Hello fellow gamers,
while we are waiting on beta invites to reach our inbox..hopefully, i thought we could discuss where the game is headed to after launch and after the first expansion, the topic here is about the future, and for people like me who play FF for a long time

now allot of us, if not most, have played FFXI, and thinking back to a time before the release of the first expansion "Rise of Zilart" the game didn't have much to offer (much like the state of XIV 1.0), and its selling point was that it was a FF online game, then the expansions gave depth the the game experience

personally i wouldn't like FFXIV to be a FFXI clone, simply meaning don't give me the valkrum dunes map to level up in... but it doesn't mean completely ignore all aspects of the game, or atleast the thought process that went into it, because at the time there was nothing like it, and ide like to see the same thing in todays FFXIV, originality thats done in a bright way.

content like Sky and Dynamis for example, or Sea, or the aht urghan Mob invasion of the city, i would like to see a less time consuming versions of em in FFXIV, but ofcourse not a copy/pasted version,

we've got a few things to look forward to, like the new F.A.T.E content, and props to the Devs because it looks promising, and the housing system will add to the players imagination about the realm at least,

however its not enough, and im sure Yoshi knows this, but were at the doorsteps of the new game so the devs got allot of time to think out what to do next after the first expansion, i feel the more our imagination is stretched the better,

for example.. you know how we have the 3 main cities, im thinking on the lines of..(dosent have to be exact) about we having 1 more big city for beastmen or which ever foe, where you fight through mobs, and sneak in for main story,or quest, or to make an alliance with a group of em whom you can summon to help you with hard content once in awhile, to buy rare items only sold by NPCs there, some check points and puzzles, but not make it so dependable that we wouldn't hang in our own main cities, maybe thats what Ala mhigo will be like if they build a map for it? i dunno lol

i've read all the documents SE released and the road maps, and we have some good stuff coming our way, like the free roaming Primals ! where if a group beats one they can summon it for assistance anytime they need for a limited period <-(i assume)

what do you guys think regarding content in the future, do you like everything thats been released by SE in regards to that? or do you feel somethings are missing?

for me i think they are going the right direction, but just need a bit of originality to outlast the other MMOs in the market ^^