What are the largest issues plaguing XIV currently?

[rofland]

There already is repeatable content that advances your character with the roulettes, exactly.

When people ask for M+, they're asking for an infinite treadmill and the entire game to be balanced around that infinite treadmill making gear available. This is the reason why WoW BFA is so spectacularly awful and why the new expansion looks like a dog turd on arrival.

[Lily_Skye]

Please for the love of god, don't bring the degenerate treadmill mechanics of WoW loot/M+ into this game. I quit Blizzard's pile of trash specifically because M+ poisoned every other element of the game in destroying crafting, pvp and raid rewards. I don't want to run the same dungeon a million times for the same reward with hurf durf bigger numbers.

The real problem is the absolutely rampant botting/RMT and evident misallocation of administration resources. No one should care about a streamer talking down on shitter dps more than robots breaking the market board.

see you in shadowlands!

[Its_Elodie]

- “Technical Limitations”
- Character customization needs updating
- Limited races left without being updated
- Limited housing
- Clicking a placard for hours on end to maybe get a house
- Market board and gathering bots largely left unchecked
- The mentor system
- Neglected achievement certificate updates
- Neglected GC rank updates
- Lack of updates for limited jobs
- Limited jobs (I personally feel they are just shells of their real potential and a waste of the developers limited time and effort)
- Limited dungeon releases. We used to get three, now we get one.
- Limited hairstyle releases. We used to get two or three for free at a time from the aesthetician, now we get one very infrequently, purchasable through mgp, sky crafters scrip, or as rare Eureka drops.
- Lack of long feminine hairstyles or manly short hairstyles in favor of androgynous hairstyles that can easily be equipped by both genders
- Lack of increasing the item limit for small, medium and large houses.
- General radio silence about healer and tank issues
- Mnk needs rework
- Bard lost a lot of its identity
- Healer homogenization and two button dps rotation
- Pvp was never too great but is generally left largely neglected

[Marxam]

- “Technical Limitations”
- Character customization needs updating
- Limited races left without being updated
- Limited housing
- Clicking a placard for hours on end to maybe get a house
- Market board and gathering bots largely left unchecked
- The mentor system
- Neglected achievement certificate updates
- Neglected GC rank updates
- Lack of updates for limited jobs
- Limited jobs (I personally feel they are just shells of their real potential and a waste of the developers limited time and effort)
- Limited dungeon releases. We used to get three, now we get one.
- Limited hairstyle releases. We used to get two or three for free at a time from the aesthetician, now we get one very infrequently, purchasable through mgp, sky crafters scrip, or as rare Eureka drops.
- Lack of long feminine hairstyles or manly short hairstyles in favor of androgynous hairstyles that can easily be equipped by both genders
- Lack of increasing the item limit for small, medium and large houses.
- General radio silence about healer and tank issues
- Mnk needs rework
- Bard lost a lot of its identity
- Healer homogenization and two button dps rotation
- Pvp was never too great but is generally left largely neglected

a couple more to the list. Also MNK is getting reworked in 5.4, after MNK mains were asking this since HW and technical limitations is what every game has to deal with so not XIV exclusive.

-Content stretching i.e. relic questline, big patch updates now going on 4+ months instead of 3* (I noticed this happening in SB years ago)
-Shift to glamour focus endgame has made gear more irrelevant since one lvl 1 glamour can cost as much as a full crafted set.
-Homogenization of tool kits, more specifically tanks and helaers
-Lack of depth by removing TP, unique tank/off-tank stances, etc (they kept MP even though half the jobs don't use it similar to TP)
-Shallow game play and no consequence to spamming one move anymore
-No personal accountability to playing which has led to more people entering content they are not ready for, getting carried, general lower player performance overall, i.e. PF trap farm/clear parties that can't get past phase 1 of a boss.
-Clear sellers, ERP, RMT spam and phishing getting more aggressive in shout, tell and PF

[Mirhd]

Not the game directly, but the forum. Specifically, the mods not doing their jobs and culling Titanmens' myriad accounts, and whoever else. I don't want to harp on anyone because I realise it can be a thankless job, but I'm honestly tired of this garbage month after month. It really gives the impression that they don't care when they allow well known trolls free reign here.

Before anyone says it - no, putting him on ignore does not prevent necro/troll threads from clogging up the page; parasites should be removed, not accommodated.