Final Fantasy XIV Hot Takes

[Lustre]

Endwalker should never have happened. Immensely disappointing resolution.

[SpiralMask]

blue mage having never been added at all would be better than it's current incarnation.

viera shouldn't have been forced in for ShB and those animation assets likely were originally for female hrothgar.
the bunnies could easily be held off until whatever expac comes after EW (after presumably having dealt with everything in ivalice/dalmasca being freed)

[Kuroka]

Treasure maps should give tokens, both when leaving after clearing the final chamber and getting kicked out, that can be traded for map materials including the one most recently added to the game. I've been trying and failing miserably to get map materials without having to pay someone else since Stormblood release and I'm tired of weighing not paying the bad luck tax vs never getting the item I'm after.

Yes, its one of those things where we desperatly need an backup for bad luck...

[whitemoonflower]

An opportunity was missed with YoRHa: Dark Apocalypse.

They could've revealed that the Automata crew was returning to one of the remaining shards, that shard being a vague reference to the future of our world. This would've added a profound implication to the potential fate of the reflections in EW, enhancing XIV's lore meaningfully instead of them just being "here and gone in a haze of obscurity".

[spookiebruh]

Don't know if this is a hot take or not but i want to see more races, or atleast better customization on existing ones, not just Viera and Hrothgar.

[EagleDynamics]

Endwalker should never have happened. Immensely disappointing resolution.

true. some things in the story definitely should not have been there in the first place.

[Liam_Harper]

When someone asks for a recommendation on the strongest class, it's ok to actually tell them the numerically strongest class. It won't end the world.

The community is so averse to being seen as "meta slaves", that even when someone clearly states they enjoy the gameplay of multiple classes equally, they will always get spammed with "pick what you enjoy, dps doesn't matter in this game, you'll do worse with a class you don't like" and the question never actually gets answered. It's such a simple question, but taboo to answer it directly.

Another one is that there are far, far more players who obsess over the idea that people use only logs to stroke their ego, than the actual handful who use logs to stroke their ego.

[Raoabolic]

The writer for the ARR/HW story should have come back to helm Endwalker. I'll say it, I don't mind. The new writer that replaced him has been hit and miss at best.

[Jillian]

The fact that SE charges $5 for event food item furnishings that can be easily ruined is ridiculous. Give us a freaking toggle to turn off usability of the food.

[Atelier-Bagur]

Endwalker should never have happened. Immensely disappointing resolution.

Lets take this even further. FFXIV should never have happened. 2.0 and beyond was a mistake and I rather wish this game crashed and burn at 1.0 than having this timeline where I have to interact and spend my time arguing over the current game with all of you turbo nerds.