Apparently the devs did look into that at some point but were unable to implement the feature (or something similar) but was unable to due to memory limitations. I don’t know the exact source but I believe it came from a live letter a number of years ago.
@@Author_Gamer I do vaguely recall this as well. It is cool that Yoshi-P has been transparent about having looked into these things. It seem like in the past couple of years specifically there have been a lot of technical limitations that have come to light, and I always wonder if that's based in legacy code from the OG 1.0. Since they are planning on roadmapping the game for the next 10 years, let's hope they can root these things out and bring us these features soon!
For housing they essentially just need to add the ESO housing system on top of what we have now. Let us be able to buy houses all over the world, and let us be able to have them all at once. I'd kill for a house at Amourot in the final Shadowbringers zone.
HATS! After playing Hroth for 3 years, I'm over it... How have people doing "illegal" things gotten this done when the developers haven't?! I'd go back instantly if they even put out a timeline of them getting this done.
Replace retainers by a unified bank system, with a crafting materials storage. The basic free version would let you store 999 999 999 gils, 99 item slots, and ×99 of each crafting material. Instead of paying extra retainers, you would pay for increasing the caps. Up to 9 upgrades. Each adding to the caps. +1 000 000 000 gils, +100 item slots, and +100 of each crafting material. Maximum possible would be 9 999 999 999 gils, 999 item slots, and ×999 of each crafting materials.
Keeping 9 retainers is still usefull, i send mine to get some materials as well, but a single menu to manage everything directly would clearly be a good option. Afaik, they looked into it too and... i probably won't change anytime. Guess we'll have to rely on mods on a lot of things :s@@vukkulvar9769
Let me discard, meld, extract, repair, equip, etc. my items while talking to a vendor or a retainer. It's not the worst problem in FFXIV but it's really annoying and no other MMO has this.
I have 3 things i want to see 1. An ingame way to take your main's hotbar and move it to alts or have an option to copy from another character at any time ingame or in main menu. 2. I want a way to clear the chat from a menu or something, also if you have reported an account i want it to remove the messages sent in say chat. pointing at RMT bots in limsa. 3. make it easier to report bot characters whether they are in a wall or something, also can a gm look under the map in limsa on most servers, there is a bunch of bots down there.
Fantastic video man, I remember your rants on the "friends list" on your streams I was 1000% expecting that here HAHAHA, good stuff dude, solid video 👏
I will never stop complaining about the friends list, holy shit fix it, please. Thanks bro!!! I worked really f'n hard on this, at least 10,000 mudras worth!
I think the reason why they don't want you off loading items to alts is because they want you to buy retainers which is scummy. Back around stormblood there was a way to send friend requests to alts but they removed it since then.
It requires quite some trust and additional work, but if your alts are in the same FC, then you can just use the FC chest to exchange items between your characters. It's not impossible to do, so there's no real argument to not off-load items to your alts. They could even tie it to a certain amount of days subbed if botting is at all an argument in this context.
The transmog system would seriously reduce the gear bloat in our retainers, armour, glam dresser etc. Because Once you've obtained something it could be saved and that way you don't have to keep the item to sit in your bags to be forgotten about. At least let us keep the rlc glam stuff but put the in-game gear into some kind of collection system where we don't have to hold onto a physical copy of it after we're finished using it for BiS, etc if we don't want too. I have purchased the max retainers I can and each one is full, as is my glam dresser and my saddlebag and personal inventory is now at risk.
Fair list and superb editing, nice vid! Missed these. And yeah, it's daunting to see the state of the friends list. Removing someone? Reload. Inviting someone to party? Reload. Casually staring at it? Reload... Holy shit... Also, not being able to see who's online if on another server is ridiculous.
I feel like everything on the online shop should be account wide. I've bought a couple of things. But holy moly I would buy so much more if it was just account wide.
Slightly disagree on the housing. On oceanic, when they unrestricted the wards from FC only to everyone, there became more housing slots than players. The house I own is now in a near-empty ward, and most wards are the 10% filled at best. If they could somehow dynamically add wards, like when all wards are 80% occupied they unlock another, then that would be fine, but adding excessive wards can defeat the point of having wards at all. For instanced housing, do you think an expanded apartment system would do? Currently apartment are tiny. If you could buy a mansion sized one, would that be sufficient? I remember mention they were looking into customizable housing sizes (so plot wouldn't determine interior size). If that happens, maybe it will apply to apartments too. Now that Cross-Datacenter is a thing, I hope they'll merge the Market Boards for each data-center. Again Oceanic. The likes of Zurvan and Bismark, their market boards are so sad. It must be such a turn-off making a character, to find you're on a dead world and the only way to buy anything is to world-travel (if they even know to). Please, please please, an option to disable confirmation windows. Yes I wish to interact with or purchase the thing I clicked on. Yes I want to unlock the dungeon door. Yes I know my job doesn't currently match the gear I'm wanting to purchase. No refunds, I get it. Please just stop giving me RSI when trying to spend my nuts.
there were more housing slots than players because no one plays in OC compared to the other servers. In every other NA, EU, JP DC its literally the other way around, FC wards are dead because people only want mediums and larges and all personal housing are full forever :)
friends list needs to change, i've removed so many, but i know of a ton who haven't removed me, cause they can "track" me. old drama, etc etc, but yeah good vid overall!
Yeah, this was a big reason why it needs to be 2-way. I've had many friends getting straight up STALKED, so before you add quick join friend's parties, please REMOVE anyone not on your list and especially if you've blacklisted them!
4:31 Again, having permanently unlocked paint is prevented by the existence of the Online Store's purchasable paint. I agree the transmog and GW2 customization needs to be added though.
@@arohk4415 While the idea has merit, it's more complicated than it needs to be, and would just be a band-aid to something that was intentionally designed. We also know from other games doing the same band-aid style fixes that it always leads to a bad overall player experience. All dyes should either be one time purchases, like GW2, or not at all. This suggested change would also change the in-game economy, from both PCs and NPCs, as well as remove a bunch of crafting recipies, which affect both crafters and gatherers
@@OathOblivio I would also be satisfied if dyes weren't an item anymore, so i could just buy a few hundred of each and have them stored in some extra tab instead of filling up inventory space.
@@arohk4415 That would honestly be the ideal case, and 100% agree with that idea. But again, the realist in me can only see the cash shop blocking this from happening. But who knows, Yoshi-P technically can override the current cash shop situation should he have a good reason to
I don't even want to completely skip to end game when I create an alt, I would just love to be able to choose which expansion to start from, maybe be allowed to choose one or two classes to have at that expansion's level. But I would absolutely love having glamour and mounts be account-wide. I think the "learn a dye and then have it forever" would have to adjust how difficult or random it would be to get a specific dye. Maybe have them all in a set few shops that require poetics (or current tomestones for new dyes.) But I hated how random getting dye was in GW2.
Great video Todd!! Lots of people talk about the gameplay aspects, which you covered, but you gave some much needed attention to the atmospheric and community stuff, which a lot of us would agree could use some TLC.
Definitely, the lesser known stuff, the quality of life changes, the features that could truly tie our communities together more, i want it to feel more like an MMO!
12:39 Look ma! I'm famous!!! good vid. We really do need a better friend's list, not only does it take forever to load, it also updates to show who's online slowly.
Also, let me use whatever is in my retainer's inventory when crafting Going to craft for an item, then having to go find your retainer and take whatever they had in their inventory, before resuming is unnecessary tedious
Setting up my armchair and popcorn for the "you're just a tryhard stop ruining the game for casuals" comments. You put in a lot of effort to source visuals for this video and your explanations are really good! I agree, there's a lot that can be done. So much of this game screams early 2000s MMO. I think SE is aware of these things overall, but its comes down to prioritization. Hopefully the team working on the graphic update can shift to these things once that is done, or maybe they'll surprise us and they're already working on these things!
Our whole UI is a RELIC, we should be grinding tomestones to upgrade it! We need to modernize a lot of systems and menus in FFXIV, it would make things so much better
I haven't played ffxiv nearly as much as a lot of you but this is a great video, lots of good ideas / points :> I would LOVE to see xiv bring wow's transmog system over, it would be such a massive quality of life update for the game 💙
The friends list in particular has always been perplexing to me. I'm surprised it hasn't changed in the lifetime of the game. definitely one of the more antiquated features that has been solved elsewhere. The wow example is really good one.
