What would you like to see changed or addressed in the game? (poll)

[Theodric]

To be fair, just because the coding is different that does not mean that FFXIV cannot take note of what rival MMO's are doing and seek to take what works and refine it with some personal flair. Back when WoW took itself seriously that is precisely what its development team did - and such a model worked pretty well for quite some time.

As far as I'm concerned gamers are far too eager to make excuses for very wealthy companies that absolutely could stand to invest more time and effort into their products. It's how pretty much every other industry seeking to expand operates. A supermarket, for example, will consistently invest in refining its products and the selection therein so that it can be equal or better than its rivals.

If anything, I think that the lack of direct competition is hurting FFXIV immensely by making it complacent.

[Foraet]

SWTOR has a perk you can buy where moving doesn't interrupt mount summoning. So basically you can keep running while summoning your mount; you don't have to remain stationary. Gotta tell you, for people who haven't experienced this, it's a huge QOL improvement. I'd pay money for this.

[KizuyaKatogami]

To be fair, just because the coding is different that does not mean that FFXIV cannot take note of what rival MMO's are doing and seek to take what works and refine it with some personal flair. Back when WoW took itself seriously that is precisely what its development team did - and such a model worked pretty well for quite some time.

As far as I'm concerned gamers are far too eager to make excuses for very wealthy companies that absolutely could stand to invest more time and effort into their products. It's how pretty much every other industry seeking to expand operates. A supermarket, for example, will consistently invest in refining its products and the selection therein so that it can be equal or better than its rivals.

If anything, I think that the lack of direct competition is hurting FFXIV immensely by making it complacent.

It’s pretty sad when F2P games can come out with more content faster than 14. Also…since reusing assets was brought up, are we not going to mention the elephant in the room of even 10+ years after the start of the game, we still have reused undyable outfits in the game, and undyable mogstation outfits? I wonder what peoples excuses for that would be lol.

[Lauront]

Wish this was a top 3 picks one, as I'd pick gameplay improvements, story improvements and character customisation. Really wasn't a fan of EW's story or its "themes" (Broken Aesop comes to mind)/fake out deaths/overall bending over backwards to "justify" Venat (and then weird Q&A responses which take it in the opposite direction but still want you to see it the same way)/lack of a new cast for 6.1+ so far, so we'll see where the devs are taking it, but I'd also like more midcore content/more thoughtful job design, and more expansive character customisation (for all races) to go along with the graphics upgrades.

Prominent mod/staff presence should be a given.

[Solarra]

Difficult to pick just one. My top 3 -

Housing - I would like to see more houses. I know we've been asking for improvements to the apartments and goodness knows they could do with them, but at this stage I don't want to be fobbed off with minor tweaks and band-aids. The system we have stinks. There are not enough houses to meet demand. This shortage means that very little criticism is made of the wards we do have but they are far from perfect. There are not enough medium and large houses, many plots position the house strangely (e.g. turning houses away from the beach in Shiro and Mist), outdoor slots are far too limited and the interior pillars make decoration a total pain, unless you are prepared to lose precious slots covering the walls.
If they can make an Island Sanctuary for every single player, then they definitely did have the resources to make instanced houses with yards for all who wanted them.

Prominent Moderator/Staff Presence - Yes please! It would be so nice to see the community mods here more often. All we seem to get is a quick intoduction and then the occasional appearance to take the heat when there is a crisis. It's not enough interaction, and the way things are done right now means a lot of the interaction they have with us is negative.
I think it would improve how both sides feel about each other if there was a stronger presence.
A more stringent policy towards forum trolls wouldn't go amiss either. There have been times when this forum has been flooded with necro-posts and click-bait all posted by a handful of accounts. I stopped coming here when it became particularly bad because clearly nothing was going to be done.

Character Customization - My main complaints are with the two new races. They just don't feel finished.
Viera: the situation with hats (is anyone really wearing the 'tiny hat stuck to your character's forehead' affairs we've been given so far?
Hairstyles - Why so few? Why aren't some of the male styles they introduced available to female characters? For a race that's fairly androgynous it makes no sense to me to make hair strictly male or female.
Hrothgar: Needing Fantasia to change your hair was a crazy decision. The hunch means that most hair will clip through most collars. Hairstyles are too few in number and the new ones introduced seem to have been picked either at random or with the intention of annoying people, I've yet to see anyone wearing those except as a joke. Come to think of it, I don't see many Hrothgar at all these days. As to hats removing ears completely, I'm just amazed that anyone thought that was going to go down well.

[Kozh]

As much as I want to pick story improvements, I decided to pick gameplay improvement instead. I would rather endure shitty story but immensely enjoyed the gameplay rather than the opposite.

Sage is pretty much what I envision to be my WoL main job, so I was really hyped when they first showed it. I was led to believe that it will be different than the rest of the healers, as it was advertised as the "dps healer" (I was naive back then I admit). I tried to do EW msq with sage, but can't stomach the spamming of 211111. It's so mind-numbing boring. So yeah, if they could improve gameplay especially for healers, that would be awesome.

With shitty story, I at least can at least make my own fanfic if I really hate it. I mean I already did due to EW (and ShB to some extent). So I guess I am already feel meh about future stories, and that's why I can pick gameplay improvements over story.

[redheadturk]

It was a toss-up between gameplay and character customization for me. In the end I chose gameplay, because while we all agree Hrothgar hair needs fixing badly, they also need to do some serious quality control on their jobs. DRK and SCH need reworks, certain jobs need nerfs in certain categories (Bloodwhetting should not be per hit), job balancing needs to be a tiny bit better, etc etc. Everything else takes backseat to that, in my mind.

Yeah, no, leave Bloodwhetting alone, I like WAR as it is

[Rulakir]

I'd have to say story. I quit playing for a month after EW and seriously considered unsubscribing because I hated it so much. Coming off of ShB, which I loved, I was shocked EW was handled so poorly being a sequential expansion with the same MSQ writer. The protagonists never suffer any consequences or setbacks even during what's supposed to be a world ending threat. The Scions themselves are hypocrites, often engaging in or supporting the same behavior they have condemned others for in the past. I felt I'm ethically not on the same page as the writers, so when Yoshi-P says the next arc will be a "conflict in values" I have a lot of concerns about that. All nuance was lost, "no right side" went completely out the window in EW.

Given it's a rated teen game, I did not expect Saturday Morning Cartoon themes where no matter how grave the threat the heroes will always emerge unscathed while preaching some 'moral of the story' lesson (which I adamantly did not agree with in EW).

[Absimiliard]

Wouldn't mind seeing them take another crack at balancing PvP. Crystalline Conflict is pretty enjoyable, but the amount of crowd control going on in all forms of PvP is pretty out there.

[MistyMew]

What I would like to see is the results of this poll being sent to SE by one of the forum community team reps. AND for them to post publically that they did.

voted for glamour improvements but tbh all areas of the poll are urgent.
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