My thoughts on FF14

[Hobo]

I played FF14 from the first day and quit about Nov. I've been lurking around looking for changes and there are some I like but I'd like to share some of my views about what I feel FF14 is lacking.

Starting with the obvious:

1) Auction House
2) Chocobos
3) Mailbox
4) Worthless currency

1. I know the AH in ff11 wasn't the best but compared to what I have to go through now to find an item I want... it is very frustrating. In the initial weeks with a decent population it was still hard to find an item you wanted... the dev team needs to think of ease of use when dealing with certain aspects of the game. If this game was meant for the casual player... why does it make me go to the Ul'Dah market wards every time i need to go on a shopping trip? If you want to make this more casual friendly this is a possible solution: Keep the wards and make them more crafter material/raw material driven. Make an Auction House where you can only post finished items. Make it possible to remotely send materials for sale to your retainers bazaar. and pick up items from them. (basically you wouldn't be forced to go into the wards you could access it remotely) This will enable to the casual player who say only wants to engage in combat to do the following: Go to town... remotely give useless items to a single or multiple retainers. He can then have these retainer(s) store or bazaar the items remotely. Now that he has dumped off his "trash" he wants to purchase new items... he can simply go to the nearest global auction house and purchase said items.

2. Chocobos. We need them asap. Give us something to remember we are playing a FF game here.

3. Mailbox. While we don't realllly need one if this game is meant to be more "casual" driven I don't see why they wouldn't want to add this functionality

4. The currency in ff14 is worthless. This is an issue because people who want to say focus mainly on crafting are given the shaft in a sense. This game needs a major gilsink... say a 10M gil token you have to buy from a NPC to pop a HNM for starters.

Also...

We need things that draw players to work together... like skillchains... level cap type zones... etc.

I'd also like to see something along the lines of advance class quests. Say to unlock the Paladin job you have to get Shield, Con, and Glad to 30 and it would unlock a Paladin quest. You could come up with 2 tiers of classes... basic and advanced. each advanced class would be a combo of 3 basics classes... just some ideas what ya guys think...?

I know when it comes to programming you basically guess how many hours something will take and what it's priority is... What do you guys feel is the top 3 priority items for SE? Do their have their priorities in the right order? I'd debate they need to fix the mechanics of the game more before they start adding new content.

[gifthorse]

Great, another egocentric thread that claims to have all the answers, veiled in a wall-of-text for our viewing pleasure. Newsflash, the world doesn't revolve around you. Next time, consider adding your so-called "suggestions" to the appropriate threads instead of adding one more to the already overwhelmingly redundant stockpile.

[Cairdeas]

The only thing I agree with you on is nothing.

We need chocobos, But I'd rather they take their time and implement them and a raising system right.

Rightnow mailboxes would only help sending stuff between your own characters and RMT.

also its not a Auction House unless there is bidding if all you want is time and convenience they can be implemented without bidding or an auction house to the current system.

[Wolfie]

Great, another egocentric thread that claims to have all the answers, veiled in a wall-of-text for our viewing pleasure. Newsflash, the world doesn't revolve around you. Next time, consider adding your so-called "suggestions" in the appropriate threads instead of adding one more to the already overwhelmingly redundant stockpile.

This post is about as intelligent as a sack of potatoes.

[gifthorse]

This post is about as intelligent as a sack of potatoes.

Speak for yourself.

[Hobo]

The only thing I agree with you on is nothing.

We need chocobos, But I'd rather they take their time and implement them and a raising system right.

Rightnow mailboxes would only help sending stuff between your own characters and RMT.

also its not a Auction House unless there is bidding if all you want is time and convenience they can be implemented without bidding or an auction house to the current system.

Instead of an auction house have a NPC that you can interact with from a central part of the town that will remotely shop the wards for you for a fee. I only want mailbox in the sense that when you buy an item from a proposed "auction house" you could turn 3 feet and instantly get the item. Having to do more than 15 minutes of work to find an item you're looking for is not very casual and I thought that was the aim of ff14.

[gifthorse]

Instead of an auction house have a NPC that you can interact with from a central part of the town that will remotely shop the wards for you for a fee. I only want mailbox in the sense that when you buy an item from a proposed "auction house" you could turn 3 feet and instantly get the item. Having to do more than 15 minutes of work to find an item you're looking for is not very casual and I thought that was the aim of ff14.

I'm pretty sure it only takes like one minute to buy an item.

[Cairdeas]

Instead of an auction house have a NPC that you can interact with from a central part of the town that will remotely shop the wards for you for a fee. I only want mailbox in the sense that when you buy an item from a proposed "auction house" you could turn 3 feet and instantly get the item. Having to do more than 15 minutes of work to find an item you're looking for is not very casual and I thought that was the aim of ff14.

It takes approximately a minute to buy an item from the wards if you already know what you want.

[Hobo]

It takes approximately a minute to buy an item from the wards if you already know what you want.

I just don't understand what's stopping them from letting you purchase from the point where you can view all retainers listing that item and price. And what's stopping them from moving that feature to a more convenient location? I logged in a few days ago to notice I had to travel to Ul'dah to find anything in the wards since it seemed most of the population moved there.

[gifthorse]

I just don't understand what's stopping them from letting you purchase from the point where you can view all retainers listing that item and price. And what's stopping them from moving that feature to a more convenient location? I logged in a few days ago to notice I had to travel to Ul'dah to find anything in the wards since it seemed most of the population moved there.

It's so they don't have to admit wasting so many hours of work over a feature they will render obsolete with an auction house. And anyway, the market wards are only sparsely populated in other regions because of the low player population. People flock to Uldah because the population is too low to warrant people having their retainers in LL and Grid.

Even if they implemented an auction house, I am quite sure SE wouldn't make it global. Like FFXI, SE would likely keep the auction houses restricted to each city.