Already announced for Eureka/Bozja like apparently. Criterion dungeons is a good idea that needs to be improved. Some content for people who can't gather 8 reliable people into a roster would be a plus imo.
I know it'll never happen, but I wish FF14 had more open world content similar to GW2. If the fate system was more dynamic and had chaining stories moving across the map it'd be a good start.
I've had this discussion, that REALLY sought after piece that makes gear interesting. It may be hard to balance with FFXIV, but I love that feeling when you get some OP
@@llamatoddtv a great example, is the eureka armor, SUCH an amazing armor set. But hope eventually some cool WOW style armor gets added. I know 6.20 added some of those amazing ones with cool effects to them, so it's a start!
PvP Rank needs to be Account Wide. So tired of facing off against players who hit Crystal who then created a new character to gatekeep the higher tiers. It's happening far more often than people want to admit. There are peeps in the pvp discords who openly talk about it from time to time. I'm by no means a terrible PvPer, but after 3days into the season/series w/e they call it, it's already too late to even attempt to climb because those players are already plaguing the lower ranks. This isn't a XIV problem alone but would be nice to see alleviated by making Ranks be account wide.
The datacenter things there is a reason it is limited...the ONLY thing that transfers is your player charater. To transfer everything your basicslly doing a world transfer. The only way its possible is if thry get rid of DCs and sync all DCs as one giant DC. Which i question is even possible without a full re work of all thr networking code and infrastructure.
Truly hoping Cloud based DC gives us an open window for more flexibility on this functionality, seems they are eager to test new things so we're heading in the right direction!
The social features need a complete rework I agree, I would love to see EXs able to be tuned harder later in the expansion too. A lot of great suggestions here Todd!.
Someone get this to the devs. The Viera and Hroth hats thing really confuses me. In the interim, why not just enable hats on them? If the ears clipping don't look good, people won't wear them. They want their characters to look good so some decent options is way better than none. I completely agree on the gear rewards changes and the difficulty range on content being expanded. I feel like they almost want to, but I have a feeling they are going to be too scared to take any big steps. Tomestone wise, I'd rather see the price of gear go down than the cap go up. If the cap increases that's just way more weekly farming work. Either way would still be better. They have 20 jobs with a cap that's been around since there were almost half that many.
I had to take a break part way through the video, around the point where you were talking about the butt sliders. But after that I watched the rest of the video with a clear head and it was great, keep up the good work!
Some stuff I do agree with, but I wouldn't say this is what Dawntrail needs to be a "Massive Success" most of these are just quality of life improvements than core gameplay elements to bring success to the game.
I coulda sworn during fanfest or a QnA, yoshi p announced they were adding a standardize look to viera ans hroth, so theu can give them more hats easier
honestly i wish they'd just update unreal in the sense of like... make a backlog of unreals accessible at all times and put them at the highest level for people who want to do that. the reward system they have is fine considering it's for cosmetics and they're not too hard at all and a fun place to be able to practice alt jobs at the highest level. also i really agree with the alli raid giving ilvl relevant gear and it could be helpful for ult prog.
I would like the hair styles to be unlocked and available between races and genders. They have so many available for everyone already, and I want boy bun hair on my elezen. Excellent video! Keep up the good work!
Really good points on all of the social feature issues in the game - they've been carried by discord for too long but that shouldn't be an excuse for things that sometimes don't work outright. I would love to be able to snipe friends' queues, no hassle required for pinging people or being pinged, just the occurrence of being online at the same time leading to playing with each other without organizing it
We need that mmo feeling back and interconnectedness, some people don't bother with discord, social media, so it'd be really cool to have ways to sync up with friends that are running content, it's a must have!
@@llamatoddtv Then maybe YoshiP's point of getting people to talk in savage and harder content will add that MMO feeling - because standing around a marker or someone posting a macro in PF? That to me has made me lose that MMO feeling much more than a friend's list.
I really liked the point about the chat and linkshells being available in the startup client. FF14 has put so much focus on the single player experience. I've played this game since the PS3 beta and I feel like I rarely have the opportunity to really meet and get to know people because of how restrictive the social features are. With DC travel you would think it would help people socialize more but I almost feel like its had the opposite effect because while you can travel cross DC, so many features don't work while you're off your home server
Im hoping for friend list update but its probably easier said than done. i cant imagine a friend list update without major system overhaul or something.
Excellent video, no doom and gloom / drama, straight to the point, objective and clear. Proper feedback :) Hope CBU3 sees it and takes it in consideration these ideas. Cheers
Nice easter eggs on those DPS/TANK training excercises :D Also the "most difficult" content that i have bothered to even clear synched is GOLBEZ EX, since i mainly play PVP
Great compilation of ffxiv players sufferings, let's puff some Hopium wishing YoshiP sees this while waiting for Dawntrail to arrive 😂..... jokes aside having a raid learning mechanic in sea stone sky training is an amazing idea, this needs to be in 14 more than anything else. How epic it could be if we can grind practice Savage /Ultimate mechanics on our own before attempting it with a static or in pf.
Dude, your ideas here are spot on. Got me excited to want them, but now I'm coming back down as I know anything SE does will be half-assed and still missing "that thing that would really make it good" from every feature they implement....
As much as we would like it, and this is from someone who has a lot of alts, FFXIV won't do any of the account wide features mentioned here as they've always been focused on the one alt can do everything mentality. Which is crazy when you consider that you can create up to 160 separate alts on a single account. The alt limit is 40 per data center not 40 per account and there are 4 of those centers. Meanwhile there are games with a much smaller alt limit that have more account wide features.
I don't know if I would do mythic style WoW progression, but I do think they need something above savage. I'm saying this as someone who got kind of bored with savages and felt they were over-hyped regarding difficulty having come from WoW. M+ is very dynamic and savage just is not. I don't think they should steal affixes, but maybe do something with boss mechanics to achieve this. What would I add? Viera hats. I want all houses in the game to have bigger yards to show off more items and the option to have no fences to obscure said items. I like instanced neighborhoods (LOTRO had them as well), but they are only good if the devs are willing to add more. I liked my Wildstar instanced housing, but not as much. They should not make "FC only" neighborhood servers - all FC's should get a med or large plot and they should be in a neighborhood with solo buyers so it makes them feel more lively. By limiting FC's to larger plots, it opens individual players to the sm/med plots as well. As for friend's lists etc? Eh. But I'll add said I said elsewhere that PF doesn't make me feel like I'm playing an MMO. Nobody wants to talk with others at all or be social. They want to post a macro or stand around a marker. If someone screws up while learning do they stop and talk about it? Rarely. They typically just pull again hoping it will work itself out. Ugh.
I'm mainly a classic player so my experience comes from the wrath affixes, and I think I agree that affixes might not work. It was cool for the first week or so, but once people figured out the affix it just became the same grind just more effort. I'm hoping with Yoshi-Ps discussion of adding new and interesting mechanics, they can find some ways to keep us on our toes. The dance style fights in this game are fun, but once you have the muscle memory for them its boring. FF14's PF feels more intimidating to me than the classic wow pugs I used to run/join. Like you said, no one talks, and if you mess up you get kicked or blacklisted. It can be a very scary environment and I think the the repetitive nature of the fights leads to this kind of culture. Having more dynamic fights would be nice, but then it would mess with our previous 2 minute meta soo.... ahaha....
I’d rather them continue with the graphics update first. Housing isn’t the most important thing atm but in the future certainly. Just putting a house on the island would fix alot of problems with housing
GW2 glam system is pretty much BIS. It's account-wide, and you get 4 dye slots for gemstore outfits. You can also dye the mounts and gliders. IF I WANT FENRIR IN HOT PINK, I SHOULD BE ABLE TO! 🤭
lots of deja vu here, these are all a lot of the exact same things ive kept on a personal list for a long time. hope this gets traction because almost all of it is severely needed
Amazing video! You nailed most of the very important things that the game desperately needs to change. This video should definitely be translated to Japanese and posted on the JP forums for all to see. The game can be so much better than what it currently is, but unfortunately a lot of very useful feedback such as videos like this are lost because of lack of communication and understanding between the different communities and the developers.
