www.notedls.com/SgstChgLog_30811.pdf
Thursday, March 8th PDF Suggestive Change Log Size: 2.65MB
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Man if anyone could send this PDF to SE i think it would do miracles for the game's future... Any Moderators or Developers around? Please take a few minutes to read this... it is an excellent summary of all the complains we have since the early days of the game and as a bonus it tells you how to fix it! .

[Sephr]

Reading through it does open your eyes to the sheer volume of things that need (and hopefully will) changing in the future, although of course some are far more important than others.

But uh, I'm going to say it. I like Roegadyn better than Galka. Sounds fancy.

EDIT: Though I will miss a good Galkan Sausage, le sigh.

[JakeRoon]

Just because its unique doesn't mean its good. But this is my opinion, and they can choose to keep the armory system and i'll just not play.
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That's the most Adult thing I 've heard anyone say about this in a long time. I just don't understand why no one else can come to that conclusion. If you don't like the game, don't play it......

If you liked FFxi's class system (etc) better....go play that instead, it's a fun game!

Because guess what folks?

[whispers] This isn't Final Fantasy 11....

[flampy]

Well thought out suggestions, I think it's great that the devs take these into consideration. Could make me switch back to FFXIV if a lot of progress is made.

[Keftenk]

As for the armory system, I like it. I don't want the nuisance of walking back to my mog house just to change classes. If I know how to cook, and I have a pot on me, why should I have to walk all the way back to a moogle and have the moogle tell me, "I now allow you to use your pot!" As if I've somehow forgotten to cook otherwise...
Personally, I think that's one of FFXIV's biggest improvements over FFXI. I don't see the advantage of making people walk more, or even how it makes more sense. Like I said - if someone knows how to use a spear, why do they have to go home to remember how to use it instead of just pulling it out? I can't even imagine how much worse crafting would be if that changed. I definitely don't want to run out to Bloodshore 3 times to do three different leves. And I don't really recall it making FFXI more enjoyable - if you want danger, there's always high level places. Walk to Mor Dhona; I saw plenty of danger there.

I agree, I love having the ability to change on the fly. I wish it was a bit faster, same goes for macro swaps. Although the armory system is far from perfect and balanced, it boggles my mind how they could think about it so much, allowing the player to jump from 1 job to the next with ease, but then get caught up with making everything else in the game require 10x the actions just to get to wherever they need to get to.

[Katabo]

Wow this is awesome! It's great to see people from the community as dedicated (as you clearly appear to be) to making the game better.

[Dragon]

Weapons don't make a class... the abilities of a class make a class... and now we have weapons which decide your profession... with any abilities you want. That makes perfect sense.

That's exactly IT though... the entire premise to FFXIV's battle system all along has been about getting rid of the class placement system. It's always been about the weapon defining the class.

P.S. First time I'll ever call something out for this, but I cannot be assed to read that .pdf file: tl;dr.

[Allcars]

BUMP, KEFTENK YOU ARE AMAZING. I read through that took about an hour holy crap you hit everything that was on my mind, some stuff has been implemented. Love Praire Flower <3

[Keftenk]

Necro bumped lol.
This reminds me to update this list..

[Drazzan]

I'd like to see this updated with all the recent changes! ^~^