What would you do if you had control over FFXIV?

[Crowzer]

Add more instanced PvP. Like big battlegrounds with only 2 factions (for example: Immortal VS maelstrom, or Maelstrom VS Twin Adder, etc...). Could be 48 VS 48 on large maps with objectives to do and a time limit. Specific mounts and cosmetics as reward.

Add improved and higher resolution texture packs as an option.

Reworking Glamour system at some point.

Reworking UI menus.

dismount automatically when attacking to initiate combat

Oh yes !


In all cased, I would love to see SE innovate by adding new features, can be risky fore sure, but could be amazing.

[Izar_Chillen]

Make circle target damage such as Salted Earth and healing skills such as Asylum , be place on a double tap.

Get rid of that lowered potency on multiple targets nonsense on dot spread abilities, or special aoe skill attacks for some jobs or vastly improve the potency loss on multiple targets

Make Iron Jaw spread the two bites for Bard so they dont have to spend loads of gcds dotting as many mobs as possible

Alter Summoners Baha/Phoenix code so they will auto/special attack whilst moving or rather dont make them follow the Summoner as they cant be hit by anything anyways so they always get their auto/special shot off the moment you press relevant skills.

Create a new Archer splinter job so that ARC can also become a Ranger or Warden , something aligned with its Gridanian woodland , elemental roots .Perhaps pure ranged arrow DPS with a few elemental attacks specials from forest beasts or trees/plant life for CC and poison


WHM Cure 2 replaces Cure . Free Cure has been removed . Regen will now be granted at lvl 20 . Benediction will now be granted at level 35. A new passive ability One With The Elements will granted at level 40 which reduces the cool-down of presence of mind by 1 second each time Stone/Glare is a critical hit.

BLM: Freeze will now been granted at level 20 . Thunder 3/4 has been merged with their Thunder 1/3 counter part . Ley lines is now a passive buff on the same timer , and Aetherial Manipulation now has 2 charges. Between the Lines has been removed.

WAR Beast skills are now ogcds.

Tank Jobs : Provoke and ranged enmity generator skill such as Tomahawk are now ogcds and do not interrupt your combos . Reprisal's damage reduction effect of 10% has been merged into the Arms length ability and Reprisal ability removed. Reprisals damage reduction length has been increased to 15 seconds to match the slowing effect timer of Arms Length and Arms Length now has a recast timer 120 seconds.

[WoW]

Delete Balmung and Mateus

[Dragonblanco]

Delete Balmung and Mateus

lmao, ok. I've been seeing that enough but never spent time to Google it. What's the story with that joke about deleting Balmung?

[Kozh]

I'm going to be selfish and say "give minfilia her deserved proper development, instead of introducing new character who's more emotionally related to thancred than us anyway. Oh, and kill off g'raha in 5.3".
Minfilia not having a scene of her own and is sacrificed for ryne, for me, was the devs went "hey hey guys, look we finally kill the npc you hate. Love us pls". If they aren't brave enough to develop her or don't care enough, I preferred they didn't show her at all rather than... what happened in ShB.

And also, maybe have the team develop mystic knight/spellblade job as melee dps, and chemist as the next healer (yes I'm still sad it turns into sage).

[Tranquilmelody7]

1. Add a leech mount to the game
2. Give the 'Living Dead' skill the rework it's always deserved
3. Add a in-game hunt tracker for S ranks, limited to only telling whether their minimum CD has been breached
4. Change the Wol featured in promotional content to a fish
5. Hand leadership back to Yoshi and co and sincerely thank them for allowing my dreams to be more than dreams

[Novae]

I'd porbably ruin the game if I had control over it.

But I'd love to see a glamour revamp and a global chat. I really miss that kind of chat from other MMOs.

[Payadopa]

this kind of thread proves that plebs cannot and should not be in charge of ideas.

you can throw money and more time at a problem - you will have a lack of manpower because there just won't be enough talent to fill it.
you can throw people and money at a problem - you will run into a lack of time because it will take time to train said people and get them up to snuff. you want to keep this game on a schedule right?
you can throw time and people at a problem - you will run into a lack of money. it doesn't grow on trees and shareholders/CEO's aren't just going to let you do what you want however you want.

Thank, self-proclaimed arbiter of what is right and wrong.
We have a forum so we can say what we think about a given subject. I don't expect SE take everything at face value but feedback to work off of as a game designer goes a long way as to not become tone deaf. So far SE has done a great job if numbers are anything to go by but that doesn't mean there isn't room for improvement. Should go without saying. It also doesn't mean 'reee, implement it right away!'

[TTiscancer]

Hire Yoshida and tell him to take control.

[SamSmoot]

1. Make the market board work like the WoW auction house,. One interface, no retainers, and just walk away from any menu to close,
2. Get rid of all the unnecessary confirmation clicks. If I click in a door to open it, why do I have to click again. If it was accidental, it only takes a couple seconds to return.
3. Make it much easier to buy and start the game. I nearly gave up on the game while trying to figure that part out.
4. Shorten the AFK timeout so we don't get server full announcements all the time.
5. Don't ask for the authenticator code if your computer / IP address hasn't changed. Should not have to enter the code every time (Like WoW again.)
6. Instanced housing plots. Only one ward in each area, which would result in may more players out in the neighborhood, instead of being spread across 24 wards.
7. Greatly increase success rate for overmelding. Make it 20 % or higher.
8. Let players kill the gil spammers. If over 100 different accounts report the same spammer, they get shut down automatically.