What do you like and dislike most in FFXIV?

[Voltyblast]

Before replying I wanted to see if my most disliked thing was already said (I don't want to get banned for "negative feedback", since apparently criticism is considered negative).

But to me the most disliked thing is the community: I joined ffxiv hearing that it was great, enjoyable and friendly and not even a year later in (Talking about the period between 2.0 and 2.1) I met some of the worst people in all my entire life, in different FCs, that made me fall on depression and essentially scarred me to never join a FC or a static ever again. I tried later again during 2.4-5 but luckily enough I was ready for it so it was painless. I still remain FCless to this day (I occasionally joined some friend's fc for a very short time: as a house owner I don't really need a FC anyway)

And no before someone say that "I'm the problem", I played dozens of online games (not just mmorpgs) before this and I never EVER had issues. Heck I found many good people even in games such as LoL and Dota 2 and I still find some good people in WoW too - you know, some of the worst communities ever. I was also never banned or reported from players for misbehaviour or anything really: I generally am a very tame person that surprisingly can get along with others and I genuinely want to work with others for achieving the goals (infact I love games like TF2 and Overwatch because of it, since that team is essential...but that means I play the usual Medic/Mercy and Heavy/Reinhardt/Put another tank. What won't someone do for the team!).
I just can't see why I can't fit here.

Someone said that it's because my server (balmung) is the issue but frankly I don't know, and I don't care: I find that a very weak excuse in general.

On the other hand, I do like the game so that's why I still play it: even if flawed I do like the relatively simplicity of the game (relatively, since a class has like 20-30 skills to remember!). Just wished for more midcore content but I have no real main complains: I can see potential but as it is the game feels very boring.

[Zaythe]

I think this is a really good thread to have and I hope the devs check it out!

LIKES:
*Lots to do! (for me anyway)
*Lots of content and consistent patching
*Graphics
*Fun factor
*Quirky little details they add from simple things such as new haircuts. As silly as it is it just shows how they don't forget about the little things.
*Lots of dungeons and boss fights.
*MONK!
*Music
*So much to craft and gather. Its so in depth and I think they really did a great job on making crafting so interesting and original
*Awesome looking gear.


DISLIKES
*Cut scenes. Way too many in the msq. Last night I got to the point of rolling my eyes every damn time the screen went black to load a CS which, was every time. I gave up for the night as to I was not enjoying it. I want to play, not watch!
*No proper banking system. The retainer system is so time consuming and clunky. Click Summoning Bell (camera pans to bell, click which retainer, retainer rocks up, retainer says something, click what u want to do, exit retainer, retainer once again says something, camera pans back to character, rinse repeat.
*Alphinaud. Yep, I said it.
*Zones. I dislike so much how they are seperate from each other. It really does take away that 'world' feel for me.
*The storyline. I will say its not bad but, far from great. Sometimes I just moan at how boring, tedious or 'little-kiddy' it can be. I find myself getting impatient a lot of the time and I shouldn't feel like that. I should be enthralled and enjoying it. That said, some awesome things have happened!
*Kawaii Kitty Clubs
*Hyurs in bikini's
*1-2-3 combo classes. I'd like a bit more diversity than 1-2-3, apply token dot now 4-5-6. Yes I play Monk which is very much like this however, MOST melee jobs are like this and we need diversity and something fresh!
*FATE grinding
*The character cap on forum posts. Why this wasn't fixed I have no idea.
*PvP queues

Thanks for starting an interesting and imformative thread. Kudos!

[Riardon]

I can't choose only one thing so I will try not make it long.
What I like:
Game is based on Dungeons system and I love Dungeons. I like the sync system as well.
The story. Perhaps the only MMORPG with actual plot, good cutscenes and voice acting.
Community. One of the friendliest and non toxic EVER period.
Technically a well done and optimized game. It runs very well in all systems and scales performance nicely. Also one of MMORPGs with the fewest bugs and glitches.
Job system. You can have all jobs with one character. No more scratching head to find names for alts and lose time switching between them.

What I don't like
Poor end game content. Not much things to do once you get the gear and you get the gear pretty fast. And I play few hours per day. Not many things to engage the long term players.
Poor character customization. (I do not mean the glamours but the character creation screen. very poor and too few options. Everyone looks like each other.)
Crafting requires too much money for no actual rewards. I mean it's only for glamours and furniture. Once you get your house and decorate it crafting is useless. No good weapon and gear from crafting that can replace long term the tomestone ones. Crafting is not necessary in game it's more like a time/gil sink.
Class system utterly useless. We should have Jobs only from the beginning.
Maps feel kinda small. Not too small but smaller in comparison to other MMORPGs.
No open world content.
PvP is not well done and it's rather poor in this game.

