Thinks you like and things you dislike about FFXIV.

[Velaethia]

I'll go first.

Likes:

Gear dying.

All armor is actual 3d models.

All content can be done as if it's current content.

All jobs can be done on one character.

One of if not the absolute best video game stories and world building ever.

Flying is relatively easily accessible.

Yoshi P. A game director who actually loves, who actually plays, who actually have passion for the game. I may not agree with all of his opinions or design choices for the game but I have mad respect for him and wouldn't take anyone else as game director.

The community. While it's not perfect is one of the nicest and friendly online communities I've ever encountered.

It feels like home. There is a comfort and a community here. It's like a home away from home.

The diversity of bodies from dommy mommies to uwu smol bean bois to big daddies to short stack ladies and even playable potatoes.

Sadu

All jobs are viable and acceptable in the "meta". An incredibly difficult feat.

Every npc has a life story, the world feels so alive.

Dislikes:

2.5 second GCD. It does get less atrocious at higher levels with plentiful ogcds and some jobs reduce their GCD a bit.

When you're sync'd down to a lower level you lose all your higher-level abilities And a lot of jobs are not fun pre 60.

You cannot manually lower your level or sync with a party member in the open world.

No pet jobs. I understand pet AI was atrocious and was not easily fixable but as someone who loves pet classes in any game that has them it does make me sad.

The character models still look good and are getting an update but the customisation options seem on the low side for modern video games. The amount of tattoos in particular are atrocious and Au Ra having their face and horn type merged bothers me. Also the fact that there are many npcs with customisation options players don't have despite clearly using player model.

No nature-oriented jobs. 20, soon to be 22 jobs and the only semi nature-oriented job white mage loses that as they get to higher level. Give me geomancer please.

The price tag on additional retainers. $2 per is kinda oof. I get that they probably take up additional server space but still.

The way the glamour dresser works. Why does it work like that? 800 slots (and that's higher then it used to be). Why can't it work like WoW transmog. Which is similiar to mounts/minions where you unlock appearances rather then store them.

Alt unfriendly. Almost nothing is account bound. A new alt might as well be a new account in most instances. You don't NEED an alt in this game. You can do everything on one character, so it is understandable to a degree but it still sucks.

The artificial scarcity of housing.

No butt slider.

Paladins don't feel much like paladins, and bard don't feel much like bards.

The ugly default underwear and the ugly default sandles we wear while "barefoot"

[MAJRIS]

I don't like that it starts to remind me activision/blizzard management.


Insanely impressive amount of PR on social networks and various form of advertisement (even with weird visuals or meme-bad quality acting) pumped around the English-speaking world.
and on the other hand completely abandoned player's requests like making the cracked window dye-able or last part of the Chocobo suit to made into the game (the Chocobo Shoes) that might take one intern maybe few hours of paid time. Despite such threads are being bumped often, no official response from anyone from the team.


Merging content - Relics being part of Hildi? Trial is part of msq? Ladies dance+Hatching tide merging

Quality control - Gaia's attire leg color, Iceheart attire being novice hall set, optional shop items still not supporting viera/hroth

Guys, what's going on? The PR is already great, you can move 5% from PR firepower into people that create and maintain in-game content.

[CelestiCer]

- Likes?
Everything from Social interactions, Friends, Story, Worldbuilding, Housing, Gposing, Glamour, Characters etc

- Dislikes?
The current trajectory direction of Job Design and Job Gameplay being utterly simplified, homogenized to solve absolutely nothing and making me not enjoy pretty much every part of PvE combat from casual to high-end....

[DBriggs304]

Likes: Most things in game. Community, story, character options. World.
Dislikes: Ease of some content, Glamour system (wish they would adopt wow transmog system), World feels confining sometimes with the invisible walls.

[Merrigan]

Like : community as a whole, possibility to experience every job, story, the fact that old content isn't forgotten ("to date" would be untrue).
Dislike : lack of complexity in many job's design, the fact that the open world isn't a threat (yeah, I'm crying about this point in every mmorpg), and the "friendship powa" and "kawai" aesthetics.

[HeyMcFly]

I dislike:
- The lack of character customization in FFXIV, it makes sense why so many turn to mods
- the deafness of the devs when players ask for the same thing for years, and nothing comes of it
- How housing is tied to subscriptions but housing base interior customization and improved UI hasn't been updated in years.
- Y'shtola
- Yanxia, Kugane and most of Stormblood
- How limited many aspects of this game are like the glamour system and blocking players barely does the trick


I like:
- the Chocobo
- the music
- Thancred Waters
- most of the writing
- Sharlayan and Kholusia

[TheMightyMollusk]

In no particular order, aside from the first dislike.

Likes:
-The story, for the most part.
-Alexander. RISE WITH ME!
-The Scions.
-Being able to do every class on one character.
-The Gold Saucer.
-The dark knight job quests.

Dislikes:
-Zenos.
-Restrictions on Viera and Hrothgar.
-Power creep and gear inflation turning old content into a cakewalk.
-Time travel with poorly-defined rules.
-Little to nothing being shared across characters on the same account.
-The house/ward system.
-Endwalker's poor pacing and overly condensed story.

[Battler-Ushiromiya]

I don't dislike anything, the game is perfect as is.

[strawberrycake]

Likes:
Story/Would Narratives and building.
Raiding and Enaging Content.
Relics(When they aren't tome Related)
The OST.
PvP

Dislikes:
Parts Of the Community.
People who have come in after Stormblood who act like they know whats best for XIV.
Easy Content.
Tome Relics.
Macro Crafting.
Yoshida Being vague.
Dots Slowly Being Removed.
Oversimplification of Jobs.
Lack of Updates to the Tutorials.
Mentor System.
Lack of Community Managers for NA.
The state of Critiereon/Variant Dungeons.
How much you have to use Discord to do content.

[BokoToloko]

Likes: Dancer, Dragoon, Samurai, Warrior, Field Operations, Deep Dungeons, overarching story (specially FFXIV), diversified content,... And friends made along the way, I guess.

Dislikes: Healer jobs, people who main (or, worse, who OTP) healer jobs, and if, on top of that, they're Curebotting, I start to see red. The fact most changes in housing nowadays amount to stopgap measures for the lack of plots, the abandonment of small plots that make people prefer to not have a plot at all rather than have a small plot, cliches in MSQ cutscenes and the yet notable scarcity of glamour dresser space and plates. Oh, and Crystal Tower (the ilvl restriction might have fixed a bit of the AR roulette bias towards CT but, still, those raids are a complete bore). And Criterion dungeons, from their inception. And other mentors whenever I'm locked in an EX trial with them (most of them more useless than the sprouts). And the people who spam guildhests for commendations.