What improvements would you like to see in the environment?

[TheMightyMollusk]

Let me land on any flat surface, not just the ones that were reachable without flying. If I fits, I wants to sits.

[lezard21]

I'd like to see what they did in Zadnor.

Except the complete opposite.

Yes people will come and say "It's supposed to be a devastated warfare zone of course it'll look like crap", but that doesn't mean it can look like interesting crap. Zadnor lacks any ruined buildings or structures like Bozja had, any ruined fortress, or man hole, an abandoned factory or village, a river or lake or any significant landmark. What we got looks more barren than a 1999 Counter Strike map.

[KageTokage]

I enjoy hunts, but I wish there were some legitimately "rare" ones with unique rewards and extremely prohibitive (But still predictable) spawn conditions that make their appearances a really big deal.

It seems like a waste to have all these fancy weather effects in each zone when they're only used for a handful of rare fish past ARR.

[Theodric]

I'd like to see:

- Various small animals that can be seen but not attacked in places that make sense. You might see a snake slithering about in a dark cave, rats scurrying on a pier and a cat lurking on a rooftop. Stuff like that adds a lot of realism to a game world and MMO's much older than FFXIV manage to do it just fine.

- More buildings that can be entered and explored. The ARR settlements have a lot of neat buildings that can be entered, including taverns that are there purely for immersion rather than quests.

- Rare NPC's that hand out special minions, housing items and the like. Sort of like how there's that NPC in Western La Noscea that exchanges items for a Wind Up Sun and a Wind Up Moon.

[KizuyaKatogami]

I’d like to see more npcs in zones period. ESO does this very well where you can find npcs basically all over, exploring areas and everything. Maybe have some special npc interactions that are randomly generated in zones and stuff. Just things to make certain areas feel more alive. Maybe see something like in Raktika, some Viera tribeswomen hunting animal mobs. Things like that.

[LogicHatesMe]

I'd like to see seasons, and new areas added to the older zones, I mean everything below the latest expansion is basically forgotten every major expansion, ARR-SHB zones will stay as they are, and only new things will come in EW zones. Except maybe new materials to gather.. and new FATE's.. maybe. So I'd like to see them devote an entire expansion to populating the ARR-SHB areas with new zones, new quests, new towns, new enemies etc. So that if you decided you wanted to play the game again from the start, you would experience a lot of new content. Of course, Square-Enix don't want you to do this, their answer is "you have NG+ and fantasia, you don't need to play the game again" which i think is a missed opportunity, they might make more cash if they gave you a reason to play through again.

Most MMO's (and this is not really a complaint, just an observation) seem to focus all their efforts on end-game content, like keeping their long term players happy is the ONLY important thing to them. A lot of folk complain there's not enough new raids and such at end-game.. well you get a lot more content than low to mid game gets lol, can we have some new 20-70 optional dungeons maybe?

[TheVigilant]

I'd like to see:

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- Rare NPC's that hand out special minions, housing items and the like. Sort of like how there's that NPC in Western La Noscea that exchanges items for a Wind Up Sun and a Wind Up Moon.

It can be a rare black market NPC that appears on specific times in specific places or maybe travels around, selling special items for a specific currency, if not gil?

[StormyFae]

Well, I personnaly would like it if the weather itself had physical/mental effects on the characters using the gods...

for example if we choice a god with the water nature (we get a small boost during Rain/ or water related weather..

Also .. Personally id like the environment to show us the fish we catch instead of a white light lol ... and for the love that is all unholy.. Bring back ffxi fisher guild npc that you could sell fish to for gil... (like seriosely)

[TroySoFab]

People have wanted butt sliders for awhile. Maybe give the environment a butt slider.

[kaynide]

+1 to more NPCs doing “stuff” in towns and open world. GW2 does a great job at this and it makes the world feel very alive.

For me, I wouldn’t mind seeing smaller, more intricate zones. Or zones that just have a lot of details shoved everywhere.

I would also like more open world “adventure”; places that are very dangerous to wander around in and will most certainly result in death..but also there are great rewards to be found.

Also, controversial, but I would like the world to just be more lethal in general. It’s absolutely a relic of “the old days”, but I really enjoyed the stress and payoff of dungeon delving in FF11. Lots of cat and mouse with mobs!

Finally, easy one: have the fishing voyage actually move through the sea and not park.