We Really Need To Talk About The State And Path Of FFXIV

[Levy9]

My two biggest general complaints is that the game is over-instanced and that it lacks exploratory/world content at end game. Eureka doesn't quite count due to it being both instanced and skewed towards large groups at the expense of exploration.

I'd love if we just got a new zone during a patch cycle with it's own story, completely non-instanced and part of the game's overworld. It could offer high difficulty mobs, dailies and maybe some form of instanced group content at the end, similar to Baldesion Arsenal. Maybe just an extreme difficulty four-man dungeon with a weekly cap?

As of now this game's only world content at endgame are beast tribe quests and hunts. In each of them, you essentially fly or immediately teleport to your destination and finish the quest/kill the under tuned mobs in mere minutes. This quick content is also capped at a daily limit, giving you no other world content to do after you cap.

I thought Eureka would've been an attempt to fill this gap in FFXIV's content pattern, but they made it another instanced zone with a heavy focus on large groups and large scale encounters.

[Psytic]

Open world is bland and lacks dense vegetation. ARR looks better than any zone that has come since. Everything is just bland space with a couple trees plopped down. Look at La Nosca and the hot springs at bronze lake, etc. look at the zones since the expacs. Just bland rocks even the wall textures used to have moss growing on them you look at Yanixia its the same brown bland repeated texture. Please add some more trees and shrubs and ground cover so it at least looks as good as ARR in Shadowbringers. Look at Kugane 90% of people are standing in the street and you cant go in most of the buildings. Gyr Abania side is even worse, I get that its badlands but even Thalanan had cactus and some interesting things.

[Psytic]

PS the poster above are right. I play potd just to be able to do something and not be in a 30 minute dps queue to play the game. Deep Dungeons could use some improvements.

[Justadude]

well you are not wrong. Only thing that doesnt sit well with me is your raid section.
Dont get me wrong everything you said in there is absolutely true.
Now i dont mean to get political here but i need an analogy and it seems a perfect fit.
Heathcare isnt broken because people cant afford insurance. Healthcare is broken because hospitals think its ok to charge 90 dollars to hold your new born baby for 60 seconds.
Same situation with raids and rewards. Its not broken because raiders exist. its broken because REWARD CAPS exist.
OH My have reward caps gotten out of control. it started with highest tier tomes just before HS. now its:
Highest tier tomes
Highest tier 24 man
Highest tier normal Raid
Entire highest tier savage content.
which leaves only one endgame content not buffered by a stop wall. Eureka.
you can sit in eureka forever and ever, and you have to too because each kill is worth only a whopping 1/10000th of a level (i did the math)
but no matter what progression is steady throughout. That is literally the only redeeming quality eureka has going for it. Its not fun, its literally Final fantasy 11 on final fantasy 14's engine only without all the things that made Final fantasy 11 fun. So basically its all the things that were bad about final fantasy 11. Maybe Diadem and Eureka were paying respects to the old producer who was legendary with final fantasy 11. Guess what though. He isnt legendary. He was a failure in the end and was fired for it because he didnt respect the players. But i digress.

Bottom line it isnt the raiders that are the problem. Its the content and the very visible stoppage of progression. its the literal hand in your face that says OK player you did enough of that fun thing for the week see you next tuesday, now GFYS!
Im just venting here because i know the bosses are doing the same thing that Hiromichi Tanaka and Naoki Yoshida did. They are no longer listening to us. Its evident because Diadem and eureka have gone on for OVER a year now and we do not see any signs of regret.

[Gardthorne]

That first post is unreal. I've never seen so many bad opinions collected into one space.

[Kuroka]

lol
16? are you from the US by chance? that is no were a child. IF thats too much then idk... just say no and done.

[Theodric]

It's always concerning to see legitimate concerns downplayed when it comes to creepy players.

[WaterShield]

It's always concerning to see legitimate concerns downplayed when it comes to creepy players.

If they have legitimate concerns a GM should have been contacted... by the person it happened to. Assuming it even did happen.

[Vahlnir]

It's always concerning to see legitimate concerns downplayed when it comes to creepy players.

It's definitely a problem when and if it happens, but it has little to do with the direction of the game. That is what this topic is about. I didn't want to come across as downplaying it which is why I didn't respond to that post directly. Because I'm not nor do I want to downplay it. If it did indeed happen, my apologies to the poster. I hope the right action is taken. It's just not related to this thread at all which is why I can see why people think it may be troll bait.

[Windwalker]

Notice: Gaming experience may change during online play

Welcome to the online world, where people can freely curse and do other acts without anyone policing them. If you bring a child to such an environment, its your own fault as a parent. When it comes to online games, they simply just can't have GM's watching what every player does. Theres atleast 10 thousand players on a single server.