IDEAS TO MAKE THE GAME BETTER

[RicaRuin]

Remember, it's 4 times the work and costs. Since they would need voiced lines in Japanese, German and French as well.

[DrWho2010]

you realize the gold saucer is the way it is because there is no gambling involved right? there are strict rules for gambling.

[Payadopa]

Also ps you don't even need voice actors any more alot of programs can create real voices just by pitch,tone and depth scales lol

Yeah, that's why every Hollywood movie uses it for dubbing for non English speaking consumers... ...oh, wait.

[RayddenPrime]

It is true that after ARR it gets better up until current expansions.

But what of new players? The game is heavily story based. I managed to read most of the narratives for MSQ and blue quests. Coming in knowing that it is very story driven.And I myself , am fairly new . And i quit so many times because it became a chore to have to read read read ..if they had voice acting to begin with , why not keep having it. why cut off on so many dialogue. sounds to me like lazy work...
The story is freaking good, but the reading and reading makes it a pain in this generation. and it sucks because the story actually make you more connected to the world. Sure many quest are tedious as well but if they make going through the Narratives tedious too , that's like doubled the amount of tediousness.
I asked so many of my friends to come play , and join in the game ...and when i told them about it and that it's story driven , story is really good but you have to read a lot...that directly became a turn off.
So to sum it short, in this generation, the lack of voice acting in MMOs can easily be a turn off, especially if its a story driven mmo.

I mean FF14 is as popular as ever ..over 18 million players sure, no body is denying that the game is great. I just feel it can be even better and easier for new comers to get in the game ; not just Final Fantasy fans but people looking for a good mmorpg to play and never really dived in a final fantasy game before.


Another point is Remastering some textures and graphics is very doable. to keep up with today's standard. it really is just some of the environments that needs remastering.

And of coarse , there are many other things that can make the game better and should be priorities if you look at it from veteran player's point of view. but I am mainly aiming at new player or noobs like me trying to hold on and keep playing the game. Sometimes all that is needed is to just make it look and feel a little bit fresh again..that why i mainly mention voice acting or voice over or whatever...and Graphical upgrades ( textures of the ground, foliage, environmental textures, add some more better weather effects,...etc ) pretty sure nowadays technology and hardware should permit it.

[DrWho2010]

the jump potions are always there if people can't be bothered to play for the story.

Remastering textures could be doable yes but is it cost efficient/worth the time to take away from the regular updates the game gets? there will 100% be longer delays in between patches to accommodate for this. i don't think most people will go for that.

[LolitaBansheeMeru]

One thing thats more of a quality of life thing is fix the tank stance so it does not disable when you level sync I forget to turn it on every time I get synced and honestly its really stupid it removes it upon level sync lol

[Enkidoh]

One thing thats more of a quality of life thing is fix the tank stance so it does not disable when you level sync I forget to turn it on every time I get synced and honestly its really stupid it removes it upon level sync lol

Level sync does that with all abilities though - it's to keep level sync relevant by not being able to 'cheat' it having access to abilities and spells that aren't normally available at that level (SE did the same thing with FFXI when level sync was introduced there too).

For instance the GLA/PLD tank stance Iron Will was originally gained at a much higher level when it was called Shield Oath (early 40s if I remember rightly) and thus at the time it was probably just easier to have level sync deactivate all buffs by default as a fail-safe every time lvl sync was activated than having the game manually check to see if that ability was available to be used at the level of that content, a time consuming and complex thing to implement, so it's little wonder they went with the easier option.

Hence I don't see them changing this I'm afraid.

[Tatiana]

Personally, I want more meaningful open world content in future expansions outside of FATE's and Hunts.

I agree that working on upgrading graphics in some capacity would be beneficial to the game going forward, even if they just added optional high resolution textures and HDR.

[ryouma17]

make crossbreeding available to everyone and not just those lucky enough to own 50 houses

[HeyMcFly]

Add better textures to characters- like elezen or the highlander & midlander

Allow face players to have access to more than one facepaint at a time

Improve the housing decor system. People shouldn't have to glitch through or bug their houses just to get a nice look when placing decor.

Increased housing items limit.

More hairstyle contests- the current hairstyles are either all short or too lackluster- Several NPC's still have hairstyles that are inaccessible so no more exclusive NPC glamours that literally look better than anything players have access to.

Release outfits that belong to female characters from past ff games and not just males. (or more than just lightning)

I'd like a little dialogue option to flirt with Thancred/Urianger/Y'shtola/Aymeric just to see the reaction lol