Agree on pretty much every front. The social features in this game, especially, are embarrassingly badly implemented for a game of this size. Even before gameplay related things, this game has issues with not being able to find people to play with, which is terrible for an MMO.
I still personally blame the casual players who just stand in limsa all day for lack of midcore and other content, for example the same sort who complained about Explorative Zones Eureka and Bozja really made up for the rest of their expansion. I would love to see some adjustments to Warrior, it's definitely overtuned. I don't want it to be Bad, but it shouldn't be the best tank, because it is.
1. Point has been rehashed to death and SE isn't going to bother. The game has the resources to do this, but I believe there is a corporate decision preventing an expansion of housing. 2. They're going to do things about it, but I'm not holding my breath. Right now, they're slapping a band-aid fix onto a problem that was grown out of a community issue ("Hey! Everyone go raid on Light / Aether!") from years ago. 3. True. Account-wide things are nice, but let's be real. If SE ain't making money off of this, they ain't bothering. 4. This game's cosmetic options are so outdated. My old game, Mabinogi, has way more options in customizations and they're getting an engine upgrade soon. A game from the 2000s is beating FFXIV in cosmetics. The only way you keep up in this game right now is with third party tools and... we know where that route goes... Also, don't get me started on portraits. This game is so limited. 5. Midcore content needs to be stressed upon, because Extremes are the only thing bridging the gap and they're so hit-or-miss on a test of skill. Tutorial needs to be updated for every individual job, so you're not relying on third party websites. Horizontal progressing does need to happen, but I disagree with the Alliance Gear = Savage Gear. (Unless a harder mode alliance?)
@@llamatoddtv I don't have a feel for it really, but I get the impression that they have difficulty keeping the old content relevant as mechanics in the game change. If adding new things is arduous because old things need updating then cutting those old things could free up dev time to make more appropriate content. (they are after all only a small indie company!)
I HIGHLY support Island Sanctuary housing. Like even just a small cottage. I think that'd be cute. Kind of a shame that a lot of people can't use the decorations they obtain across the story.
W vid Todd 👏 Love the presentation and editing. All the yes, esp. the account wide unlocks, a better glam system + portraits, butt sliders, in game chat bubbles, in game sims and raid tools, plus more midcore content for those of us who don't have the time investment for Savage / Ultimate prog or the madness of PF reclears. Hoping that Cosmic Exploration has the fun activities also, would help with queue or pf waiting times, or want to wind down. I'm facepalming at how the SE devs are slow af to catch on, or spaghetti code shit, or greed, idk
I would love to see them finally create a "normal" or "story" version of Coils. Such an important part of the story, which most people either don't do, or do unsynced, usually much later than intended. Adding it to the story like they did Crystal Tower, perhaps adding a normal tier to the duty finder, would be great for those that wanna do it legit.
def wish we had account wide stuff too. I switched my alt to my main because it won a house, I had to become an omnicrafter all over again, had to gear up in the savage tier all over again because it wasnt unlocked yet, had to get all my mounts and do tribes all over again.. its been over a year and I still havent done everything I had done on my original main yet. So weird that they arent doing anything about that yet
loving the list, discord has replaced almost all the social features in game for me which is really sad we shouldn't have to leave the game client to do the mmo thing, and absolutely the cross account stuff I don't want to do achievements and mount collection on all my characters (especially if they're there for raid alts)
We could learn a lot from other MMOS that respect our time and love of alts. The social ui is just too dang old, at least fix the chat and friends list, i doubt we'd get anything voice, but man, we could use some better features.
Its super wild to me how much of the social features in an MMO are outsourced. I didn't start raiding till end of Shadowbringers and I was so lost on how to even get gear or what my rotation would be as a SCH. I eventually had a kind soul show me crafted gear because I was struggling to raise my ilvl to do experts, and actually bought me my entire left side crafted set. Without them, I would have been so lost. Because of that I was able to join a static for E9-E12S, and eventually my static told me about the balance. It blew my mind. To this day when I introduce some of my wow friends to FF14 raiding its like... "trust me bro". The game definitely needs a better introduction to ease people from MSQ into end game content. It should be optional! but it also shouldn't be rocket science to get into.
@@llamatoddtv Alt friendliness is so important. SoD didn't get this right in the first two phases and it definitely contributed to my decision to scale back my commitment to that version of WoW.
@@MaakaSakuranbo I disagree with this. It doesn't really cut into their income for people to have alts because with an entry sub for 12.99 you can have 1 char per server. If you want to make more than 1 char per server, you have to pay the standard sub price for 14.99 and you can have 8 characters per server. This mattered more in the sense of alts before cross realm. Now that we have cross-realm and DC, sure it doesn't matter as much, but they are getting their money, whether you play an alt or buy a fantasia. I played for years on an entry sub and I had several characters on multiples DCs. I eventually just bought the standard since I wanted to pay up front, since the 6 month sub price comes out the same with the added benefit of more character slots. I don't think Square enix has a problem with alts, I think its just not the priority since a relatively small percentage of the population needs them.
"instanced housing" won't fix anything, your house is already an instance. Getting rid of wards would maybe free up space for 4-5 houses per ward, then those would get bought up and we'd be right back where we were. They need to fix instead how data is stored and retrieved, since that is the limiting factor for several areas of the game. If they fixed that issue, they could add enough houses to satisfy demand and then some, finally add a glamour log with all gear in it, increase cap and speed of friends list, etc. "instanced housing" is just a buzzword for taking a housing system from another game, that works. Thing is, that won't work unless they completely rebuild housing from the foundation up to support it. We'd still run into issue of limited number of instances the housing servers can save the data for, to retrieve when the player accesses the data.
My wishlist? If you have a house on your main, your alt on the same account should have ownership access to it. Meaning your alt can add/delete/modify furniture ect as if you're on your main.
pretty sure they have said before that the tomestone engame limit is there so that you dont feel obligated to play every day and enjoy things outside the game
The reverse can actually apply to that argument. Having weekly limit makes you feel obligated to cap the tomestone weekly limit by doing roulettes for minimum about 2 days a week if you can't make It to hunt trains, assuming you do every single roulette. Having no limit means players can choose when and what to play to grind tomes. You can actually take a full break a whole week without missing anything. We know the reason for this limit is to keep people playing and subscribe to the game, not so they can touch grass. A good balance is just like llamatodd said in video, everything including tome limit should be unlocked by odd patches.
Numbers of reasons why they won't add most of these 1. 2.0 spaghetti code and servers. For example the glamours part. Yoshi p have confirmed multiple times they can't do something like gw2 or wow transmog because of limitations they have 2. Ffxiv have keep making profit. They made some of the features locked behind paywall lile extra retainers, dyes, 1 character per minions/furniture/etc to make players buy them again and a lot. And this is something yoshi p can't control because it's not his doing 3. They're more focus on making new content than fixing or updating qol. Most of the budget went to making new content so that they can stay on schedule.
Oh don't I know it, I've been wishing for this stuff through every expansion!!! And yeah, they want our money, but it'd be the right thing to do since many other games do this.
Substats need some work imo. Piety could tie into healers damage and healing throughput. But nothing that hasn't been said by you or other high end raiders. Ty for the vid
Seeing this video reminded me of another social feature WoW has, but 14 doesn't. For some weird reason you can't whisper anyone while you're in instanced content. I ended up having to make linkshells in order to do that.
As a new player on xbox and a casual, i feel getting bis gear aint easy , as it requires savage raids , i wish there was a way to get the bis gear without having to enter savage difficulty
Why does this game need multiple worlds split into multiple datacenters? How archaic is the tech they're running? Is it not possible to get 1 DC per region instead of splintering them into multiple DCs and then further into worlds? That crap really needs to be improved.
