Part 9:
What else is there? The technical aspect of the game. A Realm Reborn released 2013.
We are still getting excuses how they cant do things and are held back by the Spaghetti code that was 1.0. The simple answer is, I am tired of hearing about that. Its been over 10 years. It is something that should have been resolved years ago. Graphic update, Duty Support with Trusts all way less important. Why do we have so many complicated systems for Storage? Every shitty F2P MMO lets you buy additional Storage space. FF14 only increased it when they removed Belts.
And then made it more complex by adding it behind other things like Retainers and Chocobo Saddlebag. Or in Armoires that can only be accessed from certain locations. Just simplify it all for heavens sake. Glamour is also a disaster of a system. Just make a system where when we unlock something it gets noted down and we can always just click on it and make it look like that item. There are so many solutions in other games already. It is also criminal how frail some systems are like the friend-list or the market board. One click too fast and it cant load anything.
The net-code is a disaster as well. FF14 Mobile runs so much better its insane. And yes I get it that game was build up with new tech. But FF14 should honestly have had a Dev-team that worked behind the scenes outside of the patch cycle to fix all these problems on an isolated server and only after serious testing have put it on the live servers. Yes that costs money, yes that takes time. But it could have been done. Square Enix is not a broke or small company. Still using the excuse that the game is old and they cant help it does not fly anymore. Fix your game. The sooner you do, the less problems you have in the future. Other option is to make the decision to stop supporting FF14 and working on FF14-2. Build it from the ground up. Remove all the problems we have in the game now. Maybe include actual 360 hit detection ( getting sniped out of the sky when you fly over a zone and under you outside the loading zone was an S rank AOE will always be funny... but come on....) Could also lead to many new battle ideas. But the game desperately needs updating. Many Systems just need a full overhaul.