So... How about a Golden Saucer?

[HappyHimitsu]

I have to agree. This is an EXCELLENT idea, on multiple platforms. Good for economy, good for curing boredom, good for making crafting and more mundane tasks a little more exciting, good way to pull people to less populated areas, and just good for fun! I can see that it isn't a priority at this exact moment, and SE needs to pull their cards right; However this could be the kind of addition that could really set this mmo where it is supposed to be, which is back to the righteous and awesome world of Final Fantasy Fun!
Golden saucer or reasonable facimile would be great.
Traveling Carnival Caravan FTW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Wynn]

They could use the PGL guild in Ul'dah. It is already a gambler's hall.

[Mudd]

Sounds great and I'd love to see something like this come along at some point, but not in Ishgard.
Ishgard to me always came off as if it will be a mix of Jeuno and San d'Oria maybe. Not the place for a light hearted Casino/amusement park; but possibly an all business one ;v

[NefarioCall]

I endorse this thread.

[PEANUT]

Well, to be fair, each city/state should have its own minigames.
Uldah = Casino type games
Gridania = Archery Minigame (Sort of like the gathering minigames but with wind speed and direction in effect) Frog Capture (Catch as many frogs as you can before time runs out.)
Limsa Lominsa = Duals (First person dualing with Pirates, Winner take all,etc.)

I really like this idea, it gives each city-state much more differientation.

Either that or someplace really cool, like the Gold Saucer where we can go and do a thousand different fun things, to earn costumes, cool items to help in battle, pets?

[Kallera]

Gridania= band minigame, you can rent out and play instruments similar to those LoTR videos.
Limsa Lominsa= surely something involving the bars? or stirring up sentiment like the FFXII "Basch Lives!" Minigame.

[Cursive]

They should install a giant Golden Saucer area in Gridania so people know Gridania actually exists.

that is crazy talk...i don't want to get within 1000 yalms of grid. ever.

[SniperRifle]

I think that it would be cool if they put a computer in the middle of Ul'dah and then if we wanted, we could go on that computer and play any video game in the UNIVERSE!!! Including FF14! So we could play FF14 while we were playing FF14. It's be really cool and I think this game really needs it. If we ever got bored we could play WoW too (the best game ever"

also, they should add a jump buitton

[SnowTiger]

It wouldn't fit in the MRD guild lol... Think BIG... Like, this place should be the size of a small city. The old golden saucer was more or less it's own city, so something like that would be cool. Maybe have an airship route to it from Ishgard or something. I mean, I guess you don't really want it to be so big that it takes over as the highlight of the game or anything, but I really don't want it pushed under the rug like those game tables in Jeuno were in FFXI.

And to the guy who said their shouldn't be PvP choco racing, I don't think you got exactly what I was thinking. It wouldn't be like a fully interactive chocobo race, it'd be similar to how it was in FFXI, except instead of racing against AI sponsored choco's, you'd race against other players choco's... It'd still be AI jockey's doing the actual racing though, you'd pretty much just set up your various stuff before the race like with the item or harness that you give it, and most of the player side work would come from raising the choco to be a good racer.

Anyway... I knew I wasn't alone on this idea, but I'm surprised by how positive the support is lol... Hopefully someone over at SE starts pestering the team to think about something like this in the future. :X

[Soralis]

yes like ffxiv own personal diznilend but much better i must say i absolutely LOVE this idea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!