So, I was seeing more and more videos popping up about the state of the game and one criticism was that the mechanics in the game are basically all the same, but just with different outfit. And I thought to myself that this is actually true (even though I appreciate how the devs find new ways to make those old mechanics kind of interesting again).

This is why I wanted to share some ideas that came to my mind when watching this FFXIV feedback videos and hope that maybe other people will also share some ideas so that we are actually hyped again for new raid bosses or dungeons (again, they are beautiful and so on, but if you are being honest, there's nothing very daring or innovative about them).

So here are some spontaneous ideas (for lazy reasons, I just copy my comment from the video ):

"Even though I think the game still has its fun and great moments, I have to agree that the creativity is just gone. I once thought during a random dungeon: 'Why can't we have a dungeon boss where you had to jump underwater and swim to a certain spot in a certain time?" or "Why can't we have a trial where you have to solve a jumping puzzle?" (the latter is not even completely out of reach since this is what many of us are doing in the Gold Saucer).

So what this game needs, is a couple of new devs that do not just create solid work (which it still is), but think out of the box and create new mechanics (how about one where you had to stack together and then one at a time run away) and new gameplay (why not have in-game events where there are suddenly hundreds of enemies in a specific zone and you had to team up like with a hunt train to defeat them all)?

Again, I still appreciate the game after all these years, but I honestly think they are not aware of how drastic the changes need to be in order to build up the necessary hype again..."

Additionally I wrote: "Think about this one (I actually just dreamt about it xD): You start in the middle of the arena but the platform is basically flexible and only fixed in the middle with a tower-like-construction.
So whenever you go to the edge as a group, the platform starts going down in this direction. It would probably be a bit tricky to programme that but it is not impossible (Fall Guys do have similar stuff, right?).
Imagine how cool it would be to see a whole group wipe due to wrong positioning and everyone would be falling of the platform. xD I would love to see stuff like that. :P"

Do you also have fun, crazy, innovative ideas for the game?