I'd be curious to see what exaclty is holding them back so we can have may modernized features added in the game. As a whole FFXIV needs a lot of UI revamp. All the in-game social features have atrocious UI and functionality. Most of the time when you interact with the UI there's a confirmation window which can be very annoying. I'd like the devs to find a way to add what NoClippy is fixing during Dawntrail's cycle for gameplay related stuff. The game feels bad when plugins are down after a major patch 😂
Alright. Addressing your wish list as I have knowledge by your list... 1. Devs said instanced housing is never gonna happen. More wards, probably. More locations? More than likely. But never instanced. 2. Data Center Travel was kinda a first step; I do think I've heard that they plan to unify DF/PF across datacenters eventually. Big deal since all raiding PFs effed off to Crystal and all the other NA DC's Party Finders are now dead. 3. I kinda feel like account-wide progression goes against the very nature of FFXIV. I highly doubt it'll ever happen. 4. The glam system kinda has been evolving over time. We already got 5 more glamour plates over the course of Endwalker and the capacity of glam dresser DOUBLED. We (the community) immediately started asking for more and YoshiP told us to chill TF out. 5. Yeah I don't really have much to say here regarding dungeons and raids. I do agree that we need more rewards from dungeons beyond materia and gear, but there's no way (and I strongly disagree with the idea of) making alliance raid gear on par with savage gear. They are extremely different content and the gear from savage gear being better than alliance raids is one of the main incentives for doing it, since BiS gear usually heavily leans on Savage gear. 6. See #2; cross-DC DF/PF seems to be a goal at some point during Dawntrail or the 7.x patch series. While an in-game raid sim would be cool, it seems incredibly unlikely. 7. Yeah the chat window stuff is annoying. It seems to be a holdover from ye olden days of 1.X/ARR plus some backend stuff. 8. CWLS and LS being separate is a holdover from before even cross-world connections were a thing. Maybe someday they'll be folded into each other but IDK 9. I guess we'll have to see what happens with Cosmic Exploration but I will admit I'm hyped for it too. 10. A lot of the friends list issues can be thrown back to items 6 and 8 on my list. Some QoL additions would be amazing, agreed. Lots of good ideas here but also a lot of wishful thinking, honestly. It is kinda worth remembering that a lot of the quirks former/ongoing WoW players dislike in FFXIV are there because the game is developed in Japan and mostly made for a Japanese audience and to Japanese MMO standards/expectations. Us outside Japan kinda gotta just bear with it and poke and prod the devs for what we want/need. Don't forget! The devs said they couldn't implement a damage type indicator, but did so not even a year later!
I'd like to add with the DC the reason it's limited is because your not meant to make it kinda of a home server you need a reason to go back. Else certain servers will just hold servers to capacity where people can't actually join. And maybe the cloud datacenter test might be a solution to many of the points making each region there own cloud DC with 1 or many servers on it. To me that is still far down the line and maybe if it is happening it will be near 8.0 they start to migrate everything since they may want more stress tests done
Oh I wouldn't think they'd implement these things, they are definitely wish upon a star level items that we'd never see added to the game. But i think having cloud based DC's MAY solve a lot of our communication issues with linkshells and friends lists
1. The glamour dresser is the biggest thorn in the eye in terms of cosmetics. Its a middleman that just isn't needed anymore. 2. More midcore *would* be appreciated. Extremes are easily my favorite content in the game. They're nowhere nearly as demanding as Savage Raids but they do require more skill and knowledge than Normal Raids and Trials
I feel like of all the things I would want, none of them are on this list, except for maybe some of the glamour stuff and character creation options. But I think I’m a far more casual player. My wants would be far more basic. Like, more stuff at the Gold Saucer or more zones designed around group content so you could play with your friends to do more stuff together besides your dailies. Things like Eureka or PotD. Unique gear drops from world bosses. You kind of touched on it, but fix housing. Not just instances housing so we don’t need to bid on slots, but more housing options. Let’s get some unique and interesting housing option in there. Also, fix the housing placement UI and options. The current UI is extremely limiting at the best times, and annoying and broken at the worst. I think ESO does a really good job in this area. Though I wish ESO would take some notes from the mounts in FFXIV. This might be controversial, but I’d like to see more character combat customization. They could do it through slotting optional skills or gear sets that have unique traits. Just make it so that every max level player isn’t always farming for the exact same gear for the exact same loadout and having to run the exact same rotation.
@@llamatoddtv I think if I were more tuned into the ecosystem of the game, I’d probably agree with you on your list. But I don’t have a huge friends list. I don’t have any linkshells. I have one character with around 1000 hours (which is more time than I’ve ever clocked in a single game), and don’t plan to do any alts. But there are people in my FC who were endgame players when I started playing, they were still playing when took a break for 6 months to a year between expansions, and they’ve done everything in the game but they’re still there everyday for some reason. These are people who are super tuned into the ecosystem of the game and would probably agree with most of your points.
@weltallelite hey I love hearing others opinions, I'm open to learning what everyone else wants because we all play the game so differently! I appreciate your feedback a ton, even if you don't agree with me!
I have been yelling about getting WoW Transmog system in FF14 for YEARS!!!! Let me unlock and appearance ONCE!!!!!!!!!!!!
SERIOUSLY!!! Collections are amazing!! We need that!
Apparently the devs did look into that at some point but were unable to implement the feature (or something similar) but was unable to due to memory limitations. I don’t know the exact source but I believe it came from a live letter a number of years ago.
But how would they charge you 14.99 twice if you accidentally misplace a store item?
@@Author_Gamer I do vaguely recall this as well. It is cool that Yoshi-P has been transparent about having looked into these things. It seem like in the past couple of years specifically there have been a lot of technical limitations that have come to light, and I always wonder if that's based in legacy code from the OG 1.0. Since they are planning on roadmapping the game for the next 10 years, let's hope they can root these things out and bring us these features soon!
I'd prefer SWTOR's honestly ... You Glamour a slot, it STAYS that way until you change it ... gear upgrades do not need to be re-glamoured.
For housing they essentially just need to add the ESO housing system on top of what we have now. Let us be able to buy houses all over the world, and let us be able to have them all at once.
I'd kill for a house at Amourot in the final Shadowbringers zone.
Hell yeah, amourot would be some prime real estate
I want Fishing Baits and Tackles have their own inventory system.
It's so stupid have to share with my normal inventory space...
Agreed 100%
HATS! After playing Hroth for 3 years, I'm over it... How have people doing "illegal" things gotten this done when the developers haven't?! I'd go back instantly if they even put out a timeline of them getting this done.
bun buns and tiger homies wanna look cute too
real. i recently fantasia'd into a miqo cuz i couldn't stand my Viera being hatless any longer
Replace retainers by a unified bank system, with a crafting materials storage.
The basic free version would let you store 999 999 999 gils, 99 item slots, and ×99 of each crafting material.
Instead of paying extra retainers, you would pay for increasing the caps.
Up to 9 upgrades. Each adding to the caps. +1 000 000 000 gils, +100 item slots, and +100 of each crafting material.
Maximum possible would be 9 999 999 999 gils, 999 item slots, and ×999 of each crafting materials.
Keeping 9 retainers is still usefull, i send mine to get some materials as well, but a single menu to manage everything directly would clearly be a good option. Afaik, they looked into it too and... i probably won't change anytime. Guess we'll have to rely on mods on a lot of things :s@@vukkulvar9769
You couldn't have described the friends list better. The dial up sound its the perfect match lol
Only us boomers know what that sounds even is, lmao
Let me discard, meld, extract, repair, equip, etc. my items while talking to a vendor or a retainer. It's not the worst problem in FFXIV but it's really annoying and no other MMO has this.
I have 3 things i want to see
1. An ingame way to take your main's hotbar and move it to alts or have an option to copy from another character at any time ingame or in main menu.
2. I want a way to clear the chat from a menu or something, also if you have reported an account i want it to remove the messages sent in say chat. pointing at RMT bots in limsa.
3. make it easier to report bot characters whether they are in a wall or something, also can a gm look under the map in limsa on most servers, there is a bunch of bots down there.
The hotbar thing is so real.
