Hi all,

Just some of my thoughts/feedback on some of the more annoying parts of FFXIV. I've only played a week or so, but these are some of my "top x pet peeves" thus far (meant constructively). My most annoying at the top:
  1. Inventory Management; endlessly moving things from retainer, to inventory, to sale, to ... where was that ... oh, now I have to search for it ... it was in the retainer and now I have to go to a summoning point, which takes away from the task I was just trying to do ....; stopping me from doing what I want to do to move items around .... recipe for quitting; the isearch is helpful, though, it is necessary; the splitting items like the armoury is helpful, though it would almost have to be applied to all types (ingredients, reagents, food, stone, etc.) to help solve the problem
  2. At night (in game) it gets really dark; too dark; you have to turn up the contrast, brightness/contrast, etc, still, often, you can't see where you're going... literally ; just give me a "maximum darkness setting" please
  3. "Repair All"; It's not really a repair all; you have to Repair all "equipment", then Repair All for main, then Repair All for .... and after you've done repairing all with Dark Matter, you have to do the same thing, again, at the vendor for the ones you can't repair ; annoying, not fun, ruins the game; please give a "repair everything I have anywhere" button
  4. Out-levelling content; I think the "Road to 60" and other exp buffs to catch new players up-to-speed are good, though, I would say this also comes at a cost; specifically, the worst for me is not being able to access content; for example, I'm level 50+ for several jobs, like gathering, though I can't access the "above level 50" areas until I finish the Goliath "Main Scenario Quests" ... talk about endless, and by the time you're halfway through, you just want to the MSQ done, or do something else ... like play another game .... this can become a particular issue in crafting/gathering in that you can't get your materials, so essentially all jobs slow to a crawl above 50 until you finish the MSQ; I think there is a valid counter "just finish the MSQ", though that takes .... full days maybe weeks of endless monotony, just so I can start reusing my other jobs now; I'm not sure I have a suggestion for this, I'm just saying it's an emergent property of the game
  5. You have to run to a Aethernet shard to teleport while in cities .... while in a city, I want to just teleport to a destination shard (like the Aethernet teleport); frankly the Smith/Armor Guilds need a shard
  6. "Enter the {location}" defaults are set to "No"; I want to go in there, but I have to select Yes, then enter (on the keyboard) ... why annoy me with 100's of extra detracting, "move the focus from 'No' to 'Yes'" on the 1 out of 100 off chance that I don't want to go in?

Once again, all this meant as constructive, though certainly enough of the points annoy me to no end