Critical issues that need to be addressed

[RedLolly]

The syncing skill issue mostly boils down to the original capstone being 50 and thus makes our skill sets very back heavy to higher levels.

The mobile version (eek) actually has level 50 Black Mages using Leylines and level 50 Warriors using Fell Cleave. The trade off is way fewer skills in general in favor of the best feeling and most unique ones much earlier.

I don't really know what's better.

[Awful]

I agree with most of this the only thing I don't agree with is giving us everything while we're leveling, I think it's absurd Dragoon has to wait til what lvl 40 to get an Aoe? Where casters and ranged and some melee get theirs earlier is kinda weird, Dragoon literally has 1-2-3 until lvl 40 it's a very stale experience. But giving us everything would make traits even more boring to acquire as they just pop up and change slightly. Same as Nin they get Death Blossom at lvl 38 why?

The other big thing that bugs me is the gear outside of prog Pie/Ten is wasted, SKS/SPS for thresholds or just for BLM and all you want is Crit/Det/DH on everything and it's been this way for years now, we also can't see what our crit % is or how much Det adds in terms of dmg + etc, something that wasn't mentioned is to rehaul the UI because in 2025 this is just crazy we can't see the numbers and how our gear actually impacts us.

Glamour and housing are both in a terrible spot too people have been begging for a glamour system that saves appearances like how WoWs transmog is which would alleviate all the issues. Staying subbed for a house just also feels terrible if you're not doing anything in game but logging in once a month to save your house is not a good feeling and hasn't been for years.

The rest I agree with though.

[Silren]

I feel you OP, started this game in ancient times (2014), I saw many friends and people leaving the game or just get bored, myself included. Though I still resub once or twice a year I simple can't see myself playing this game regularly again. All your points are true but honestly I think they should change so many things to make it enjoyable again these days for all of us old arse veterans that I doubt they will do anything at all. 8.0? Probably just some kind of classes refresh presented as the "new incredible change", yet even if it turns to be true we will get the same boring and predictable content which after one or two runs you'll pretty much drop. Housing? Destroying your players creations was always a stupid idea in my opinion, played a lot of mmos and even the most trash ones had better housing system than this one, on the technical and system design aspects side of course. Still I hope that they will make this game more fun to play in the future, tho I hope it since 2018 so I don't expect much at this point, perhaps they will surprise us with the new expansion who knows, time will tell.

[MuraBoy]

Net code, server infrastructure, remove input delay on skills, etc.

It's unacceptable that this game still has a server tick rate of 3.3 Hz (0.3 seconds) while even WOW, an MMO from 2004, has 20 Hz (0.05 secs).

[RedLolly]

Net code, server infrastructure, remove input delay on skills, etc.

It's unacceptable that this game still has a server tick rate of 3.3 Hz (0.3 seconds) while even WOW, an MMO from 2004, has 20 Hz (0.05 secs).

If I had to pick a single upgrade from everything we suggest, it'd be this.