Minor Gripes You'd Like To See Changed or Fixed: A Thread

[RitsukoSonoda]

Things that come to mind.

1. Being able to turn the loft steps to face the other way. I'd wanted to put 2 lofts on opposing sides of the room with the stairs to them facing each other in the center of the room but could not get the game to turn the stairs to go to the other loft.
2. A male race with a size comparable to Miqo'te and Au'ra females. I'm referring to total mass, not just height. Currently the male character options are choices choosing what category of body builder you want to be, or being a potato. Given that the game is made by a Japan based company I'm kind of surprised we don't have this.
3. More customization options in the character creator. It just feels a bit outdated after playing other games that let you create your own character.
4. Moogles as a playable race... I've been salty about not being able to play the FF MMO as a moogle since FFXI back in 2002... >.>
5. SMN egi. SMN in this game feels lackluster compared to previous titles. The main reason for it is the Egi's. They honestly to me look more like cosmetic pets than actual summons. Even FFXI had actual summons though they were much smaller than the prime avatars you had to fight to unlock them. Yeah when I say lackluster I'm talking about visuals in this case. The egi's are lackluster and additionally we only have 3 summons while previous titles had more available.

[glitteringcosmos]

Things that come to mind.

1. Being able to turn the loft steps to face the other way. I'd wanted to put 2 lofts on opposing sides of the room with the stairs to them facing each other in the center of the room but could not get the game to turn the stairs to go to the other loft.
2. A male race with a size comparable to Miqo'te and Au'ra females. I'm referring to total mass, not just height. Currently the male character options are choices choosing what category of body builder you want to be, or being a potato. Given that the game is made by a Japan based company I'm kind of surprised we don't have this.
3. More customization options in the character creator. It just feels a bit outdated after playing other games that let you create your own character.
4. Moogles as a playable race... I've been salty about not being able to play the FF MMO as a moogle since FFXI back in 2002... >.>
5. SMN egi. SMN in this game feels lackluster compared to previous titles. The main reason for it is the Egi's. They honestly to me look more like cosmetic pets than actual summons. Even FFXI had actual summons though they were much smaller than the prime avatars you had to fight to unlock them. Yeah when I say lackluster I'm talking about visuals in this case. The egi's are lackluster and additionally we only have 3 summons while previous titles had more available.

1. GODS YES THIS. This is what I was referring to when I mentioned furniture flipping. Not being able to flip stairs is absolute murder on the layout planning.
2. You can kiiiiinda achieve this with the midlander Hyur but.... agreed. Males in general in this game just aren't given the same attention that females are and it shows.
3. Hard agree. Also remove the makeup options from the face paint and put them in separate windows. And put the freckles in the facial features window.
4. :O I've never heard of/thought of this before... Interesting food for thought!!
5. YES. We've been promised updates on the SMN egis since HW, SE!! When will they follow through???

[Khalithar]

Lobby errors and errors in general shouldn't close the game, it should immediately put you back at the start menu.

[Morningstar1337]

I forgot another one. Macro icons. I get they're probably used with the intention using the depicted skill, but the fact that they remain dimmed on other jobs is an annoyance for those that do not even require combat like gearset macros or role macros that consolidate all the skills in one button (I have such for Healers because I's more space efficient and I like the option of mouseovers). As such I would like the option to have them stay lit despite no being in PVP instances or another job.

[Jirah]

Alow me to change the subboss music , Shadowbringers subboss music is trash outside of Twinning and ruins the aesthetic in most like Gauntlet and Amaurot

[MoofiaBossVal]

1. Fix the terrible job gameplay while leveling. I shouldn't have to wait until the mid 60s/70s to get all of my core job rotation and mechanics, like the Dragoon gauge. Good lord. The player should have their core stuff by 50. Stop doing the WoW thing where you feel like you have to stretch out all of the abilities the player gets across the entire 1 to level cap experience. It's okay to have nearly everything at 50 and then get maybe a couple abilities from 50 to 80.

2. It'd be a lot of effort for the team to rebalance the instances for this, but I'd like to be able to actually play with my full kit outside of 80 content, such as in HW dungeons.

