What do you like and dislike most in FFXIV?

[Jim_Berry]

FAVORITE:
It's an MMO, and it's Final Fantasy. Notably, I have most of the game's soundtrack (mainly the Primal Battle themes) downloaded on my phone for pleasure. I also like the cheap subscription cost ($12.99/month).

LEAST FAVORITE:
1) No dedicated support job/class. Can I have Corsair back, please?
2) The 1, 1, 2 setup for 4-man content other than with Palace of the Dead unless I undersize. As a tank, if another person only have a tank job, I'm force to go dps or healer or not run the content.

DISLIKE:
I dislike how it became so demanding on how much damage needs to be dealt due to rage timers in battles. Granted, I've never been a full-fledged dps in any MMO until I started BRD and NIN in FFXIV, but I liked it better in other games where we can kill bosses/enemies when WE can, not when the game want us to. Since I lack dps potential, it's the reason why I'm a tank now.

[Ksenia]

Best
Catgirl
Ever

Once I start to min/max the game, I realize just how sad and linear most of it really is. So I stick to superficial things like..

Best
Catgirl
Ever

Even though I almost always default to midlander girl.

[MicahZerrshia]

Likes:
Graphics and music are great.
v1+ARR storyline (HW not so much)
Retainers being able to farm standard mats is amazing
The abundance of dungeons

Dislikes:
No long term goals
No need to group or make friends
Copy and Paste content
Little creativity or innovation
Cash shop added on top of a sub game (at minimum we should get cash shop credits to use for paying a sub)
No danger
No open world or solo dungeons
Tomestones, enough said
Content outdating so incredibly fast
SE support and customer service (or lack there of)
Lack of voice acting
Sooooo many fetch quests......I'm a Warrior of Light, not an errand boy
World seems so small, zones are small and few

[Caitlyn]

I dislike:
- Grinding (which is ok, when its fun. FATE Atma farming was NOT fun!)
- RNG (FATE Drop chance is the worst idea ever! Thank you, Yokai)
- Nerfs (Yeah, lets nerf the easiest dungeons. Good job)
- Sidequests (no reward, no story, quite useless. You can be better than that)
- Lack of Creativity (all Dungeons following the same formular, new tomes for every 2nd patch, old gear become useless, ...)
- Great Ideas turned out as a disappointment (Triple Triad with unfair rules, Frontlines is empty, Diadem is dumb, Palace of the Dead is ok but could be better)
- Classes are useless, new jobs are like a modified version of existing jobs
- PS3 Limitations
- Small inventory
- Alexander Raid

I like:
- Graphics and Effects
- Music and Sounds
- Story and Atmosphere
- Races (Miqote, Au Ra, Lalafell, love them all)
- No class restrictions
- Best native gamepad support EVER!
- Menues, UI Layout and controls
- Gear design
- Raids
- Content and Patches
- Devs are listen to players (even when its took a while)
- Housing
- ... and a lot more...

I want:
- Dangerous Overworld, especially during night
- Stats which really affect your playstyle (skill speed, parry, elemantal attributes, s.o.)
- Challenging and rewarding solo content
- A Foundry for own content like quests and maps
- More options for character costumization
- NPC companions to hire for dungeons

[Blackcanary]

Like: -The graphics of the game.

-I love the Gold Saucer. Please add more arcade games. Fun house, even bring the MSQ in the GS that would be amazing.

-I like the fact that the Yoshi p and the devs are trying to improve the game with every update and that the game is changing into something else slow with every update.

-I really like the minions lol.

-I really like the HUD, I like the fact that i make it how i want it to be and customize it.

-I Grindina (sorry about spelling) and the music for it makes me feel like i'm in the hobbit.

-I love Motaya's cave and music wish there was more places like this.

Dislike: -The Job system. Just doesn't feel polished or complete in my mind I can't fully put my finger on it. Just feels like its missing something. I fill like the class system was supposed to be like a support job system but it just didn't work out.

-Hate Summoner wish they hadn't copied Warlock from World Of Warcraft. Hate the Egi's and how they look they look cheap and feel cheap. I wish they had just been more creative.

-I hate the fact that this game is like an amusement park/Theme Park. I really hate duty finder cause it takes you out of the world.

-I hate the fact that this game doesn't have a real sense of community.

