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[*]Tutorialisation and discovery of content: There has been 0 innovation in this category. The vast majority of features of this game are obtuse to get into and not explained well to players. Everything is gated behind "+" quests that give no indication of what they unlock. Someone who doesn't have friends explaining them things can very easily miss entire chunks of the game without realising they exist.[*]Information QOL: Finding what any item does is a chore. Item tooltips are not very useful. A ton of information is locked behind hard to navigate UIs, and some of the information is just not there. This extends to so many details that it's hard to point at a specific thing but just the entire experience of interacting this game feels like a lot of it was made in pre-wow times, despite this game being much more recent than wow. Even navigating the map is a weirdly clunky mess.[/LIST]
Would like to add to this. So this is a personal gripe but I know for a fact that there is a massive community online for completionist collections. There is just something that tickles the brain just right to see a list all filled out.
FFXIV truly is handles like a SP game with hidden, super hard to get achievements. Let me (sorry for bringing it up so much but it just is the best point of reference) compare to WoW:

- Mounts, pets and glam pieces have each their own library IN THE GAME with exact location of drop/vendor.
- complete library that shows you not only the items you own but also all other available ones.
- literal inbuilt glam planning menu. even if you do not own pieces you can play dress-up and plan farming gear around that. you even get to save the preset for later. This was originally a fan driven project as an add-on that blizz incorporated into the game due to its insane popularity.

This is on top of the way they handle glamour. You can only glam at the specific NPCs for it like at the dresser here in FFXIV, but the planning and access to your library of stuff is always accessible via a menu. Not only that, you no longer even need to keep the items. Once obtained and bound to your character it is available to all characters you have on your entire account. No trying to manage dresser space. Found it once, have it forever. Across all armor types, similar to how we will have in 7.4.

I do admittedly really like the glam plate system but WoW has kind of copied that as well now, so that really leaves to question what exactly is holding SE back from taking the positives from their competition.


Other than that yeah, there are probably a ton of technical issues, but I would wager they have also been lying about a lot in the past to shut people up. Who is going to stop them? If they go back on their word and give us something we have been asking regardless of it being 'impossible' people will not look a gift horse in the mouth and just cheer.