Feedback from a new player

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I'm happily content doing all the content in the game without mods. It's pretty easy and fun to do, and I feel like it's against the spirit of the game to make things easier just because you can. What's the point, anyways? Is your self worth tied into completing Ultimates or ranking 1 in CC? Are you selling your account or making money some other way by playing the game? One of the reasons I'll always refuse to purchase video game money. I guess if you've no other way to make ends meet, but damn if I'm gonna give money to a botter or mod designer that at best neutrally affect the environment I spend valuable time of my life in.

But, I'm fortunate that most of the stuff I want is already there.

Some of it isn't; I'd like a keybind to 'run backwards' for instance, or 'backpedal' if I'm playing I'm legacy. Not just 'hold strafe +back'. Or, an option to use legacy controls but not have my movement directed by where my camera is facing.

The camera lock on function has always been awesome, but it's limited by not allowing you to enter an enemy's hitbox and run straight away from an enemy when in character based movement, so I'm usually hampering my play when I use it.

Speech bubbles would be nice, they make me look at the world more than the chatbox, and they're useful in getting folks attention mid combat in a way that's harder to tune out than sound effects can be.

A minimap ping is something that WoW always had and FFXIV has lacked; I see some crazy bastards linking flags mid combat to achieve the same but hell if I'm going to click that and navigate my map mid combat.

So yeah, they could be improving things. I doubt idle cam or goose was on anyone's addon list of they were coming from WoW at least, so they have good and fun ideas, but there's a lot of stuff that they still could improve upon.