Things SE Unnecessarily Did [List]

[DamianFatale]

This is not a hate list. I love Square Enix games, and have no plans to stop being a customer.

However, lately it does concern me that the team behind XIV has taken a number of unnecessary steps back. Here are my biggest issues.

-Ongoing issues-
1. Removing need from raids.
2. Making it so that we can’t see all our items on one inventory page.
3. We have to save up all those crystals in order to dye our relic gear, but we can’t upgrade it further for Pathos?
4. Run takes foreverrrrr. Why did they change it from 30 to 60 seconds? At least make it 30 seconds outside of duty.

There were a number of things that get changed, and since rolled back on. I feel like that’s a pattern with Stormblood lately.

[AppleJinx]

Censoring feast chat.

[Skivvy]

Adds a currency tab, but still pumps out new currencies that are not included here (raid items, EX tokens, etc).

[Freyt]

Reducing exp gained on side content.

[DamianFatale]

Censoring feast chat.

This is a good one.

[Airget]

Adds a currency tab, but still pumps out new currencies that are not included here (raid items, EX tokens, etc).

To counter this, there needs to be a limit as to how much currency is kept on the tab otherwise they won't have the data to keep the information in check.

But even then, if we look at the currency in question that's not in the currency tab, it's mostly currency you should be using as soon as you have the required amount and doesn't serve any other purpose than glamour after it's reached it's necessary use.

With Primal Tokens, it's similar, you save up to get the mount, to get the weapons, but past that you don't need that currency anymore, the only issue with currency bloat in the respect of currency used to get gear is that players are to stubborn to toss a currency piece from first tier Alexander because it's raid currency. When in reality, if you have no plan to get gear from Alexander, you should just toss it rather than let it eat up inventory space.

[Magic-Mal]

1. Y'shtola

[Kerwin]

Auto-teleporting people into a boss fight during lighthouse raid when the raid was early pulled by a griefer.

[Kayiko]

Not that I run it anymore but...

Making main story quest dungeons have unskippable cut scenes.

[Skivvy]

Auto-teleporting people into a boss fight during lighthouse raid when the raid was early pulled by a griefer.

This one I actually prefer :X Maybe I've just been lucky, but I've only been in one raid where we all backed out due to someone pulling early and trying to wipe the ones who were already there. I've definitely been part of far more instances where someone will suddenly have to go AFK right before the boss, afk just outside the arena, and then come back just moments after it seals off.