What features from TERA, would you like to see added to this game?

[saudrapsmann]

While I plan on playing TERA and I think it looks like a great game... If I wanted to list off everything that I wanted to see from TERA in FFXIV I'd basically be listing EVERYTHING and FFXIV would BE TERA in the end, with added adult catgirls and demon women.

So I'm all for keeping TERA and all its pros in TERA and taking more from what made FFXI so great so that FFXIV can have its own identity.

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I think it's right that FFXIV should have its own identity, but why must it be borrowed from FFXI and nowhere else? FFXI had so many faults, and many insist on bringing those with them to FFXIV. I think it's fair to look to other games which are coming out rather than ones which have been released long ago.

TERA is doing some things right and I think the game itself makes a fair case for bringing those over with the amount of popularity it is receiving. You can argue that it will ruin the integrity/identity of FFXIV but, in reality, wouldn't FFXI ruin it just as much.

FFXI is similar to FFXIV, but that isn't exactly reason to make them even more similar.

There is so much xenophobia around here it's hilarious.

[saudrapsmann]

I think it's right that FFXIV should have its own identity, but why must it be borrowed from FFXI and nowhere else? FFXI had so many faults, and many insist on bringing those with them to FFXIV. I think it's fair to look to other games which are coming out rather than ones which have been released long ago.

TERA is doing some things right and I think the game itself makes a fair case for bringing those over with the amount of popularity it is receiving. You can argue that it will ruin the integrity/identity of FFXIV but, in reality, wouldn't FFXI ruin it just as much.

FFXI is similar to FFXIV, but that isn't exactly reason to make them even more similar.

There is so much xenophobia around here it's hilarious.

Because in a lot of ways TERA started from scratch into a different game entirely. I'd want FFXIV to borrow from FFXI so that Square Enix can use what they learned personally from experience for what worked and what didn't.

TERA has mounts, flying mounts, action-based combat system, large amount of varied zones, a much greater amount of character creator options, grinding that doesn't feel like grinding and doesn't take months to hit the level cap, fun PvP from the get-go, raids, etc. It is all around in my opinion a much better game, and if FFXIV recovers and wants to compete when it relaunches then I don't want it to borrow from TERA.

Instead I want it to find its own things that work really well within the Final Fantasy series or by trying new things. Such things include player housing which I don't know if TERA has, chocobos airships and moogles which FFXIV lacks and are a staple for the FF series, and tweaks rather than an overhaul to the combat system. I feel like there's nothing to borrow from TERA that wouldn't just be taking from what makes TERA unique and we'd end up with a "TERA clone" that still doesn't have its own identity.

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Hmmm, I think it's true that the basis of the games are different. TERA isn't about grind for reward, whereas FFXIV is. However, despite that difference, FFXIV can still take over some of the fundamental concepts behind TERA when implementing new ideas.

One of the things talked about with FFXIV is the combat system. Yoshi intends to alter that and it might be a good time to look at what TERA did. TERA's philosophy was to keep the players focussed on the center of the screen, rather than at health bars, stamina bars, etc., all the things which one usually looks at when fighting rather than the actual fight. So it was in that way that they created a more frenetic type battle. I don't want FFXIV to lose its character, but I just hope they step away from the menu-esque micromanaging type system.

I know they won't, but it was simply a hope of mine. And im sure nobody else wants it so Ill leave it at that.

Anyway, another thing SE has mentioned introducing are player/public companies. TERA has a political system and I think giving players in FFXIV something akin to this might be an interesting addition and an ultimate goal for the biggest and most organised companies.

Earlier I talked about fundamental concepts. The battle system in TERA is based around a more isntinctive as opposed to micromanaging/mathematical system. THe political system seeks to give players some freedom/power. And those are concepts which FFXIV can bring over without harming their sacred identity.