-I hate how boring the world is out side the cities. Besides fates and hunts and gathering maybe a few other things i might be missing. The world out side the citys is kind of boring. There's no sense of wonder or awe or just wow that's amazing. Its not really exciting. No real sense of adventure. Wish there was more location to explore in a zone like cave's that twist and turn. Or mounts that are exciting to climb up and when you get to the top you have an amazing few to see.

-I hate the fact you never really see people moving around out side sometimes its really hard to get a party group going to do Fates. I my mind Fates was a bad idea.

-I hate that when ever there's an event Fates always have something to do with it some how.

-I really hate Fates now lol.

-I hate that i can't see people on boats or on Air ships. lol

-I Hate that we don't have a NPC buddy that we can summon to fight with us along side are chocobo's. I wish we could summon are retainers to fight with us.

-I also dislike the fact that Yoshi p and devs won't do somethings to improve and change the game because they believe that we wouldn't be able to handel it and that we would find it to hard.. P.S Have a little more faith in us gamers. Some of us love a challenge.

-I really hate the fact that there isn't a better storage system in this game to hold ur items. They really should bring a bank out in all the cities. The way it should work is you spend ur gill for a certain amount of space to hold ur items. This way we don't have to keep buying retainers. The bank could be its on zone on the server. So the out side of the building is in the city but when you walk inside the bank it takes you to a another zone and that zone is on its own server. I think that's how it would work. I'm not a game dev so its just a idea.

-I dislike the fact we don't have a motorbike as transport yet lol. I think if we had that at lest you would start seeing more people out side the cities lol.

-I dislike dungeon's having hard mode and extreme mode. I say this cause i feel like they could spend their time giving us more dungeons that have more exploration in it and more variety.

-Dungeons need more variety in them when it comes to exportation instead of it feel like like your just following a corridor/straight line to get from A-B that's just my opinion.

-I really really really dislike tomestones. I wish there was only one currency in FF14 ARR. Delete Tomestones and keep One currency Gill.

-I dislike the fact that you can only sale 20 items at a time on the market board from your retainer. If you want to sale more you need another retainer.

-I hate that we can't ride are chocobo's in the cities. The roads seem way to big. For example Ul'dah let us ride are chocobos out side on the main streets of Ul'dah just not inside the city buildings of ul'dah.

[Laerune]

Like:

- Classes, we have alot of them and we can play them all on one character.
- Music, when it comes to soundtrack, this game is the best. FFXIV is the only mmorpg where I have bought a soundtrack.
- Graphics, but there are alot of texture issues, that they realy need to sort out.
- Story is fun, probably one of the best storylines in a mmorpg (SWTOR and TESO are only one that are better)
- NPC remember the WoL, which makes the world feel alive.

Dislike:

- Game is too instanced, we should get more open-world dungeons and less stuff via the Duty Finder.
- The playable races look too similiar, the females are cute and anime schoolgirlish and the males are taller and strong, only two races look unique compared to the rest, which is a shame.
- Game is stuck in a status quo.
- PvP is a mess, the queue itself is around 40-80 minutes, which is ridiculous, when you find out that a match only takes 10-15 minutes.
- Game is suffering from memory issue, which makes it so we can not get a inventory upgrade or alot of plots of houses, which inturn makes it so people can not get a house.
- Recent added features like: Deep Dungeon, Lord of Vermillion and Diadem, became boring very fast and feels like a waste of development time.

What I want:

- Remove the PvP GC requirement and make it so PvP is more about players vs players and not players vs nodes.
- More focus on the open-world and less focus on instanced stuff.
- Unique looking races, think of beastmen type, android, zombies etc, anything but another cute female hyur + X or Y and a tall muscler male.
- Be more open with your community, just look at the EU promotion thread, aside from 1 reply at the start about something nobody was asking about, there has been no response from SE. The rest of the EU and AUS are still waiting for their events and it has been almost two whole months. Enough with the silent treatment.
- Discuss more with your players (with players, I mean all of them and not the Japanese ones only), ask the players what they want to see being added to the game and when you have ideas for new content, share them with us, so we can provide some feedback.
- Feedback, Feedback and more Feedback. The ingame polls from the BETA should return and be added every few months after a major patch. The players complained alot about stuff like ATMA RNG stuff, yet they already brought it back twice since we have complained about. Mandatory ingame polls, will makes give you feedback and inturn, SE will have information to work with. So SE, ask for those feedbacks, because we have them and are more then willling to give it you.

