"If you ignore them long enough.."

[Linadae]

Let's not forget their promise of personal housing that would be both separate and much cheaper than free company housing.

And no...apartment buildings and personal rooms do not and will never count in my book unless the physical size can be expanded.

So Yoshida, Mr. Housing, I'm still waiting for you to keep your promise...

[LadyVal]

One thing I'm surprised they still haven't touched on was the wandering primals and the ability for FCs to "hold" a primal that they killed in the open world for buffs or for some special kind of primal LB inside instances for FC members.

[Eul]

Bunny ears for males...

[Belhi]

OP, you realise they have actually commented on almost everything you listed. They know all this stuff already and its all frequently asked.

1. Storage and inventory is linked to server issues and they need to figure out a fix on that before they can expand inventory further. Don't ask me about retainers cause I'm only saying what they said.

2. Yoshi P mains a BLM not a DRG. Im not sure why they decided to have such a limited set but my guess is that with the other armour sets (which should be about 4 sets total) they are adding plus the new glamours it might simply be an issue of available resources to develop sets. Making 12 completely unique sets takes a lot more time. As for the DRK black flame they found its animation looked off when mounted and such. It was a design call and frankly without having seen how it looked its hard to claim good or bad on that.

3. I agree on Choco Medica. As for the rest I think they mentioned entering old duties with a Chocobo but none of the rest. As I said before what they did say is they are working on a system where you train up a squad of GC soldiers to do content with you. Its probably still in development. Systems like that are the type of thing that get added with expansions.

4. Cant comment on PvP much but at least they are paying it some attention.

5. I agree with the parry issue. DRKs are fine. Why do you feel they are lacking? Do WARs offer more raid utility apart from perhaps the slashing debuff? PLD's do but that is PLD's thing. Egi glamours are in production but low priority. Gravity is fine. Isn't it the same radius as most AoEs?

6. Elemental Materia are a legacy of 1.0. Personally I'd prefer if they just phased them out.

7. They said that they would increase GC ranks when it actually had some solid gameplay value behind it rather than just be turning in more GC seals. Personally I expect we will see something whenever we see the 'train your own unit' thing they talked about.

8. It would be nice. Currently I think my FC just shares linkshells with other FCs.

9. They are doing something instanced in 3.3. It will basically an apartment system that doesn't require GC membership and allows things like small gardening plots.

In general though the answer to most of your points is likely one of 3 thing:

1. Didn't work well in game
2. In production but low priority or requires long development time
3. Don't have the resources available to develop and implement

Again, they have commented on pretty much most of your points already, in some cases quite recently.

[tjw]

A LOT of your issues would be improved...if the budget even accounted for it. The XIV team is struggling enough; I'm hoping that the budgetting for this year will see increased funds to XIV.

Additional retainer
Improvements in armoire
Glamour book

All I can agree on. Although it does help to do some spring-cleaning...

Class identity - really an opportunity here with the Primal gears but you had to make classes share a Primal. Good job. I don't care if you main a DRG Yoshi.

Didn't we just have an ENTIRE patch cycle with job-specific gear? How much identity do you want?

DRK's black flame - the originally intended one.

Agreed. The red bleeds my eyes.

Fix Choco medica
The ability to enter dungeons with NPCs
The ability to have companions other than our chocobos
The possibility of using retainers as companions inside and/or outside of dungeons

I would still love to see that Gambit system they teased for us during beta. Otherwise, I say no to NPC in dungeons by the fact that this is a MMO, not a single player RPG.

Castle siege or something similar

It seems they're making new ideas for PvP everytime there's an update, so there's still hope on defence style PvP.

Remove GC restrictions to even the playing field

Yes please. Although they have removed them for the Feast at least.

Think twice about removing PvP Ranks

Disagreed. Some form of reward and ranking is good to inspire people to do better or even to participate in the content.

Fixing parry

Yes please.

DRK's synergy - raid utility and our OWN toolkit

Don't DRKs bring some utility already? Over PLDs in any case.

Summoner's egi update

Don't start on that here, please...

AST's Gravity skill - increase the radius of this spell.

Why? Issues with gravity aren't it's radius, it's the lack of a 'gravity' effect like slow or heavy, and the lvl 52 restriction on it.

Elemental materias - huh?!

They're not entirely useless. They have a purpose for spiritbonding, since they're cheap. You certainly don't want to be melding expensive materia just to get faster spiritbond.

New GC Ranks - was it 2 years already?

Why? There's no need for it, save for hoarding even more seals that you should be using anyway.

A reminder of the whole point of GC system again - especially in PVP.

Why have any type of faction system? Why have Scions and Ascians? Why have different roles in battle?

FC Alliance

Yes please.

Promise of personal housing that would be both separate and much cheaper than free company housing

1. Let's be realistic. Cheap housing will be limited in scope and size. Separate housing will be expensive, especially if you think you can have the same standards as FC housing.
2. Isn't there word of apartment style rooms? I would say that counts as 'separate' and 'cheaper' housing, especially since IRL, apartment units ARE housing.

A way to relive / redo quests - Class quests, MSQ etc

Make a new character for that, then...?

Uncap debuff slots taken by bosses / enemies

PS3 limitations.

Lord of Verminion more easily accessible because nobody plays that

Yes please.

But now since spiritbonding is practically useless, and they are actively making it easier to get materia in other ways, I agree it should just be removed at this point. So hopefully they do that.

With the new tomestone gear being able to be melded, I'm expecting spiritbond parties to pick up, so there's that, I suppose.

[LadyVal]

2. As for the DRK black flame they found its animation looked off when mounted and such. It was a design call and frankly without having seen how it looked its hard to claim good or bad on that.

6. Elemental Materia are a legacy of 1.0. Personally I'd prefer if they just phased them out.

I think part of why that effect was changed was because it did hurt some people's eyes. I remember before they changed it, for me, it was just weirdly disorienting to look at and kept distracting me because I always thought there was something moving when it was just the DRK's animation. If I am remembering the same skill's animation, it was like a big orb of the "heat wave" weather in the desert, but red, and concentrated around the DRK. It was like having an orb of red drunk vision around the tank. lol. (Though this is assuming I am thinking of the right move.)

I think everyone realizes elemental materia are useless, and I think they kept it around as an RNG of sorts, like sometimes your spiritbonding just gave you junk. My guess is they did it to keep the market from being flooded with good materia, and it losing its value. But now since spiritbonding is practically useless, and they are actively making it easier to get materia in other ways, I agree it should just be removed at this point. So hopefully they do that.

[Mizukaru]

You forgot to add the fact that they said they would add add-on support since 2.1 almost every single patch till this one. 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 3.0 3.1 - still no add on support 2 years later.

[Khalithar]

I'd enjoy more GC ranks if we could use the rank as a title. I'd love to use that High Commander, Grand Marshal, and Champion ranks that haven't been implemented yet as a display title.

[Belhi]

I'd enjoy more GC ranks if we could use the rank as a title. I'd love to use that High Commander, Grand Marshal, and Champion ranks that haven't been implemented yet as a display title.

My guess is we will see the Grand Companies and those ranks come into play in the inevitable war against Garlemald. Same with the 'train your own unit' stuff. I think 4.0 is a highly likely candidate.

[mirta000]

I would also like to know where the following concepts are:

-The ability to enter dungeons with NPCs
-The ability to have companions other than our chocobos
-The possibility of using retainers as companions inside and/or outside of dungeons

Having NPC partners was mentioned by the devs as a possibility some time ago, but it has gotten little to no coverage since.

those introduced would directly signal the death of the game. NPC companions in MMOs (especially for instances) only get added when there's not enough population anymore.