[DEV] Request of feedback regariding items that need fixing

[Onidemon]

Hi Everyone,

Below are some aspects of the game i still have problems with and some suggestions to go along. I would like some feedback from the dev team regarding these points.

If you agree with these below please like and comment so that we have a better chance of getting some feedback.

If you you guys have other aspects of the game that need fixing i'll edit this post and add them here.

CHAT

Fix the chat,
It's such a basic feature and yet it feels so hard and awkward to use.

User Interface

The UI has too many drop downs and menus. Consolidate and categorize things better. Use simple and beautiful windows with TABS to separate stuff not drop downs. Make UI faster, more responsive. Yes that part has improved a lot but it still feels somehow slow and awkward. unintuitive.

Fonts,
please i beg of you change the in-game fonts! i won't elaborate on this, will just give you an examples.

FFXIV in-game font
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DcR3gp5eA8...kill_equip.jpg

AION in-game font
http://www.therefinedgeek.com.au/wp-...8/Aion0005.JPG

WOW in-game font
http://www.squarefree.com/blogimages/wowQuestLog.png

Now how much easier is that on your eyes?

Again in the UIU dept, let me drag and drop things! I'm tired of doing everything through menus and drop downs. I just don't understand how this was not done in the first place. Either the engine doesn't support it or your staff got trained on windows 3.0....

Moving windows,

Would it be possible to let us move menu windows around, drag them across the screen?

Actionbars,

We need to be able to see more action bars or make them longer.

Sound/Music

I don't have anything against the music in game, it's beautiful and has that FF feel to it but we need more music and we need to have some atmospheric music like these... music that bring up emotion, create an atmosphere and immerses you completely.

It's just examples don't pay attention to the game it's from.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNVomngq-Qc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mU-Bj...eature=related

NPC

Voice acting, NPCs need voice acting please! something so small as having NPCs say a little sentence when interacting with them goes a long way to make things feel more alive.

Cut Scenes should all be voice acted(I'm only R22 so i don't know if they all are but they should and I'm talking about both CGI and in-game quest/story scenes)

Make NPCs move! make them walk around town, walk around their little area.... make some NPCs walk around the city and sell goods. Have some NPCs travel from city to city or from city to camps. Have NPCs guards and soldiers walk around town, patrolling.

Shops, could we make it that when interacting with an NPC who sells good that we get the a buy/sell window right away? Less steps, less things to click, Make it pop up as soon as you talk to the NPC and then have buying in one tab, selling in the other tab. Simple.


Real time world wide events.

Now this would be really interesting if we can have that in-game. Some scheduled and non-scheduled events like beastmen or imperials attacking cities.

Jump

hope this still in the works, the collision detection fixes did marvels but there's still quite a few areas where i have to go around a small platform i could have just jumped onto. Plus jump gives you more a feel of freedom.... yes they will be spammers and for those i say put a jump cooldown, like running in FPSs games have a cooldown.

Market Wards

I'll make this quick, replace the whole thing with a Market system a la EVE online. (AKA AH without the bidding part)

Delete retainers and just leave the option of having a personal bazaar on your character like we do now. From what I've read around the forums i think 80-90% agree that a market system will be best.

Quests

Now this has been talked about before and well i didn't see the dev comment on it at all. Quests are plain boring in FFXIV. More then in any other mmo i played out there. Not only are they boring but the reward is not worth the effort one bit. Like someone said before "there's nothing like running around town for a mere 200sp..." Quest need to give better rewards, at least when it comes to SP points. I honestly rather do quests like "kill X amount of dodos or bring me X amount of wolf pelts" then quests like go to the other end of the world, talk to one NPC and run all the way back here....

Let us gain SP from monsters killed for quests.

Quest chains

Make it so that when you finish a quest, it will unlock another quest from the same NPC or another.. make these quests take you from one place to another and help you discover the world and progress from low level areas to higher level ones.

Public quests

these are from Warhammer...(really one of the only things i liked about that game) Quests that activate when entering a specific area, any player in that area at that time can take part in the quest, regardless if they are in the same party or not.



That's all i can think of for now!

[Onidemon]

nobody?...

[ShinobiHakeem]

Quick notes:
You actually can move windows around, they just don't remember their new location. On the other hand, I don't see the font problem you're seeing, I actually find it more simple compared to the other screenshots you posted (they had lots of colorful windows with various font colors and sometimes style) I believe FFXIV is better in a way that is simple and direct.

Hint on avoiding using the menu every time you wanna do something (not the ideal solution, I believe SE should work on it, but it works for me as for now): assign keyboard shortcuts to the things you regularly use, like Journal (J), Equipment (P), check other player's char (Y)...etc. It made my life easier.

[Tsukino]

If you want to use a sans-serif font (this seems to be what you're getting at) you can chance the font to anything you want from the outside config utility.

[Onidemon]

If you want to use a sans-serif font (this seems to be what you're getting at) you can chance the font to anything you want from the outside config utility.

Really? that would change all in-game fonts?

[Alexis_Arteme]

Yes, however I experienced multiple crashes when I did so. It's in the config. Eventually, I had to go back to the basic.

[Estellios]

Higher rank quests and main story quests give substantially more SP than the lower rank ones, I think it picks up around the r30 range.

The multiple action bars thing and jump are being worked on!

[Onidemon]

Yes, however I experienced multiple crashes when I did so. It's in the config. Eventually, I had to go back to the basic.

So it doesn't really work then?

[Estellios]

I haven't heard anything about crashing until now. It might be an isolated issue. Just try it out yourself and see.

[Adol]

>Fix the chat

How? In what way?
The chat now is pretty damn simple to use man.