[2024.09.28] Live letter wishlist

[MAJRIS]

Share your ideas and wishes for the next live letter!

What would you personally like to see or hear being finally discussed in more depth than just the forum threads?

My personal wish is to give 5minutes to each of recent hot topics from feedback/forums, and going through them with proposed solutions in the roadmap. Topics for systems that are ever-present and are not expansion-only features:

gameplay - job identity for future beyond increasing max level cap? what about the healers or pvp metas?
visual side - status of ongoing graphical update, ongoing double-dye update, hroth&viera hats, quality check of store items and why at least the paid items aren't hroth&viera compatible by default.
story-writing - life expectancy of zones, changes how the WoL is and will be perceived in the next patches and expansions.
other systems - is adding 200 more storeroom slots and two more housing skins all we can expect for the next 2 years? Is eventual rework or update in the pipeline at all?

If you're not going to bother with things, just say "no". No more "maybe" or "in the future patch but we won't tell which one".


cheers and thanks for reading!

[CaptainLagbeard]

Two things I want to see...

An actual plan to fix healers.

And moving away from the 7.0 MSQ into better written story.

[ovIm]

All I want is for them to bring back Noxious Gnash and make Viper interesting to play again.

[BabyYoda]

Addressing 2 min meta issue, job identity and encounter design overhaul

[Jeeqbit]

I guess I'm only really interested in teasers of the next patch. They have done a "what does the future hold" live letter before, when they talked about the future graphics update at the start of Endwalker, but I am not sure if they are doing that again or not.

• We know that job identity will probably be reviewed for the next expansion and we know that they are considering ideas such as Skill Trees, Ability Points and Talents instead of leveling further. Much as I'd like to know more, I don't expect to until near 8.0.
• They have explained how they balance PvP - they just look at if any single job doesn't have a 50% win rate, and alter it to be more or less powerful based on that. They might eventually see information about a meta and address it but otherwise I expect they will just continue doing that.
• It would be interesting if they would talk about healers; maybe someday? But the extra attack or effects they got every 2 minutes seemed like their response to the feedback. They tried making healing tougher in Abyssos and then there were complaints of "healers avoid PF".
• I think we will see information in one of these live letters about the graphics update coming in 7.1 to older assets and perhaps more things having dual dyes. If we're honest, I doubt hats are more on their agenda than in the past but you never know.
• Maybe someday they will talk about zones being more lively in the way people say GW2 is, but I also think they believe they are lively: they added The Hunt, Treasure Maps and Sightseeing logs back in ARR to give us reason to return to the zones and gathering is already a reason. They have worked hard to make FATEs relevant again by adding Bicolor Gemstone rewards so now people farm in them a lot. Maybe they finally got it right because the farming hasn't entirely dropped off and it has been a while.
• Would like lots of QoL, inventory mergers, merging menus, houses in Island Sanctuary, and things like that. I expect we will get several QoL in each major patch like we have been, but I wish they went further with it and really addressed every QoL issue people have such as weaving abilities at high pings. Not expecting more than several random QoL, a raid planner and Chat Bubbles though to be honest.

If they said no when they plan to do it in the future, that would be lying. Typically when they say they will do something, they do. You can look at a lot of things we've got and then trace back a year or few prior to find where Yoshi-P hinted they were working on it. Reading back old live letters or interviews you can see foreshadowing of what came sometimes over a year later.

[Daralii]

I guess I'm only really interested in teasers of the next patch. They have done a "what does the future hold" live letter before, when they talked about the future graphics update at the start of Endwalker, but I am not sure if they are doing that again or not.

I imagine that was mostly to try and prevent people from offboarding once the main arc was done, and to try and reassure them that they weren't putting the game on the backburner because of it(which rings very hollow now). DT's reception should probably warrant something like that, but it'd probably just be repeating the vague statements Yoshida has thrown out in interviews regarding 8.0.

[Doomfist]

New PVP gear that can be bought with trophy crystals, big white mage buffs to make it in line with the other healers, and unlimited glamour dresser.

[Supersnow845]

I know it won’t happen because like everything else they are incredibly rigid with their live letters but basically I just want them to expand on their planned job overhaul with more than vague promises

Like take a legacy job that’s having problems in its current niche like BLM or WHM and go “okay here is an example of what this level of rework would entail”

Square enix hasn’t done a good rework since 6.0 MNK (which they removed in 7.0 anyway) so vague hints of a maybe in 2 years time isn’t going to hold back the playerbase much longer

[Doragan]

Gulool Ja Ja dating sim.

More seriously, might as well bring out Blitzball since people asked for it since Stormblood. In Tural, that would be pretty fun, imo.

[Reinha]

All I want is for them to bring back Noxious Gnash and make Viper interesting to play again.

This will decide if I stay or leave. They ruined my main job for the last time.