Theres currently a plugin for the hotbar thing with alts u can also share it with alt accounts as well not just characters but its just that a plugin
@@Kirianda there is also the, go into folder and copy paste way, its really messy and both are def not TOS
Fantastic video man, I remember your rants on the "friends list" on your streams I was 1000% expecting that here HAHAHA, good stuff dude, solid video 👏
I will never stop complaining about the friends list, holy shit fix it, please. Thanks bro!!! I worked really f'n hard on this, at least 10,000 mudras worth!
I think the reason why they don't want you off loading items to alts is because they want you to buy retainers which is scummy. Back around stormblood there was a way to send friend requests to alts but they removed it since then.
It requires quite some trust and additional work, but if your alts are in the same FC, then you can just use the FC chest to exchange items between your characters. It's not impossible to do, so there's no real argument to not off-load items to your alts. They could even tie it to a certain amount of days subbed if botting is at all an argument in this context.
The transmog system would seriously reduce the gear bloat in our retainers, armour, glam dresser etc. Because Once you've obtained something it could be saved and that way you don't have to keep the item to sit in your bags to be forgotten about. At least let us keep the rlc glam stuff but put the in-game gear into some kind of collection system where we don't have to hold onto a physical copy of it after we're finished using it for BiS, etc if we don't want too. I have purchased the max retainers I can and each one is full, as is my glam dresser and my saddlebag and personal inventory is now at risk.
Fair list and superb editing, nice vid! Missed these.
And yeah, it's daunting to see the state of the friends list. Removing someone? Reload. Inviting someone to party? Reload. Casually staring at it? Reload... Holy shit... Also, not being able to see who's online if on another server is ridiculous.
Thanks man, I've been working hard to learn premiere!
I'd sacrifice a limb or 2 for a district in the Crystarium
I feel like everything on the online shop should be account wide. I've bought a couple of things. But holy moly I would buy so much more if it was just account wide.
Slightly disagree on the housing. On oceanic, when they unrestricted the wards from FC only to everyone, there became more housing slots than players. The house I own is now in a near-empty ward, and most wards are the 10% filled at best.
If they could somehow dynamically add wards, like when all wards are 80% occupied they unlock another, then that would be fine, but adding excessive wards can defeat the point of having wards at all.
For instanced housing, do you think an expanded apartment system would do? Currently apartment are tiny. If you could buy a mansion sized one, would that be sufficient?
I remember mention they were looking into customizable housing sizes (so plot wouldn't determine interior size). If that happens, maybe it will apply to apartments too.
Now that Cross-Datacenter is a thing, I hope they'll merge the Market Boards for each data-center. Again Oceanic. The likes of Zurvan and Bismark, their market boards are so sad. It must be such a turn-off making a character, to find you're on a dead world and the only way to buy anything is to world-travel (if they even know to).
Please, please please, an option to disable confirmation windows. Yes I wish to interact with or purchase the thing I clicked on. Yes I want to unlock the dungeon door. Yes I know my job doesn't currently match the gear I'm wanting to purchase. No refunds, I get it. Please just stop giving me RSI when trying to spend my nuts.
there were more housing slots than players because no one plays in OC compared to the other servers. In every other NA, EU, JP DC its literally the other way around, FC wards are dead because people only want mediums and larges and all personal housing are full forever :)
banger video mr todd
That means a lot coming from you, I have much to learn about youtube!!
Love to see it, this was a brilliant video
friends list needs to change, i've removed so many, but i know of a ton who haven't removed me, cause they can "track" me. old drama, etc etc, but yeah good vid overall!
Yeah, this was a big reason why it needs to be 2-way. I've had many friends getting straight up STALKED, so before you add quick join friend's parties, please REMOVE anyone not on your list and especially if you've blacklisted them!
i love the idea of quick join from friends list! that would be a great feature! great vid todd!
Glad you liked it!
4:31 Again, having permanently unlocked paint is prevented by the existence of the Online Store's purchasable paint. I agree the transmog and GW2 customization needs to be added though.
unlocking the basic dyes would already be helpful, they can keep the rare dyes as they are , the only two worth anything are black and white anyway.
@@arohk4415 While the idea has merit, it's more complicated than it needs to be, and would just be a band-aid to something that was intentionally designed. We also know from other games doing the same band-aid style fixes that it always leads to a bad overall player experience. All dyes should either be one time purchases, like GW2, or not at all. This suggested change would also change the in-game economy, from both PCs and NPCs, as well as remove a bunch of crafting recipies, which affect both crafters and gatherers
@@OathOblivio I would also be satisfied if dyes weren't an item anymore, so i could just buy a few hundred of each and have them stored in some extra tab instead of filling up inventory space.
@@arohk4415 That would honestly be the ideal case, and 100% agree with that idea. But again, the realist in me can only see the cash shop blocking this from happening. But who knows, Yoshi-P technically can override the current cash shop situation should he have a good reason to
I don't even want to completely skip to end game when I create an alt, I would just love to be able to choose which expansion to start from, maybe be allowed to choose one or two classes to have at that expansion's level. But I would absolutely love having glamour and mounts be account-wide. I think the "learn a dye and then have it forever" would have to adjust how difficult or random it would be to get a specific dye. Maybe have them all in a set few shops that require poetics (or current tomestones for new dyes.) But I hated how random getting dye was in GW2.
Great video Todd!! Lots of people talk about the gameplay aspects, which you covered, but you gave some much needed attention to the atmospheric and community stuff, which a lot of us would agree could use some TLC.
Definitely, the lesser known stuff, the quality of life changes, the features that could truly tie our communities together more, i want it to feel more like an MMO!
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Look ma! I'm famous!!!
good vid.
We really do need a better friend's list, not only does it take forever to load, it also updates to show who's online slowly.
all i want is a bag dedicated to gathering mats for professions to free up inv
That would be friggin great addition!
Also, let me use whatever is in my retainer's inventory when crafting
Going to craft for an item, then having to go find your retainer and take whatever they had in their inventory, before resuming is unnecessary tedious
Setting up my armchair and popcorn for the "you're just a tryhard stop ruining the game for casuals" comments.
You put in a lot of effort to source visuals for this video and your explanations are really good! I agree, there's a lot that can be done. So much of this game screams early 2000s MMO. I think SE is aware of these things overall, but its comes down to prioritization. Hopefully the team working on the graphic update can shift to these things once that is done, or maybe they'll surprise us and they're already working on these things!
Our whole UI is a RELIC, we should be grinding tomestones to upgrade it! We need to modernize a lot of systems and menus in FFXIV, it would make things so much better
I haven't played ffxiv nearly as much as a lot of you but this is a great video, lots of good ideas / points :> I would LOVE to see xiv bring wow's transmog system over, it would be such a massive quality of life update for the game 💙
I agree! everyone says glam is the true endgame.... so we need an endgame worthy closet to match :3
The friends list in particular has always been perplexing to me. I'm surprised it hasn't changed in the lifetime of the game. definitely one of the more antiquated features that has been solved elsewhere. The wow example is really good one.
I'm hoping with the cloud servers they are testing, it can fix this!
It needs open world content, like Frontlines, Eureka, and Bozja for everyone to enjoy. Not Criterion Dungeons lol.
I agree, more things that push us out into old, dead zones! and we definitely need another eureka! it's still very popular!
Already announced for Eureka/Bozja like apparently. Criterion dungeons is a good idea that needs to be improved. Some content for people who can't gather 8 reliable people into a roster would be a plus imo.
I know it'll never happen, but I wish FF14 had more open world content similar to GW2. If the fate system was more dynamic and had chaining stories moving across the map it'd be a good start.
love these! friends list update is absolutely number 1
You're my number one, Dave
wish FFXIV had some really gool armors for SAVAGE / Ultimates... like WOW, ill give wow that much, they have always had some INSANELY AWESOME armors
I've had this discussion, that REALLY sought after piece that makes gear interesting. It may be hard to balance with FFXIV, but I love that feeling when you get some OP
@@llamatoddtv a great example, is the eureka armor, SUCH an amazing armor set. But hope eventually some cool WOW style armor gets added. I know 6.20 added some of those amazing ones with cool effects to them, so it's a start!
@@esko911 most armor in the game looks ugly, i would not play this game without mods anymore.
Amazing video! A lot of great suggestions with many supportive examples. I love the idea of notes and a friends list version of a party finder!!
