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

I would like to bring back the ability to request repairs from a friend. I’d not want the required material like it used to have in 1.0

(1) Nail of the Heavens

thats it...
but if i MUST have a #2, I guess some of the removed locations as additional zones to the 2.0 areas.

Every race (and both genders of those races) (if they had their opposite gender.) having different death animations. A wipe would look more realistic (and less weird) if everyone didn’t collapse the exact same way.

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.

Originally Posted by Packetdancer

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The reason it's like this is because, like you said, the rewards do not match the effort. When it comes to innovating they also need to be a little more aware of the reward system. People treat things like corridor dungeons simply because there is no need not to. If SE tackled that issue and made effort more equal to reward, they could do a lot more in a variety of places. Dynamis in FFXI is the perfect example. You could go in there and skip packs as you go straight to the bosses and be in and out or you could farm the entire zone. And people farmed the entire zone because it was worthwhile, even fodder hidden across the map could potentially drop something valuable, which made running across the map to an area you would never go otherwise to kill those 2 enemies, the norm. The fact that fodder enemies and alternative paths have no purpose outside of making something longer is the issue.

That goes for the groaners too. If SE would innovate a little more often and work on their effort vs rewards system, they could do a lot with likely less pushback. There will always be pushback but there is also going to be the group that eagerly awaits what they have up their sleeve next. It would also make innovation more palatable to the groaners who are so used to corridors and arenas that refuse to give something new a shot.

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.