Thread: You can bring back 2 features from 1.0 what would it be?

Originally Posted by Packetdancer

To be fair, I don't think this one is entirely on SquareEnix, or even on 'casual' players. ARR had some dungeons where they were experimenting with multiple paths and whatnot, and in ARR (and even Heavensward), raids had more than just a single boss fight in a big arena. They were clearly willing to follow that path!

But people started optimizing. Why take the side paths in Haukke Manor, when you can just blow through to the end? Why go into the treasure rooms in Qarn? Why even bother to get the pieces to solve the puzzle? Forget about particular mob mechanics, just gather everything and pull it as far as you can, burn it all down at once.

Even now, when the devs do branch out to try something different—like the Great Hunt (Extreme), or the mechanics challenge in Bardam's Mettle—a vocal portion of the playerbase groans about it being weird or different or just plain inefficient to run compared to other content.

I mean, the playerbase demonstrated that if given dungeons that had multiple side areas to wander into, puzzles to solve, and whatnot... well, we'd treat it as a corridor dungeon and pull until a wall stopped us, ignoring every puzzle possible to ignore. So SquareEnix started giving us corridor dungeons where you pull until a wall stops you. I kinda feel like we as players bear some of the blame there.

(I do agree with all your points otherwise, though.)

The only way you'll get players to interact with the dungeons more is reinventing the dungeons themselves.

There is many ways for dungeons to be more open rather than linear, but the way the Developers have done so far that is not going to happen at this point.

I wouldn't be surprised if FFXIV is ending soon (if this is the last expansion coming up) because of the inherent issues with this game that they can't simply redo.


Actually maybe it will give them a excuse to make a new final fantasy MMO and learn what worked and what did not.

Originally Posted by Kaliesto

The only way you'll get players to interact with the dungeons more is reinventing the dungeons themselves.

There is many ways for dungeons to be more open rather than linear, but the way the Developers have done so far that is not going to happen at this point.

I wouldn't be surprised if FFXIV is ending soon (if this is the last expansion coming up) because of the inherent issues with this game that they can't simply redo.


Actually maybe it will give them a excuse to make a new final fantasy MMO and learn what worked and what did not.

You're right, this is probably the last important expansion we will get. We may get a 7.0 expansion to tie up all loose ends. There's still a war to fight before killing the ascians and even if the ascians are killed IF we can even do it because you know, things happen...Then when all that is done there may still be a grand revelation or a grander enemy to fight and I'm sure if you've played it this far you would have some ideas on what it may be. So maybe 7.0 will be the final expansion before it's on life support like 11. FF14 has a pretty amazing (in size at least) fanbase and if SE can timely move to their next MMORPG where they put what they learned in 11 and 14 then it could be an astonishing MMO. We won't hear about it for some time due to the fact that they must promote 6.0 before talking about their next MMO but I am excited to find out.

Only 2?!

1.} Absolutely Auto-Hide chat log. It makes the screen so much more clean and you really get to immerse yourself into the game when its doing its own thing when people are quiet.
2.} Quality cutscenes. If 1.0 did anything right, it was their cutscenes. The 1.0 development team clearly loved their game. Unfinished, and a mess, yes, but loved very dearly.

1) Shards and crystals dropping from everything.
2) The original lala walk.
3) Tears for Mor Dhona

#1 It's a toss between better cutscenes or better dungeons. The cinematography was certainly better for some cutscenes in 1.0, and weren't you rewarded extra for doing more(tasks?) in certain dungeons?

#2 I totally miss the run-stop animation(s). I know it wouldn't be able to come back in quite the same way, because of how content is run now, but PSO2 doesn't seem to have issue with it.

run stop animations were great, did they explain why they took it out?