Nailed it - also you have a radio/air pilot voice :)
PvP Rank needs to be Account Wide. So tired of facing off against players who hit Crystal who then created a new character to gatekeep the higher tiers. It's happening far more often than people want to admit. There are peeps in the pvp discords who openly talk about it from time to time. I'm by no means a terrible PvPer, but after 3days into the season/series w/e they call it, it's already too late to even attempt to climb because those players are already plaguing the lower ranks. This isn't a XIV problem alone but would be nice to see alleviated by making Ranks be account wide.
The datacenter things there is a reason it is limited...the ONLY thing that transfers is your player charater. To transfer everything your basicslly doing a world transfer. The only way its possible is if thry get rid of DCs and sync all DCs as one giant DC. Which i question is even possible without a full re work of all thr networking code and infrastructure.
Truly hoping Cloud based DC gives us an open window for more flexibility on this functionality, seems they are eager to test new things so we're heading in the right direction!
Great video Todd! nailed it especially with the friends list update we are ALL begging for
The social features need a complete rework I agree, I would love to see EXs able to be tuned harder later in the expansion too.
A lot of great suggestions here Todd!.
Someone get this to the devs. The Viera and Hroth hats thing really confuses me. In the interim, why not just enable hats on them? If the ears clipping don't look good, people won't wear them. They want their characters to look good so some decent options is way better than none.
I completely agree on the gear rewards changes and the difficulty range on content being expanded. I feel like they almost want to, but I have a feeling they are going to be too scared to take any big steps. Tomestone wise, I'd rather see the price of gear go down than the cap go up. If the cap increases that's just way more weekly farming work. Either way would still be better. They have 20 jobs with a cap that's been around since there were almost half that many.
Very well put together video with a ton of excellent ideas that would not only benefit the player base but also benefit SE!
Thanks so much Jager, I poured my heart into this!
I had to take a break part way through the video, around the point where you were talking about the butt sliders. But after that I watched the rest of the video with a clear head and it was great, keep up the good work!
14/10 would listen to a audio book of Llamatodd
Thanks Lava, have to use my narration voice here! Hopefully some guides down the road!
Some stuff I do agree with, but I wouldn't say this is what Dawntrail needs to be a "Massive Success" most of these are just quality of life improvements than core gameplay elements to bring success to the game.
I'd say it'd be the perfect cherry on top or icing on the cake, naturally with good story and raids holding it up
Great video! Very well put together and i agree with everything you said especially about the friends list!
Thank you frosty!
2:45 Never gonna happen. The Online Shop will always be what stops this from happening
Haha, yeah, they wanna make money, but this is just stuff I wish for, even if its more than likely not to happen
I coulda sworn during fanfest or a QnA, yoshi p announced they were adding a standardize look to viera ans hroth, so theu can give them more hats easier
certainly hope that pans out then!
WoW transmog system + GW2 dye system + XIV's gear styles...might as well rename this entry in the series Fashion Fantasy at that point 😛
honestly i wish they'd just update unreal in the sense of like... make a backlog of unreals accessible at all times and put them at the highest level for people who want to do that. the reward system they have is fine considering it's for cosmetics and they're not too hard at all and a fun place to be able to practice alt jobs at the highest level.
also i really agree with the alli raid giving ilvl relevant gear and it could be helpful for ult prog.
I would like the hair styles to be unlocked and available between races and genders. They have so many available for everyone already, and I want boy bun hair on my elezen.
Excellent video! Keep up the good work!
I agree!! More choices and customization, give us all the hair options and then some!
Really good points on all of the social feature issues in the game - they've been carried by discord for too long but that shouldn't be an excuse for things that sometimes don't work outright. I would love to be able to snipe friends' queues, no hassle required for pinging people or being pinged, just the occurrence of being online at the same time leading to playing with each other without organizing it
We need that mmo feeling back and interconnectedness, some people don't bother with discord, social media, so it'd be really cool to have ways to sync up with friends that are running content, it's a must have!
@@llamatoddtv Then maybe YoshiP's point of getting people to talk in savage and harder content will add that MMO feeling - because standing around a marker or someone posting a macro in PF? That to me has made me lose that MMO feeling much more than a friend's list.
I really liked the point about the chat and linkshells being available in the startup client. FF14 has put so much focus on the single player experience. I've played this game since the PS3 beta and I feel like I rarely have the opportunity to really meet and get to know people because of how restrictive the social features are. With DC travel you would think it would help people socialize more but I almost feel like its had the opposite effect because while you can travel cross DC, so many features don't work while you're off your home server
@@melissas4874 I really hope so! Silent PFs are so scary sometimes...
A house on a floating island in the sky?
Sign me up.
You'll be my neighbor!
Im hoping for friend list update but its probably easier said than done. i cant imagine a friend list update without major system overhaul or something.
Awesome Video! You made some really valid points! Hope to see some of these in the game!
I hope so too!
Excellent video, no doom and gloom / drama, straight to the point, objective and clear. Proper feedback :) Hope CBU3 sees it and takes it in consideration these ideas. Cheers
Comments like these really make my day, thank you so much for watching and taking the time to write that!
Nice easter eggs on those DPS/TANK training excercises :D
Also the "most difficult" content that i have bothered to even clear synched is GOLBEZ EX, since i mainly play PVP
I snuck a few in here and there, hehe
Great compilation of ffxiv players sufferings, let's puff some Hopium wishing YoshiP sees this while waiting for Dawntrail to arrive 😂..... jokes aside having a raid learning mechanic in sea stone sky training is an amazing idea, this needs to be in 14 more than anything else. How epic it could be if we can grind practice Savage /Ultimate mechanics on our own before attempting it with a static or in pf.
Dude, your ideas here are spot on. Got me excited to want them, but now I'm coming back down as I know anything SE does will be half-assed and still missing "that thing that would really make it good" from every feature they implement....
As much as we would like it, and this is from someone who has a lot of alts, FFXIV won't do any of the account wide features mentioned here as they've always been focused on the one alt can do everything mentality. Which is crazy when you consider that you can create up to 160 separate alts on a single account. The alt limit is 40 per data center not 40 per account and there are 4 of those centers. Meanwhile there are games with a much smaller alt limit that have more account wide features.
Yeah, they want to make that money, they're a business after all. Many other games do this though and it's super helpful
i can imagine people managing to fill over 15,000 glam plates within a month
I don't know if I would do mythic style WoW progression, but I do think they need something above savage. I'm saying this as someone who got kind of bored with savages and felt they were over-hyped regarding difficulty having come from WoW. M+ is very dynamic and savage just is not. I don't think they should steal affixes, but maybe do something with boss mechanics to achieve this.
What would I add? Viera hats.
I want all houses in the game to have bigger yards to show off more items and the option to have no fences to obscure said items. I like instanced neighborhoods (LOTRO had them as well), but they are only good if the devs are willing to add more. I liked my Wildstar instanced housing, but not as much. They should not make "FC only" neighborhood servers - all FC's should get a med or large plot and they should be in a neighborhood with solo buyers so it makes them feel more lively. By limiting FC's to larger plots, it opens individual players to the sm/med plots as well.
As for friend's lists etc? Eh. But I'll add said I said elsewhere that PF doesn't make me feel like I'm playing an MMO. Nobody wants to talk with others at all or be social. They want to post a macro or stand around a marker. If someone screws up while learning do they stop and talk about it? Rarely. They typically just pull again hoping it will work itself out. Ugh.
I'm mainly a classic player so my experience comes from the wrath affixes, and I think I agree that affixes might not work. It was cool for the first week or so, but once people figured out the affix it just became the same grind just more effort. I'm hoping with Yoshi-Ps discussion of adding new and interesting mechanics, they can find some ways to keep us on our toes. The dance style fights in this game are fun, but once you have the muscle memory for them its boring.
FF14's PF feels more intimidating to me than the classic wow pugs I used to run/join. Like you said, no one talks, and if you mess up you get kicked or blacklisted. It can be a very scary environment and I think the the repetitive nature of the fights leads to this kind of culture. Having more dynamic fights would be nice, but then it would mess with our previous 2 minute meta soo.... ahaha....
if you feel savage doesnt scratch the itch in terms of difficulty i would urge you to try on content ultimates
They can 100% spare the resources to provide a shitload of housing wards.