[Keramory]

I like overall love the graphics and the story (with minor quirks with the story). And although I wish things were a bit more like FFXI...I can say I'm glad most quests are shorter then FFXI. For example CoP 5-2 (or 5-3)...why?

What I dislike however...
The lack of an elemental wheel. We had it in 1.0 and ffxi and it was great. Sorry excuse to take it out.
The massive spam one must do as a class for weapon skills. Makes you forget auto attack is even a thing.
The lack of the sense of travel or depth in the games world.
The lack of real world dungeons and mazes.
The lack of race animations for battling.
The lack of horizontal progression with gear.
Ilvl has just become insanely silly. We're almost what..4 times our level now?
The lack of special stats in gear. This makes it so ONLY the absolute top gear is viable.
Tomes. Tomes. Tomes. Tomes. Tomes. Tomes. Tomes. Tomes. Tomes.

[Blackcanary]

OP this is a great thread.

P.S To the dev team you really should read through these post in this thread. I think it will really help you get some fresh ideas o how to improve this game. PLEASE add a gold CROWN to this thread.

[Theplatter]

I love the look of the game, as well as the 1.0 music and Heavensward music. So glad PotD brought back some of my favorite tunes from 1.0.

I despise that the game became an overbalanced, shallow WoW clone that places more emphasis on fluff content than creating fun, lasting battle content. Basically what Keramory said above me.

[zosia]

I like Housing, Minions, and glamours.



I dislike how the dev team has little to no communication with the player base. Important questions are never addressed in live letters, only silly questions no one cares about. Yoshi P had not given a good truthful answer to "what has not worked out" as it pertains to heavensward. He always dances around that question.

I dislike how the dev team implemented a4s without play testing the fight from start to finish. Some of them should literally lose their jobs over gordias. This dev team took a healthy raiding community in ARR and shattered it beyond repair with Gordias.

I dislike how the dev team invests so much of their limited resources on content like PotD, Lord of Verminion, and Diadem only to have all of those contents flop due to poor design and/or bad incentives.

I dislike how gear is worthless in this game.

I dislike how gear does not really impact your endgame gameplay, people literally get full 240 to stand around towns.

I dislike how full 240 BiS is a pointless endeavor because a ilvl 250 crafted gear set will completely outshine any 240 BiS set day one for patch 3.4.

I dislike how this dev team makes super rare items super common. (coffin lid, Thavanarian set, etc). It's like this dev team only knows 0 and 100 on the speed dial, the coffin lid went from a 1% drop to a 100% drop. How does that even make sense? Why not start like at 10, 15, or 25%? Why even nerf it at all, it's just rare furniture?

I dislike how there is no individualism in this game. Since everything is nerfed into the ground, rewards and rare items often become common place and cheap. There is very few ways to actually distinguish yourself from others. Everyone and everything feels like a giant bowl of bland vanilla paste.

I dislike how every bit of content outside of midas savage is set to the brain dead ez mode setting. I really dislike how netflix is almost mandatory for repeat clears of 90% of this game content. This game is boring af!

I dislike how there are completely unnecessary complications in this game. Why do we need five different types of glamour prisms? It takes the same mats to make any of the different grades, just standardize them FFS!

I dislike how SE is trying to bribe people with houses to stay subbed with housing demolition. Lets stop pretending that demolition makes housing wards active. People just log in once a month to preserve their housing lots.

I dislike that after three years that this game still has massive RMT issues. I dislike that rampant botting of all types is hardly punished in this game.

I dislike the clunky friends/black list UI that closes out every time you remove someone from the list.

I dislike hunts. They are no where near as cool as actual NMs. Hunts can go die in a fire.

I dislike the cash shop. I dislike the cash shop. I dislike the cash shop.

I dislike how every time there is a hotfix, the severs go down for three hours. Invest in better servers SE, Blizzard can do a hotfix in 15 mins and they only need to restart the server. Maybe use some of that cash shop money on FFXIV instead of FFXV?

I dislike the cheap reuse of monster assets and mechanics. 95% of PotD was just regurgitated environments with regurgitated monsters.

I could easily keep going on, there is so much to dislike like yokai, relics, gordias, etc. etc. etc. but why bother? The dev team is tone deaf and near incompetent when it comes to delivering new content.