3. Redo the English voice acting for ARR and bring it up to modern standards. You could still keep the old voice files and let the players select between the old or the new dubs, if you want. The old ARR voice acting doesn't inspire confidence in newcomers to the game who heard that this was was a good story heavy JRPG, and I think it'd be worth the investment.

4. Implement trusts for ARR, HW, and Stormblood dungeons. For the ARR dungeons, you would probably group up with adventurers, GC soldiers, and Scions. For HW through Stormblood, you'll obviously go through it with the main characters of those expansions, ie going through Sohm Al with Estinien, Alphinaud, and Ysalye, or going through Bardam's Mettle with Hien, Gosetsu, and Yugiri or the Mol girl.

6. Trusts while doing the MSQ in the open world. Do the WoW thing where the Trusts look like the characters to you, ie like the Scions, but to other players they look like generic mercenary soldiers. I'm not sure if FFXIV's tech can support this, though.

5. Implement more minigames. The two puzzles from this year's Rising event were really fun. I also loved the riddles from the Easter event. You could add more minigames into the MSQ and to the Gold Saucer (I spend half of my time hanging out at the Gold Saucer).

6. Use phasing to update the world as you progress through the MSQ. As of 3.3, it makes no sense for the Brume to still be in ruins with homeless people lying around. It also doesn't make sense for those guys at the Convictory in Western Coerthas to still be shivering in the snow waiting for a dragon to come to the ground so they can try to kill it to climb up society. As of 4.0, Ul'dah's refugee crisis should be declining as Ala Mhigans return home.

7. Please move the Prima Vista a little bit to the side so that it isn't obstructing the sunset in Kugane.

Alow me to change the subboss music , Shadowbringers subboss music is trash outside of Twinning and ruins the aesthetic in most like Gauntlet and Amaurot

^^^^

The new Shadowbringers mid-boss music is terrible for almost all of the 5.0 dungeons. The old music was much more in line with the tone of the story. Remember going through Amaurot, and the eerie music that played when you fought the beasts? And then they replaced that with a cheesy rock remix, which deflates the terror of the experience.

[glitteringcosmos]

3. Redo the English voice acting for ARR and bring it up to modern standards. You could still keep the old voice files and let the players select between the old or the new dubs, if you want. The old ARR voice acting doesn't inspire confidence in newcomers to the game who heard that this was was a good story heavy JRPG, and I think it'd be worth the investment.

4. Implement trusts for ARR, HW, and Stormblood dungeons. For the ARR dungeons, you would probably group up with adventurers, GC soldiers, and Scions. For HW through Stormblood, you'll obviously go through it with the main characters of those expansions, ie going through Sohm Al with Estinien, Alphinaud, and Ysalye, or going through Bardam's Mettle with Hien, Gosetsu, and Yugiri or the Mol girl.

Oh my LORD these two things, absolutely. I don't remember why it was they switched casting companies (I believe it was something to do with contracts with SE as a whole vs. the game itself) but it is 100000000% worth going back and rerecording the ARR dialogue with the new cast. Some of them were passable, even enjoyable (Sam Riegel made a great Alphinaud and Merlwyb's VA in HW onward was a downgrade from Jean Gilpin imo) but most of the cast were absolute horrid. Delivery, cast choicing, everything, it was all bad and would be WAY more immersive if they rerecorded ARR with the new cast.

AND FOR THE LOVE OF THE TWELVE YES PLEASE give us the trust for expansions. I kind of touched on this with the point about squadrons, but the squadron AI is so bad it makes it essentially useless to level with them in ARR/HW content. I would love for a trust system in SB and HW, especially in dungeons we know we're canonically running with the NPCs (Such as the Aery and Bardam's Mettle).

[Nighthawky2010]

I love the squadrons...AI is bad but they are OP & they do AOEs! Thats my only issue with the Trust...they need to be program to do AOEs.

[Sauteed]

Please allow housing to be shared among characters on the world on the same account.

[KageTokage]

Make it so sitting on something like a bench or chair doesn't prevent you from doing extremely basic things like joining a party.

Add more "quick report" options for stuff other then RMT; particularly botting.