I’d rather them continue with the graphics update first. Housing isn’t the most important thing atm but in the future certainly. Just putting a house on the island would fix alot of problems with housing
Good video bro
thanks buggy!!
Nice video bud! Miss ya loads! Cereal_Knight here! 😊
BUTT SLIDDER LETS GO!!!!!
butts please, its what ffxiv andy's crave
When it comes to the chat window, I would also like to see more tabs…
Excellent Video! Hope the devs watch this
Thanks bro!
GW2 glam system is pretty much BIS. It's account-wide, and you get 4 dye slots for gemstore outfits. You can also dye the mounts and gliders. IF I WANT FENRIR IN HOT PINK, I SHOULD BE ABLE TO! 🤭
Seriously, I'm 100% on board, GW2 is goat for that.
lots of deja vu here, these are all a lot of the exact same things ive kept on a personal list for a long time. hope this gets traction because almost all of it is severely needed
todd got it right, wenz next vod? :D there could be plenty of videos like this :D
Amazing video! You nailed most of the very important things that the game desperately needs to change. This video should definitely be translated to Japanese and posted on the JP forums for all to see. The game can be so much better than what it currently is, but unfortunately a lot of very useful feedback such as videos like this are lost because of lack of communication and understanding between the different communities and the developers.
Thank you man! Yeah I thought about translating subtitles for jp, I'll look into it!
Agree on pretty much every front. The social features in this game, especially, are embarrassingly badly implemented for a game of this size. Even before gameplay related things, this game has issues with not being able to find people to play with, which is terrible for an MMO.
I still personally blame the casual players who just stand in limsa all day for lack of midcore and other content, for example the same sort who complained about Explorative Zones Eureka and Bozja really made up for the rest of their expansion.
I would love to see some adjustments to Warrior, it's definitely overtuned. I don't want it to be Bad, but it shouldn't be the best tank, because it is.
1. Point has been rehashed to death and SE isn't going to bother. The game has the resources to do this, but I believe there is a corporate decision preventing an expansion of housing.
2. They're going to do things about it, but I'm not holding my breath. Right now, they're slapping a band-aid fix onto a problem that was grown out of a community issue ("Hey! Everyone go raid on Light / Aether!") from years ago.
3. True. Account-wide things are nice, but let's be real. If SE ain't making money off of this, they ain't bothering.
4. This game's cosmetic options are so outdated. My old game, Mabinogi, has way more options in customizations and they're getting an engine upgrade soon. A game from the 2000s is beating FFXIV in cosmetics. The only way you keep up in this game right now is with third party tools and... we know where that route goes... Also, don't get me started on portraits. This game is so limited.
5. Midcore content needs to be stressed upon, because Extremes are the only thing bridging the gap and they're so hit-or-miss on a test of skill. Tutorial needs to be updated for every individual job, so you're not relying on third party websites. Horizontal progressing does need to happen, but I disagree with the Alliance Gear = Savage Gear. (Unless a harder mode alliance?)
The "main character synch" thing would be highly abusable if it didnt also share lockouts.
Well clearly, there'd have to be some limitations, like you'd have to do some MSQ or something that would prevent that level of abuse
Good stuff as always, cat dad
I personally think that glamour should only be restricted per class iff it's artifact armor.
Hard to argue with any of these... I suppose many come down to dev time tho... a removal of crud (Guildhests eg) would also be good.
OR they could even add to Guildhests and create more scenarios geared to help players improve!
@@llamatoddtv I don't have a feel for it really, but I get the impression that they have difficulty keeping the old content relevant as mechanics in the game change. If adding new things is arduous because old things need updating then cutting those old things could free up dev time to make more appropriate content. (they are after all only a small indie company!)
I HIGHLY support Island Sanctuary housing. Like even just a small cottage. I think that'd be cute. Kind of a shame that a lot of people can't use the decorations they obtain across the story.
Yeah like give us the option, we can still have normal residential districts, I just want more choices!
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Good thoughts, I agree with pretty much all of them.
Extra kudos for the cat snuggles at the end :D
Thank you so much, yeah I think I've found my new outro, Lucca loves to give me hugs
W vid Todd 👏 Love the presentation and editing.
All the yes, esp. the account wide unlocks, a better glam system + portraits, butt sliders, in game chat bubbles, in game sims and raid tools, plus more midcore content for those of us who don't have the time investment for Savage / Ultimate prog or the madness of PF reclears. Hoping that Cosmic Exploration has the fun activities also, would help with queue or pf waiting times, or want to wind down.
I'm facepalming at how the SE devs are slow af to catch on, or spaghetti code shit, or greed, idk
Moon house. Those Loporrits know how to party!
I would love to see them finally create a "normal" or "story" version of Coils. Such an important part of the story, which most people either don't do, or do unsynced, usually much later than intended. Adding it to the story like they did Crystal Tower, perhaps adding a normal tier to the duty finder, would be great for those that wanna do it legit.
def wish we had account wide stuff too. I switched my alt to my main because it won a house, I had to become an omnicrafter all over again, had to gear up in the savage tier all over again because it wasnt unlocked yet, had to get all my mounts and do tribes all over again.. its been over a year and I still havent done everything I had done on my original main yet. So weird that they arent doing anything about that yet
Exactly why! Alts could share houses, retainers, you name it!
loving the list, discord has replaced almost all the social features in game for me which is really sad we shouldn't have to leave the game client to do the mmo thing, and absolutely the cross account stuff I don't want to do achievements and mount collection on all my characters (especially if they're there for raid alts)
We could learn a lot from other MMOS that respect our time and love of alts. The social ui is just too dang old, at least fix the chat and friends list, i doubt we'd get anything voice, but man, we could use some better features.
Its super wild to me how much of the social features in an MMO are outsourced. I didn't start raiding till end of Shadowbringers and I was so lost on how to even get gear or what my rotation would be as a SCH. I eventually had a kind soul show me crafted gear because I was struggling to raise my ilvl to do experts, and actually bought me my entire left side crafted set. Without them, I would have been so lost.
Because of that I was able to join a static for E9-E12S, and eventually my static told me about the balance. It blew my mind. To this day when I introduce some of my wow friends to FF14 raiding its like... "trust me bro". The game definitely needs a better introduction to ease people from MSQ into end game content. It should be optional! but it also shouldn't be rocket science to get into.
@@llamatoddtv Alt friendliness is so important. SoD didn't get this right in the first two phases and it definitely contributed to my decision to scale back my commitment to that version of WoW.
People making alts instead of using Fantasia would cut down a lot on their income :P So why would they
@@MaakaSakuranbo I disagree with this. It doesn't really cut into their income for people to have alts because with an entry sub for 12.99 you can have 1 char per server. If you want to make more than 1 char per server, you have to pay the standard sub price for 14.99 and you can have 8 characters per server.
This mattered more in the sense of alts before cross realm. Now that we have cross-realm and DC, sure it doesn't matter as much, but they are getting their money, whether you play an alt or buy a fantasia. I played for years on an entry sub and I had several characters on multiples DCs. I eventually just bought the standard since I wanted to pay up front, since the 6 month sub price comes out the same with the added benefit of more character slots.
I don't think Square enix has a problem with alts, I think its just not the priority since a relatively small percentage of the population needs them.
"instanced housing" won't fix anything, your house is already an instance. Getting rid of wards would maybe free up space for 4-5 houses per ward, then those would get bought up and we'd be right back where we were. They need to fix instead how data is stored and retrieved, since that is the limiting factor for several areas of the game. If they fixed that issue, they could add enough houses to satisfy demand and then some, finally add a glamour log with all gear in it, increase cap and speed of friends list, etc.
"instanced housing" is just a buzzword for taking a housing system from another game, that works. Thing is, that won't work unless they completely rebuild housing from the foundation up to support it. We'd still run into issue of limited number of instances the housing servers can save the data for, to retrieve when the player accesses the data.
Whatever gets the job done, I'd love more options
My wishlist? If you have a house on your main, your alt on the same account should have ownership access to it. Meaning your alt can add/delete/modify furniture ect as if you're on your main.
