What does FFXIV lack?

[Raim]

Open world improvements. Long term combat related goals for casual players. You can easily fix both at the same time.
-Revamp Fates; Update old expansion fates with new mechanics. Let people exchange bicolor gemstones for all the same items as hunt currencies. Make Fates gives more EXP and a chaining bonus.
-If possible create a system like Rift has where you can queue into a group to do Fates
-Every single patch needs to add a bicolor gemstone mount AND a bicolor gemstone glamour set
-Introduce the same system with uncapped tomestones. Every single patch add in a mount and a glamour set that costs like 10-20k tomestones in vouchers. This gives players a reason to keep farming tomestones at all times.
-When capped on weekly tomestones, any excess should be automatically converted into the uncapped tomestone
-Variant dungeon roulette where the NPC picks the path for you
-Once you reach level 100 on a job, you can choose to delevel the job back down to 1. If you level the job a second time (without purchasing a boost for it) it will unlock a special themed glamour or mount for that job.
-No more extreme/savage only content like Chaotic. If you ever do Chaotic again, create a normal version of it too. The only exclusive reward for the harder version should be a title, and more currency to buy its rewards.

[TantalusTroupe]

okay, im going to be that guy. like throwing chum out into shark infested waters

what happened to the cultural advising 7.0 had for a good singular patch from the looks of things

[Zelda206]

Professionalism is a chief thing it's missing now that it had before.
I don't see it when a cheap shot of 'main character syndrome' shows up in a Variant Dungeon dialogue. If anything, it gives the impression the entire staff in charge of writing and signing off on the finished dialogue are all terribly jaded to the point of willfully attacking their subscribers who poke their nose into their newest content due to not liking Dawntrail (as most of this seems to be occurring during the most controversial and irksome expansion of FFXIV to date, with the most irksome faculty being safeguarded and kowtowed to). That's my basic impression; if they wanted to carry an air of professionalism or poise, I would presume attacking the many for the deeds of a few is not something that should come up at all.