The things I like outweight the things I dislike. The game has a lot of potential and many things to change and improve for sure. I have great expectations from FFXIV and I do hope to see this game grow much more.

[loreleidiangelo]

I dislike the tank and healer "DPS meta" that has permeated every aspect of this game. Tank cooldowns and healing potencies are scaled so high and on such short, spammable recast timers (at least compared to WoW, where I am vastly preferring healing over healing in XIV currently) that pretty much every encounter outside of Savage raiding is trivialized and permanently backseats those roles into "half a DPS" niches. Heck, even Savage is mostly covered by a "MT" and a "main healer", so it's not just an issue at the casual level, either. Some of my best experiences in FFXIV are when groups are bad in Weeping City - I have to really think and plan carefully about my CD and MP usage, and pretty much never have time to DPS in the later parts of the boss fights because I'm too busy saving lives.

Sad that it takes groups being "beyond the pale" levels of bad for me to get to do that.

I do like most of the other aspects of this game, though. I like the accessibility, I like the oodles of side content that it offers, and I love the cinematics, music, and storytelling. Crafting and gathering is it's own fully-fleshed progression model, and immensely satisfying for it (to me, at least). The community is mostly chill, fun-loving, and easy to be around, with some exceptions that always stand out more than most sadly. I love the lore, and I'm always super-excited to jump into the story content on day 1 of a new patch. I did the sightseeing log for lore, not for the minion haha.

Seriously SE, just fix your boring uninspired "STAB IT HARDER!" encounter design and we'll be golden. Maybe it wouldn't suck so bad if healers actually had an interesting "DPS rotation", but since they don't, please let me use more buttons than just 5 or 6.

[Fevelle]

Some of my best experiences in FFXIV are when groups are bad in Weeping City - I have to really think and plan carefully about my CD and MP usage, and pretty much never have time to DPS in the later parts of the boss fights because I'm too busy saving lives.

That's why I run these contents several times on day one, to get that feelin ;-;

[Mishari]

Dislike:
- the gear progression system (too vertical)
- the boring stats
- cash shop

and this sooo much:

...And don't even get me started on max level. We can just stroll through any place in all of Eorzea all by ourselves without having ANYTHING to worry about
That is stupid.

Like:
- art style
- music
- battle system

[Kewitt]

I like having something to do with my Hubby.
I Dislike having something to do with my Hubby....
I could have gotten a PHD making lots of money having a better life.... Had I not fallen into the world of MMOs... On the other hand. My life is pretty good at this point.

I like my friends.
I Dislike the Cash shop.
As an on going sub. I should get 1 Cash shop credit every month that I suib.. And turn around and get items with it. If I want everything I play for 10 Years or pay extra.

I like the memories I am making.

[WinterLuna]

Thanks very much for taking your time to reply all Again though, please stop including the community in your responses! The community isn't something the devs can control so including this isn't helping in any way and only serves to cause arguments or debate, which isn't the point of this thread. I am simply asking about FFXIV as a game, meaning the content that the devs created, and not the people who play the game. Thanks!

[WinterLuna]

I'll add my own likes and dislikes now.

Likes:

- The wide range of glamours, minions and mounts
- The stunning graphics
- The storyline
- The raids, especially Coil
- Aquapolis
- The crafting and gathering system

Dislikes:

- Recycled gear progression (tome grinds)
- Palace of the Dead
- Lord of Verminion, I feel like this was rushed
- Some classes are difficult to play on controller
- Lack of customisation, only having a few faces to choose from etc, hairstyles can be very similar and lack variety
- Cutscenes which include our character and the lack of character immersion. I hate when my character takes two steps back, turns around and walks away. It's not fluid.
- Lack of danger in the open world

[Knahli]

I love the glamour system and the ease of it's use.
I dislike how restrictive it is based on class and on how much potential is locked away because, oh... too bad, DRG only.

I thoroughly enjoy the story and a great majority of the NPCs involved in it.
I am becoming exceptionally tired of the WoL always winning and coming out on top - especially considering we beat the new antagonist three times over already.

I love the model design in this game. The races are very beautifully designed and it really suits my personal tastes.
I find it really sad that the character creation is restricted in so many ways that it really needn't be, Auri horns locked to face model for instance - even if I got super lucky with both of mine.

I love the dungeons in this game and find the maps to be all kind of beautiful to behold.
I dislike how determined Yoshi is to keep them manageable on a basic level. Story quest dungeons, sure, but venture forth and make some of them raid-tier kinds of punishing.

I really appreciate how much attention they are willing to give to the smaller details that make this game feel more alive, such as emotes and /gpose despite how unpopular such content may be to other people.
I dislike how we can't bring some of those emotes out into the real world, such as lying down on benches, because the potential of a few people with a bad sense of humour taking weird screenshots is enough to spoil it for the rest of us.