Small things that might make FF14 better

[Virtuso]

XII is my second favorite FF game, after VII, and the last excellent one, but don't ask me why, I don't even know myself.

I feel similar. While I hated XII at first because of it's story, which is what I loved the FF series for. On my second play through I delved deep into the Mark system and focused more on the side quests and those were brilliant. Who can ever forget suddenly finding themselves cornered by Gilgamesh and facing off against his Swords of Legend. Or running circles trying to keep up with the fabled White Chocobo. Or accidentally falling into an Esper's lair while hunting something else entirely.

XII had the best side quest system ever in the entire FF series by leaps and bounds. And they did it without loading it up with cinematics and voice acting. Leading me to feel it'd be perfect for an MMO.

Honestly I always felt if they just took FF XII and activated an "MMO Switch" That alone would be more fun then most MMO's I've played.