Gamer Retention: what does FF14 really need?

[Gasher]

Ok, I will play this game again. In the spirit of XIV I copypasta:d this from a post I made in a similar topic.

Ok here are some minor things which would go a LONG way (in no particular order):

- A REAL LFP SYSTEM (please).
- A REAL PLAYER/AREA SEARCH SYSTEM (in the style of /sea [area] [levelrange] [job] [inviteflag])
- No more teleportation to ether camps for party members who have not visited the location earlier. -> Make players work for their progress.
- Skirr up's for weapons (Let's revive the social function of creating and playing in a skill-up party).
- Draw from the overall experience of developing XI (no, not copy it).
- A sense of genuine exploration and achievement.

I am certain that some of these will give a noticeable boost in Eorzea's social life.

[Edit] On the topic of the game not yet having a real zone/world search system: I should probably add that the reason for this is most likely that squeeenix does not want anyone to be able to establish any kind of usage statistics over FFXIV. Hovever, I still hope they come up with a way to improve player searching. [/Edit]

Thx.