Great idea, I agree, more shared stuff!
Really good video, you did a great job. Hopefully the devs team takes some of those ideas & implement them.
pretty sure they have said before that the tomestone engame limit is there so that you dont feel obligated to play every day and enjoy things outside the game
Have you met a ffxiv enjoyer?
The reverse can actually apply to that argument. Having weekly limit makes you feel obligated to cap the tomestone weekly limit by doing roulettes for minimum about 2 days a week if you can't make It to hunt trains, assuming you do every single roulette. Having no limit means players can choose when and what to play to grind tomes. You can actually take a full break a whole week without missing anything.
We know the reason for this limit is to keep people playing and subscribe to the game, not so they can touch grass. A good balance is just like llamatodd said in video, everything including tome limit should be unlocked by odd patches.
Numbers of reasons why they won't add most of these
1. 2.0 spaghetti code and servers. For example the glamours part. Yoshi p have confirmed multiple times they can't do something like gw2 or wow transmog because of limitations they have
2. Ffxiv have keep making profit. They made some of the features locked behind paywall lile extra retainers, dyes, 1 character per minions/furniture/etc to make players buy them again and a lot. And this is something yoshi p can't control because it's not his doing
3. They're more focus on making new content than fixing or updating qol. Most of the budget went to making new content so that they can stay on schedule.
Oh don't I know it, I've been wishing for this stuff through every expansion!!! And yeah, they want our money, but it'd be the right thing to do since many other games do this.
Substats need some work imo. Piety could tie into healers damage and healing throughput. But nothing that hasn't been said by you or other high end raiders. Ty for the vid
Yeah I didn't get into combat, I definitely have some ideas there too! Some of these substats are just awful
Based and true.
The UI was dated even back in 2012. In 2024 it's archaic.
It is embarrassingly antiquated! We absolutely need a modern ui
Seeing this video reminded me of another social feature WoW has, but 14 doesn't. For some weird reason you can't whisper anyone while you're in instanced content. I ended up having to make linkshells in order to do that.
YUP! communication tools plague us all, we rely on discord!
As a new player on xbox and a casual, i feel getting bis gear aint easy , as it requires savage raids , i wish there was a way to get the bis gear without having to enter savage difficulty
Raid tier still being locked at Ultimate release is completely stupid.
Facts. I did Abyssos as SMN, but wanted to do TOP as BRD. I was locked out by gear
The fact that taxi runs in PF are so common part way through the tier tells you everything you need to know about how good the lockout system is....
Great video!
took 2 hours to watch this video btw xdd
Thanks for watching and reacting to it man, really enjoyed hearing your takes on this too, hope you liked your BG3 cameo!
Why does this game need multiple worlds split into multiple datacenters? How archaic is the tech they're running? Is it not possible to get 1 DC per region instead of splintering them into multiple DCs and then further into worlds? That crap really needs to be improved.
I'd be curious to see what exaclty is holding them back so we can have may modernized features added in the game. As a whole FFXIV needs a lot of UI revamp. All the in-game social features have atrocious UI and functionality. Most of the time when you interact with the UI there's a confirmation window which can be very annoying. I'd like the devs to find a way to add what NoClippy is fixing during Dawntrail's cycle for gameplay related stuff. The game feels bad when plugins are down after a major patch 😂
I think old hardware, physical location of servers plus old 1.0 or arr code that's never been updated. They'd probably have to start all over for it
Alright. Addressing your wish list as I have knowledge by your list...
1. Devs said instanced housing is never gonna happen. More wards, probably. More locations? More than likely. But never instanced.
2. Data Center Travel was kinda a first step; I do think I've heard that they plan to unify DF/PF across datacenters eventually. Big deal since all raiding PFs effed off to Crystal and all the other NA DC's Party Finders are now dead.
3. I kinda feel like account-wide progression goes against the very nature of FFXIV. I highly doubt it'll ever happen.
4. The glam system kinda has been evolving over time. We already got 5 more glamour plates over the course of Endwalker and the capacity of glam dresser DOUBLED. We (the community) immediately started asking for more and YoshiP told us to chill TF out.
5. Yeah I don't really have much to say here regarding dungeons and raids. I do agree that we need more rewards from dungeons beyond materia and gear, but there's no way (and I strongly disagree with the idea of) making alliance raid gear on par with savage gear. They are extremely different content and the gear from savage gear being better than alliance raids is one of the main incentives for doing it, since BiS gear usually heavily leans on Savage gear.
6. See #2; cross-DC DF/PF seems to be a goal at some point during Dawntrail or the 7.x patch series. While an in-game raid sim would be cool, it seems incredibly unlikely.
7. Yeah the chat window stuff is annoying. It seems to be a holdover from ye olden days of 1.X/ARR plus some backend stuff.
8. CWLS and LS being separate is a holdover from before even cross-world connections were a thing. Maybe someday they'll be folded into each other but IDK
9. I guess we'll have to see what happens with Cosmic Exploration but I will admit I'm hyped for it too.
10. A lot of the friends list issues can be thrown back to items 6 and 8 on my list. Some QoL additions would be amazing, agreed.
Lots of good ideas here but also a lot of wishful thinking, honestly. It is kinda worth remembering that a lot of the quirks former/ongoing WoW players dislike in FFXIV are there because the game is developed in Japan and mostly made for a Japanese audience and to Japanese MMO standards/expectations. Us outside Japan kinda gotta just bear with it and poke and prod the devs for what we want/need. Don't forget! The devs said they couldn't implement a damage type indicator, but did so not even a year later!
I'd like to add with the DC the reason it's limited is because your not meant to make it kinda of a home server you need a reason to go back. Else certain servers will just hold servers to capacity where people can't actually join. And maybe the cloud datacenter test might be a solution to many of the points making each region there own cloud DC with 1 or many servers on it. To me that is still far down the line and maybe if it is happening it will be near 8.0 they start to migrate everything since they may want more stress tests done
Oh I wouldn't think they'd implement these things, they are definitely wish upon a star level items that we'd never see added to the game. But i think having cloud based DC's MAY solve a lot of our communication issues with linkshells and friends lists
1. The glamour dresser is the biggest thorn in the eye in terms of cosmetics. Its a middleman that just isn't needed anymore.
2. More midcore *would* be appreciated. Extremes are easily my favorite content in the game. They're nowhere nearly as demanding as Savage Raids but they do require more skill and knowledge than Normal Raids and Trials
Add notes to Blacklist too please.
I feel like of all the things I would want, none of them are on this list, except for maybe some of the glamour stuff and character creation options. But I think I’m a far more casual player. My wants would be far more basic.
Like, more stuff at the Gold Saucer or more zones designed around group content so you could play with your friends to do more stuff together besides your dailies. Things like Eureka or PotD.
Unique gear drops from world bosses.
You kind of touched on it, but fix housing. Not just instances housing so we don’t need to bid on slots, but more housing options. Let’s get some unique and interesting housing option in there. Also, fix the housing placement UI and options. The current UI is extremely limiting at the best times, and annoying and broken at the worst. I think ESO does a really good job in this area. Though I wish ESO would take some notes from the mounts in FFXIV.
This might be controversial, but I’d like to see more character combat customization. They could do it through slotting optional skills or gear sets that have unique traits. Just make it so that every max level player isn’t always farming for the exact same gear for the exact same loadout and having to run the exact same rotation.
And you've got some great ideas! These were just the top ones I've been hoping to see updated for YEARS
@@llamatoddtv I think if I were more tuned into the ecosystem of the game, I’d probably agree with you on your list. But I don’t have a huge friends list. I don’t have any linkshells. I have one character with around 1000 hours (which is more time than I’ve ever clocked in a single game), and don’t plan to do any alts. But there are people in my FC who were endgame players when I started playing, they were still playing when took a break for 6 months to a year between expansions, and they’ve done everything in the game but they’re still there everyday for some reason. These are people who are super tuned into the ecosystem of the game and would probably agree with most of your points.
@weltallelite hey I love hearing others opinions, I'm open to learning what everyone else wants because we all play the game so differently! I appreciate your feedback a ton, even if you don't agree with me!
keep em coming Todd