What is FFXIV lacking?

[Cairdeas]

I have to agree, Theres a lot of scenery enhancements that need to happen.

Some things I'd suggest.

Limsa Lominsa: Limsa is a sea side grassland on top of rocks. The only way for the grass to populate would be airborne seeds. So there should be plants that look like they are distributing seeds. The air should be filled with a slight pollinated haze Nothing drastic just a subtle bits of pollen and airborne seeds floating about here and there.

Any place where the Sea hits rocks it should crash not "wave about gently" It would only be gentle if it was a lake not the wide ocean.

Definitely add things like whales and large fish floating about when on the boat as well as have the water crash more against the side of the boat.

Ul'dah: lots of things like Vultures, small insects and lizards that fitter about everywhere. Temperate Visual Occurrences. Heat Haze etc.


Gridania: Burn it to the ground and start over.

[Augury]

A few things... Simple things though, because the game is for the most part REALLY good (or what I've played of it anyways)
-Compatability with chipsets and smaller videocards
-Sentinels
-Comprehensive mechanics for each discipline instead of the large amounts of overlap
-As always... Chocobos... don't show them off to us if we can't have 'em
-Moogle and Goblin pets would be awesome?

What the game doesn't need:
-Raid Gear
-Higher Level Caps
-Anything level or rank intensive
-More races
-More racial benefits
-Anything which takes away from a player based economy

[Marek]

What FF14 needs is more to do for all the lvl 50 players there is now ,like more NMs and more NMs. Getting tired of the same drops week after week.They should have done this to keep core players interested and excited about new weapon parts and item drops for crafters. At the same time getting more great group battle exitement. Hope this happens in next patch. Still love the game but tired of leveling more characters ,not having retainer space for that and not having enough for main class to do. And by the way I think the graphics are awesome, better than any I have seen on any game but agree that there could be more "true life depth" such as NMs appearing from the sky or out of the ground instead of just being there all of a sudden. STILL HAVE FAITH FOR BETTER THINGS TO COME!!

[Hitoriki]

LOL what is it NOT lacking?

A little hyperbole, yes, but still..

[Sinzfeldt]

Funnily enough it's missing most of the things that make a Final Fantasy game.

[viion]

I agree. To be honest they had it in mind but I think struggles with other things must have forethought this?

Anyway, the biggest thing is lacks for me is Something To Do. Imo right now there is nothing, I log in and there's nothing I can go do. (I'm not interested in making numbers bigger).

[Alyssasidhe]

I actually see a lot of potential in the game. The only thing that upsets me is the lack of purpose and direction. There is the sense of foreboding and foreshadowing, like something dark and dangerous is on the horizon, but as of yet there seems to be no real idea as to what is going to happen or where the game is going. It feels like time is frozen. That's the only thing I find annoying.

[gifthorse]

Of course, FFXIV has its issues with core mechanics such as the UI, battle system and class system... but the biggest thing to me is that this game lacks atmosphere. I'm sure a few of you will have seen this video before, but the feeling you get watching it reminds you of the amazing things FFXI had that gave the world LIFE.

This game lacks life, and I would sacrifice the HD graphics in a heartbeat to get the art that is found in FFXI.

Give this video a look:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iesY1...layer_embedded

FFXIV lacks a lot of stuff, and FFXI had nice atmosphere, but one thing to realise is that 90% of that video is just a character standing in front of a moving background. If they want to give us 'atmosphere' they should maybe take some cues and ideas from the good thread we have on this forum, and not from FFXI. (Sorry to say).

I think watching a video like that kind of brings out the nostalgia, but maybe not the true memories. A lot of FFXI was mining just to get gil, and camping NM spawns just to get gil, or gear. And even the airship and boat rides became tedious after the third time. Eventually, you didn't feel like waiting around for 15 minutes doing nothing.

Anyways, I could make a better video than that from just the stuff in FFXIV and set it to one of the myriad of amazing songs from the FFXIV soundtrack, and I might actually do it one day.

[Kazimir]

FFXIV lacks a lot of stuff, and FFXI had nice atmosphere, but one thing to realise is that 90% of that video is just a character standing in front of a moving background. If they want to give us 'atmosphere' they should maybe take some cues and ideas from the good thread we have on this forum, and not from FFXI. (Sorry to say).

Looking at the scenery in XI is just an example of how things should be done in XIV.

Anyways, I could make a better video than that from just the stuff in FFXIV and set it to one of the myriad of amazing songs from the FFXIV soundtrack, and I might actually do it one day.

I highly doubt that. I've traveled all around XIV and you probably wouldn't be able to make more than a 2 minute video of the type of scenery shown in that video.

[Kibo]

Oh they got the water textures in the XI boat ride instance thingie right? See, that's why it looks like its moving where the XIV boat does not.