Wishlist for 8.0

[Hallarem]

Let's try something a bit more constructive here and publish a personal wishlist for what we want to see from 8.0 going forward to revitalize FFXIV for years to come.

Let's also TRY to just publish wishlists and not devsplain or nitpick apart everyone elses lists, atleast before publishing our own lists.

STORY

A focus on more tightknit political stories, down to "earth" and approachable storylines. Make the nations of the world matter, make their relations to each other matter. Tone down the story from ends of the universe and boombastic explosions from universe-ending beings.

Focus on character-focused stories again, make us care for characters and their motivations. Focus on making dialogue believable between characters, reintroduce the Scions with their own motivations at the forefront instead of sidelining everyones motivations for the plot and making all characters just signposts or exposition banks on the way to a boss battle.

Think about your worldbuilding and how every decision you make affects it, including introducing technology or new types of magics. Include seasonal events as apart of explaining the lore and storylines of areas, visiting old regions to do so and show us how they change culturally or how they express their culture. Keep a tight knit package, less is more, just because you think something is cool don't add it. Think of the ramifications to the lore and worldbuilding. Work around the lore, do not insert a thing and make the lore work around it.

(Personal wish, make the next MSQ focus around a love story, a lot of FF's have a central lovestory to them. Also start focusing on your own stories instead of borrowing them from other FF's)

[Hallarem]

Gameplay & Quality of life

- Friendslist needs a rework
- More space in linkshells, chat ui needs a rework too, along with chat bubbles that are coming
- Remove time limit from exploration modes
- invest in a DM-mode for larger groups roleplaying, with systems to lay down markers for more than 8 people at a time, and other flavor improvements to roleplay dungeon mastering
- More "vanilla" emotes, that most of the npc's already can do. So we can express our characters better. Simple leans, daily actions, drinking out of bottles etc
- More glamslots
- More dyeslots
- Furniture maximum limit increase for housing
- Housing system needs more mobility and smoothness
- Make believable settlements in the open world, make them and the hubs feel alive with OPEN BUILDINGS, minigames, hangout spots, remove the philosophy of closing doors to every location.
- Make the open world feel more dangerous and rewarding, encouraging grouping up while questing
- Introduce more job identity, flavor skills that work in the open world and in dungeons / raids or are there just for visual flavor
- Innovation of your quests. Introduce minigames, more archery? gunnery? shooting a ball through a hoop? A footrace against npc's with similar mechanics as chocobo racing? Dance games? Timing games? Memory games? Guess which coconut the ball is under? Swimming contest, jump puzzles, anything.
- More focus on exploration and traveling on foot, and not by aetheryte and flying, unless flying receives somekind of extra care. Adventuring takes time, its not a shopping trip.
- More character customization
- Tone down the glam to be more job oriented fantasy, general fantasy and city-state fantasy for a while

Improvements to the game will garner goodwill and also increase cash shop sales. While now in this drought and era of unfulfilled potential people look at your cash shop in a hostile manner. Make people want to support your company by showing them that you are investing money into the game they pay for monthly.

Work on your communication with your fanbase and communicate with roadmaps and future plans instead of keeping us in the dark until the very last moment

[LinaAkayomi]

My absolute hopium wishlist
- Cross DC Party Finder and Duty Finder
- Twice as many glam plates
- Twice as many slots on Friends List/Blacklist (With needed rework(s))
- Job Identity overhaul (Make job choice actually matter, discard the cookie cutter 2 minute meta)
- All races need to have the same love and care (ie, keep fixing the issues with Hrothgar and Viera)
- Instanced housing as an option for FCs and Privates (Think like "FC Apartments") for those who can't win a Lottery

[Supersnow845]

I am once again asking square to fix healers

[TheRealDesastr]

- More alt-friendly QoL, especially removing the lock to story if you've already done the MSQ on main (can give options to skip rather than force it ofc). All shop stuff being account bound
- More mounts/pet rewards, they seem...very lackluster lately.
- Graphics improvements were 'great and all' (I'm neutral on it tbh) but more actual customization would be nice.
- Deep dungeon titles unique per class (ex: The Paradoxal Necromancer for RPR and such)
- A return to fantasy theme and a more coherent story in general. DT had fairly lackluster lore.
- SE actually listening to the community & better communication

[Raikai]

1) In the wake of job reworks in 8.0, unmake the 2min meta. Prior to its dominance, the job design was more interesting.

2) The armor glamour restrictions do not make sense nowadays. You can already look like a BLM wearing heavy armor. Have you seen the Yuweyawata fending set? It looks like caster gear. An actual fending set was designed to not look like an armored unit.

3) Make an over-world more interesting. Give reasons to explore. Random treasures we see in the OC could be out there as well. Put more interesting FATEs rather than the same reskinned ones.

4) Rebalance your release schedule. The first half of the expansion is very lacking of features. I'd ideally move one of the Limited Jobs and the V&C dungeons to the first half on odd patches.

5) Improve the actual questing experience: Dawntrail's poor MSQ just highlighted how bad it is. Yes, it's always been like that, but the story before was so good that we could glance over it before.

[mallleable]

- phys ranged buffs/changes
- add more funk to jobs
- overworld combat system changes
- job action acquisition squish (important job actions/mechanics unlock earlier, and faster)
- cross DC PF
- glamor system update
- housing system update
- keep introducing us to loveable characters
- keep elaborating on the world
- feed my Ultima brainworms
- something I didn't know I wanted

[Limerence]

- Less robe gearsets for healers/casters. Please.
- Mount rewards from allied society reverted to being the last reward again as motivation to finish allied society quests.
- Make jobs unique and fun again
- More housing item limits inside and outside
- More glamour dresser space / plates
- More "fantasy" glams instead of modern/scifi
- Casual friendly in mind.. (don't lock more hairstyles behind content like chaotic)
- Better/Fluffy tail options for miqo'te instead of the + tail we have now...
- More options in character creation - more face paints, better lip colours, hair colours, more facial/other features?
- Less capes :x

[yesnt]

- Actual gameplay

[ChrysOCE]

[B]
- Better/Fluffy tail options for miqo'te instead of the + tail we have now...

100% this. Graphic update done and that is still the fluffy tail option???

- New Gold Saucer activities
- Everything everyone else has already mentioned, really