Ideas to improve FFXIV

[Toutatis]

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* dungeons having multiple routes like criterion

Agree to some extent: what I would change is that the selection of the route should be random every time you step in and not up to players. Otherwise, people would just chose the easiest/fastest.

* unreal changing every 2 weeks with a treasure chest in the duty dropping all the same old stuff + new augment item for the weapons from that fight (and a pity system version of it)

One per patch is too slow but considering how bad some groups can be, two weeks may be too short and many would not bother learning the fights. Some people may not be available either during one or both weeks. Maybe a month or two or release several and rotate them.

*Island sanctuary scrap and do island ishgard making players build it up from scratch in patches

more engagement and customization would be nice.

*trust removed for msq progression only. This is an mmo. Stop catering to single player

I actually use trusts mainly for MSQ: I get to enjoy the story, my cutscenes and the banter without anyone rushing because they already cleared it or are not interested. Watching cutscenes at the inns is not the same and you’ve already been spoiled. I also very occasionally like it to try a new job or skip queue to farm something.

The npcs are so inefficient that I think players who only use trusts would simply not play otherwise so it doesn’t really affect anything. Let them have their fun.

*overworld superboses that aren't just fates or sranks and take hundreds of ppl to kill

hundreds? Hello congestion. No thank you. Hunts with 100+ players are already quite annoying.

*Relic weapons / savage gear upgrade from the previous expansion. Boom now all content is relivant. Does this make it hard for new ppl? No. Unsynch that stuff but now u have a reason to allways be doing it.

no, fresh start is fine. If I want to switch jobs for the new expansion, I don’t have backtrack all the way.

Plus not every past content can be soloed and finding groups can take long. I also think about content like Bozja: last time I found myself alone in the instance most of the time. I had to run around to spawn and solo my own CEs. On top of being tedious and an awful long grind, some people might not be able to do that by the pile of bodies on the ground after group CEs. It would be a pain for new jobs and it would be discouraging for new players.

*stop adding new jobs and fix every job rn so that it's not a homogenised mess.

Agreed and the 2 min meta which is awfully boring.

*balance pvp properly and deal with croud control abuse

Agreed.

[kaynide]

I've said this a lot in any places, so it's beating a dead horse for me, but here they are anyway:

1) Build a proper, real physics engine for the environment. A real 3d-platforming jump and fixed hit boxes.
2) Rework your in-game UI/tooltips to be less TEXTY and more graphical;
---->Put every single jobs' intended rotation in game in a graphical way, with things labeled like they are on the webpage.
---->Explain skill weaving ("These are extra abilities you can use between Global Cooldown skills.")
3) Revise the main menu "orbs"; Specifically why certain things are in "Character Settings" and not "System Settings".
4) Rework job quests to specifically teach the rotation and allow you to test it out/get feedback on doing it correctly. Alternatively add this to The Smith (Options could just be "Current Job Skill Guide")
5) Add more purpose to Open World. Include more things to do in open world that are NOT fates. Minigames (Jumping Puzzles, actual racing, etc; literally just copy Guildwars 2)
6) Next Open Midcore Content- Eureka-sized dungeon(s) with switches/doors/chest/etc where you have to literally delve/search out certain monsters/treasures/paths in a limited amount of time. Certain obstacles cleared might give more time. No bosses rooms but pop-able Eureka-style NMs. See FF11 Dungeons.
7) More Level-free things to do (like Gold Saucer/Ocean Fishing) where people can just goof off -together- without worrying about XP/gear. Casual stuff. Maybe a checkerboard or deck of cards.

[MonsutaMan]

I know a sure-fire way to improve XIV....but will most likely get banned for saying it.....

[sindriiisgaming]

7) More Level-free things to do (like Gold Saucer/Ocean Fishing) where people can just goof off -together- without worrying about XP/gear. Casual stuff. Maybe a checkerboard or deck of cards.

id be down for a minning/botnist version of ocean fishing. (please make them seperate) these worked so well for rs. skilling is genuinly enjoyable and needs expanded on

[sindriiisgaming]

I know a sure-fire way to improve XIV....but will most likely get banned for saying it.....

interesting u havent tried it yourself yet

[DPZ2]

To kaynide: So, in essence, rewrite the whole game and make it something closer to, um, Gear Wars 2 and Final Fantasy 11?

Not sure that the Japanese play checkers. They have something called Shogi, though.

[Boblawblah]

Some of these suggestions lol.

- Change everything about the game
- Make it good
- Stop making it bad

I'm sure the devs will get right on it.

edit: my suggestions

- qol improvements including reducing amount of clicks for a ton of things (retainers, repairing, etc)
- crafting/gathering jobs all can wear the same glamours

I actually use trusts mainly for MSQ: I get to enjoy the story, my cutscenes and the banter without anyone rushing because they already cleared it or are not interested. Watching cutscenes at the inns is not the same and you’ve already been spoiled. I also very occasionally like it to try a new job or skip queue to farm something.

The npcs are so inefficient that I think players who only use trusts would simply not play otherwise so it doesn’t really affect anything. Let them have their fun.

This is me most of the time. If forced to play with people all the time I'll simply not play. Playing with a Trust also feels like canon for MSQ quests.

[sindriiisgaming]

Some of these suggestions lol.

- Change everything about the game
- Make it good
- Stop making it bad

I'm sure the devs will get right on it.

u should include quotes because that is way to vague lol amd actually feels quite annoying how u dismiss genuinly good feedback because of 1 or 2 bad ideas. at least try to contribute ur own. constructive critism makes society function

[Tahbitha]

The npcs are so inefficient

Yep. They sure are. Which suits me fine since I am at least as inefficient as they are, if not more so.

[Jeeqbit]

Did it though? *Thor face*

DAWNTRAIL WILL FIX IT!
they were just hyping up new zones, not new content. they delivered absolutley nothing of value in 6.x that wasnt met with more complaints than praise

I was obviously talking about the MSQ and the story. Not features.

then put it on a daily route, and add that route to the dutyfinder info. they do it with frontline maps, they can do it with dn. alternitivley. add normal criterion to the duty finder for 90 dungeons

They could. I don't really know why they decided to put it in its own User Interface, but maybe they want it "out of the way" of the "casual player" so that they can make the content in V&C as hard as they like.

cant say for sure how hard it is to scale content up, but it cant be that bad. just put the 1s we HAVE had on the cycle at the very least

I feel like they could just sync us to minimum item level, or use the document players came up with for arranging gear to do old content at level 90, but for whatever reason, probably quality concerns, they do it like this.

will do absolutley nothing to improve it. even getting to other islands has to many loops

Still no point getting rid of them, even if they aren't good.

TRUST
they also thought genderlocking was a good buisness decision and player backlash is changing that. theyre not allways right because "it makes money" the solo content kills the game

This is just not the sort of business decision they will change. It's more like a company decision, not a development team decision, because the company as a whole sees value in people being able play all the final fantasy games instead of just certain ones.

the fates hardly ever pop, are set to 90 only zones and are completly redundant after 3 kills. some kind of massive server boss with a new reward system would be far superior to fates because players would have reasons to enrage with the zone. runescape did that great with random events spawnning bosses like evil tree

S ranks aren't but they do die quickly when item levels reach a certain point, so they could have more powerful bosses that always sync, sure.

rewards
well, this 1 is hard for me, because idk what people want.

In that case, they usually give a variety of different rewards from mounts, to glamour, to rewards you can sell for gil, so I think they are fine in this area.