What are the largest issues plaguing XIV currently?

[NzomiKujo]

But out of all the dungeons you have ran, how many times have you encountered this issue? It's not very likely because this is not the norm, but the bad experiences stick with us more.

That's my point.

Most of the time, like 3 from 5 runs. We just don't notice it because the other dps/healer is picking up their slack. Or you don't notice the lack of heals or tank cooldowns because youre a dps. If we would have a parser(because without it you can't see said person spamming only 1 button /sarcasm), we could probably kick half the people in 8-24 man stuff, but that would be toxic.

[Amnmaat]

Replayability at endgame

The game just needs end game that recycles itself. Roulettes are essentially over when you cap all your jobs, and then you cap weekly tomes in 2 days.

[Stormfur]

- The consistent and flagrant botting, cheating, win-trading and exploitation that goes on in ranked anything save for POTD/HOH. We the players should not have to police a game we're paying for.

- Not even so much as a drop of development feedback to an absolutely parched and withering PVP community that is full of people with solid ideas living in an echo chamber. Freaking Verminion gets more attention than any suggestion there does.

- A lack of things to work towards, instead of work on. Either the achievements are super easy to obtain, or downright insane. There is no middle ground.

[KadaRemnant]

I noticed there's a couple threads floating around rn about how the game needs some large changes, but I think it best the wider community be asked this:

- What do you think is the biggest issue with XIV at current? Do you think that if enough light was brought to said issue (via the subreddits or here on) it will be addressed? Just wondering what this subs biggest gripes are.

Rmt bots mostly but also people who can't be respectful toward others.

[Grimr]

imho First and foremost storage. There is simply not enough of it to go around( if se would stop putting lvl 35 items for crafting lvl 80 it would cut down on the clutter) Retainers are useful for gathering but aside from storage we could use a bank and crafting item bank. 400 slots are alrdy full.

Housing self explanatory... All they need to do is put instance housing in and that would solve most of the problems. Add more slots is putting a band aid on the problem as ff14 becomes more and more popular the need grows.

Tomestone gathering This one isn't game breaking but having one dungeon per patch just makes it boring to gather tomestone that way. We need variety either put the lvl whatever high lvl it is into the roulette or inc the tomestone from lvl 80 for instance roulette. Either way someone thing needs to replace that dungeon that was taken away. On a related note, I know covid really screwed up the release schedule but we cant have relic be introduced in 5.2 and the meat and potatoes in 5.3 and have less than a year to complete it.

[Ricyosma]

A small list with some points

Technical limitations: The game is showing to have problems keepings things up. This also leads to empty areas, low textures, low render distance of enemies, players, items in housing areas for example. If concerned about PC lagging. Make it an option to make the distance higher.

Viera/hrothgar: I don't think there is much to say about it. They are a mess and in next expansion it needs a fix with hats at the most.

Gear: Gear get's every even patch outdated to quickly and you build the exact same gear up as previous tier. Crafted gear on day one makes your hard earned gear instantly invalid. This most likely has to do with progression of Raid tier Ilvl or crafted gear in general.

Also on topic of gear: Missing content to dump the high end gear in. Not speaking of Ultimates. Just extra content like high end dungeons to make use of your (current tier) Ilvl 490/500 gear in.

Live letters: I love the live letters. The big issue were I walk against is that they don't live translate them. I need to rely on Fan translations from discords. The population is growing and more and more are watching the LL. They need a team to live translate it for AU, NA, EU people at least.

[Eriane_Elis]

The biggest issue is that we don't have new Hildibrand quests. There, I said it. Even if certain phases of it weren't great, I still enjoyed it. SE says it became stale but I say it hasn't gotten stale enough! Wait -- I mean, it can get better! Give me more quests please!

[Yamr3]

TLDR:
My biggest complaint is there's nothing to do that's challenging, difficult, or truly end game for PvE content and here's what I mean. There's nothing to do that's hard and isn't raiding.

Explanation / Long version:
World of Warcraft had this problem too back when I started playing during pre-patch Legion. Past raiding, once I got the mogs I wanted, there was nothing to do. You finish everything on Tuesday or Wednesday and then that's it. There was nothing to repeatedly do that gradually got more challenging over time. I mean, there's Mythic raids but that's another discussion. So, when I finish my weekly resets on Tuesday, that was it. You just raid logged until guild raid night, which I already cleared on reset day. This is the same problem that FFXIV has but WoW fixed it for me by adding Mythic+.

Mythic+ adds that replay-ability and wanting to login everyday. I like that hard stuff. I want something to just keep going at over and over and it gets harder every time. That's a end game loop I'm behind and thoroughly enjoy so much more than raiding in WoW. I always talked down about WoW having nothing to do that's hard outside of Mythic raiding but they added Mythic+ and that's been my jam. FFXIV has the same problems I complained about in WoW. There's nothing to do past raiding and I don't think raiding itself is hard either for FFXIV. It's just a dance but the real hard part is finding 7 other players who know how to perform as well as you do. Yes, there's Ultimate raids but that's the same argument I can say about WoW before they added Mythic+.

Look, I mainly play World of Warcraft and only really looked at FFXIV after seeing an ad for ShadowBringers before it released; because I was really hating how much of a drag Battle For Azeroth was and is ending as. Now, I'm here for the story but not the end game anymore. I used to try and get into raiding in FFXIV but when 9 statics you join all disband within 10 months, you get tired of looking for the "right" static. Maybe it's because I'm on Crystal. Maybe it's because I don't like taking on hard things casually. Maybe it's because I play more seriously than most groups. It can be many things but it's not the point of this thread.

I want more challenging things to do that's not raiding and scales infinitely by getting more difficult and changes weekly. Something like Mythic+ from World of Warcraft. I'm sure FFXIV can provide it but I don't think they figured out how to yet without turning off the massive casual atmosphere they've built over the years.

[Lubu_Mykono]

1. No endgame content
2. No challenging raids anymore
3. Over-priced cash shop
4. Terrible management
5 Even more Terrible Customer support
6. Censorship
7. Bots
8. Crappy net code
9. No graphic updates in years
10. ERP'ers
11. Weebs
12. Simps
13. Traps
14. Thots
15. A community that cannot take criticism.

[Kiurai]

1. No endgame content
2. No challenging raids anymore
3. Over-priced cash shop
4. Terrible management
5 Even more Terrible Customer support
6. Censorship
7. Bots
8. Crappy net code
9. No graphic updates in years
10. ERP'ers
11. Weebs
12. Simps
13. Traps
14. Thots
15. A community that cannot take criticism.

You were like ok for a minute then lost me after 8