Insanely flawed features that still aren't improved.

[Titor]

THE GLAMOUR ON THIS GAME IS SO DUMB.
Now with my caps-raeg out of the question
/why/ are there different levels of each glamour prism? I could see a "leather working" Glamour prism or an "alchemy" glamour prism. But what is with the grades other than to be an inconvenience for both crafter and consumer? The different grades all require the same mats, are learned by the crafter at the same level, however some of these grades are 'undesirable' due to a lack of gear in that category.

Let us look at the Alc grade 2 glamour prism. This is the lowest selling glamour prism on my server, around 500g for it. Grade 4 and grade 5 are usually 4k-6k. For a prism with the same mats made at the same level crafter.

It is extremely annoying to have to look at what you want to glamour to, figure out the prisms, run to the market board, get potentially 13 different glamour prisms, and then glamour your gear.

Really, it would be SO MUCH BETTER if the tiers on the glamour prisms were removed and it was just sorted by gear type. Gah.

[Kiara]

5. Party / Chat System - Where to even begin with this? I'll keep it short - still no private messaging inside dungeons or cross-server, no parties cross-server and an absolutely non-existent raid system.

All I can say, I hope the expansion changes directions for this game -big time-. It's getting stale, inconvenient and not enjoyable anymore. I want to like the game again, it has so much potential but only if they decide to listen.

I agree with most of your points, especially Inventory and the Party System and Chat System.

I know SE has responded already about why there's No /Tells Chat in Dungeons:

* They claim it's because they're afraid of "harassment" of players sending /tells to each other.

That has to be the WORST Fake Excuse I've ever read. There was NEVER any rampant "harassment" issues in 1.0 in Dungeons. WTH?!

Of the countless thousands of runs from Level 1 to 50 on all Jobs, countless Aurum Vale / Dzemael "5 Chest 17 Min Speed Runs" (when they were THE way to get the best gear in the game back then), to Ifrit Extreme 1.0 and Van Darnus EX and regular dungeons, browsing the forums in 1.0, there was NEVER some crazy issue with "I got /tell in a dungeon and I'm being harassed!" Never.

Sorry, this is Yoshi P and the Dev Team's lame excuse to hide the fact that their Instanced Dungeon Servers AREN'T coded / set up properly to handle how to relay /Tells to players across different Servers.

With 3.0, I seriously hope they look into redesigning their Server Structures so that they can:

* Allow /Tells in Instanced Dungeons. This opens up communication and friends, FC / LS Mates can contact you if you were stuck in a Dungeon.

* Allow Cross Server Friends Lists and Cross Server Parties (you create), to open up the Community! So we can get more opportunities to have fun with players across multiple servers.

How is this a bad thing? It'll help bring so much more life / energy to the game.

[OranKells]

a lot of these things are not flaws so much as conscious design decisions the devs made. Most of these also sound like "you" problems with conflated expectations from other games. Why aren't you off playing those games and be happier?

[Edli]

1. Inventory System - The game highly encourages you to level all classes on one character, but yet we're still stuck with the same inventory storage we have had since day one. I know they released additional retainer services and it has been discussed, but why are we paying a price when other MMO's (even F2P MMO's) give more storage for free?

I'm curious, which ones are these games that give more storage? On these other MMOs you do get more inventory space as you level up but you forget the part where you start with a small bag with 8 slots.

On FFXIV you start with an inventory with 100 slots and 300 slots on armory chest. After a bit you get two retainers which adds 350 more slots. That makes it 750 in total. Now tell me, which game out there comes even close to that?

Forgot about armoire on inn btw and the part where you get all this pretty quick as a new character without any cost really. On other MMOs managing your inventory was such a pain and I never understood why limit it so much anyway. Is not fun.

[Ferocious]

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Guild Wars 2 (F2P) - It has a separate storage tab for crafting mats where you can store almost infinite amount of crafting mats. Besides that, you get tons of additional storage (don't know exact number, haven't played in a while).
WoW also caught up with the times and introduced a similar system for crafting mats. Wildstar has it too, it has become a norm to support that feature.
Then we have MMO's that give an average of 300 slots per character once you purchase all bags and bank tabs. That's just for one class and they have costume slots too. Here in FFXIV, we're talking 8 classes all crammed into one character which share 750 slots and no separate crafting mats storage. When you consider that, it's the weakest storage I have seen in any MMO.

[Welsper59]

That has to be the WORST Fake Excuse I've ever read. There was NEVER any rampant "harassment" issues in 1.0 in Dungeons. WTH?!

Wait... are you implying your peers would never harass someone? If so, you might wanna look around you a bit more.

Not defending the decision to remove the function, but it really sounds like you're implying that players would "never" do such a thing as send /tell to harass another player. I know at least 4 players from LS's that I belong to that love to start drama whenever they can when someone doesn't do something or play in the way they think is "best".

[Edli]

Wait... are you implying your peers would never harass someone? If so, you might wanna look around you a bit more.

Not defending the decision to remove the function, but it really sounds like you're implying that players would "never" do such a thing as send /tell to harass another player..

Harassment can happen everywhere, not only on dungeons.

[Alipoprocks]

Don't put words in my mouth, m'kay? So I'll rephrase what I said. Always get exact amounts of X material to craft Y number of stuff.

That would be realistic if we could buy the exact number of items we need. But that is not realistic in this game. 4 listings of the item I need, each a stack of 99. I only need 12.

Also, I craft on all the jobs all the time. I regularly clean out cheap garbage. My inventory is full. I have two retainers that stricly hold crafting materials only. Third one holds dies, equipment that cannot be traded in yet and items I am too low level to desynth. Glamour, dyes, fishing bait, etc.

I am very active with this game. Please give us more space to fully enjoy it.

[Xystic]

Some of these selfish requests just blow my mind....

[AdamFyi]

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The thing is, you can gather the materials yourself which was what I was implying. Though, with you mentioning that you're up to a third retainer, I'm now kinda curious about the stuff your retainers are actually keeping with them. I know most MMOs barely give you around 100 slots at best, let alone 450 slots which is the amount of your inventory added with two retainers. I'm just generally surprised that a lot of people still can't manage the huge amount of inventory space that's given for free.