What do you hope to see at E3?

[MicahZerrshia]

Well not "see" as the brilliant SE marketing team took away our E3 eye candy.

There are alot of new (and good) mmos either just hitting or on the horizon and ffxiv needs to compete or flush. But what do you most wish to hear about at E3 when it comes to the changes/additions coming in 2.0 that will help it in this competition? I know many will be screaming about the jobs so lets look beyond that. I know with brand loyalty and hopes for 2.0 waning there are quite a few playing other mmos (I myself only log in at this point for ls events and log right back out again after) so lets compare. What are your biggest hopes for the soon to come announcements and what do you think will give ffxiv a good shot at surviving in this sea of mmorpgs?

Mine?

I will give 2, my 2 biggest qualms with ffxi/xiv actually

1
A change to the battle system. tap...wait 3 seconds...tap...wait 3 seconds...tap...
gotta say, I fall asleep at my keyboard...literally lol. The battle system feels like its designed for my grandma. With the most interactive thing being stepping to the side the get a combo the combat is lackluster at best. I have spent this last week playing TERA and generic questing aside the combat system in that game is insane in comparison and makes me want to play.

2
I know other mmos have this too and I hate it in each and every one. ffxi we see it in the trial of magians and its seeping into our af weapons. Collect X amount of items for X piece of gear. This system in and of itself isnt 100% bad but se takes it to the extreme. I busted my butt in ffxi for a ring, a head piece, a body piece, a leg piece, etc cause at the time it was fan-freakin-tastic gear and the story line was great as well. But the whole system they introduced with magians in xi of killing nm1 50 times, killing nm2 50 times, nm3 75 times, nm4 1000 times, etc. for one sword, or even collect 8 of this low rate drop and 6 if this lower rate drop is b-o-r-i-n-g. I simply refuse to get an empy in xi, I dont need to spend 200 hrs getting an extra 1.5 dps on my sword. Mythics sucked for it too but at least you can do more than 1 thing 1500 times. With the af weapons Im scared this is coming to xiv now. 9 low rate drops from hamlet defense and 25k seals, and who knows what else? yay i get to run toto-rak 20 times. no thanks. gimme an interesting QUEST system please ^^

Ok you go!

[KiriA500]

More Aliens: Colonial Marines!

Also anything related to FFXIV...

[Babydoll]

I hope to see artwork of new races, new zones, new jobs, etc.

[Nero]

I hope to see artwork of new races, new zones, new jobs, etc.

^ This.

Additional Note:

I would like to see an explanation of the new UI and esp of the Storage/gear/Slot System ( w/e they going to call it),which you can see on the very first Screenshot.

[Andrien]

I hope to see artwork of new races, new zones, new jobs, etc.

Best post on this thread.

[Rane]

More than anything else, I hope to see the new environments. It would be really nice if they updated some of the area maps found in the 2.0 PDFs as well. I'd love to see how that forest map is panning out. I'd also really like to see the inside of Ishgard.

Quite some time ago Yoshida said something about creating a new flow for the early and middle stages of the game. I think the idea was that you naturally move from city to city as you level up, eventually choosing a home city by level 40 or so. (Sorry, I read this a long time ago, and I really don't want to go back and hunt for it.) I hope we hear more about how that is going to work. Finally, I'd love to know more about the Crystal Tower, "Labyrinth", and the dragon battles of Ishgard.

[Akira_Tenshi]

I think it is about damn time we saw more than concept shots and artwork.

[Riv]

lol @ this thread

[Nero]

lol @ this thread

lol @ your post.

[Valtrex]

I'd be happy seeing anything at all, since it doesn't sound much like we will.