What do you want to see added to the game in the future?

[Dravus]

A simple question, though one that will no doubt bring forth quite a bit of discussion and a vast variety of different ideas. There's quite a few features that I'd like to see added to FFXIV, though I'm lucky enough to have at least two of them confirmed for future patches: individual player housing and a barber shop.

 

There's some other things I'd like to see added, though:

 

- The ability to 'hide' jewellry in a manner similar to how you can choose to not display your character's head gear.

 

- A hard mode for Castrum Meridianum and The Praetorium. I won't spoil anything but both dungeons have some of the most memorable boss fights and musical pieces present in the game, though they're a tad on the easy side for what they're meant to represent.

 

- A boost to the amount of experience rewarded for battle levequests in order to bring them more in line with the amount that FATE events reward players with.

 

- Additional ways to acquire gil, perhaps offering a decent chunk as an incentive to go back and do some of the low level dungeons and guildhests.

 

- More options for the character creation system. Some of the races have many more features to customise than others and a lot of player characters look eerily similar to each other.

[YesGood]

A butt to bust slider. Too top heavy for my tastes.

 

I'd also like to see a 'wear this item' thing where you click on something to see what your toon would look like in it? There might be one, but if there is, I've missed it.

 

I'd also like them to add some more emotes. I know there are a lot of them but mm... wish there were more.

 

And finally... a perpetual knee emote. I hate kneeling for five seconds and getting back up.

[K'dath]

Leviathin-egi.

Also, a way to Vylbrand (Limsa Lominsa) from Aldenard (main continent) without paying. You have to option to walk from Ul'dah to Gridania if you don't want to waste the cash porting or taking an air ship. But need to get to Limsa? Too bad, better pony up. As a miser, this drives me utterly insane.

 

I hope they remedy this by giving chocobos an additional 'water wings' barding which will enable me to float them across the ocean. Don't laugh, cassowaries can swim.

[Kismet]

- A permanent /kneel emote.

- A new fairy and/or egi for SCH/SMN. Maybe a third Carbuncle.

- A /sleep or /liedown emote.

- A preview armor/weapons feature.

- The ability to dye items we currently cannot that already have different color variations present in the game. (I'm looking at you, Acolyte's Robe... <_<)

- Moar character customization features.

- Optional race-specific quest lines would be cool.

[Erik Mynhier]

(For Males) The ability to turn on or off our facial hair. IRL I can grow a beard one day and shave the next can't I?

 

More bardings for non-chocobo mounts.

 

Special "Freelancer" skills that could be earned through quests. Each on and added trait. Stuff like longer sprints, better prices from shops, exc. QOL stuff.

[Nox]

- Name changes. I've seen way too many people make a character, then decide that they dislike the race or something and want to change... but are stuck with a highly race specific name. I'm one such case. I kind of want to switch from Miqo'te to Elezen but, as you can see, my character's name is "X'sato Gysahl". 

 

- More customization options, specifically hair.

 

- I'd love to see a stance choice. Much like how Male Roe MRD/WAR have a different stance from every other race in the game, I'd like to see that but... By choice. Not just for combat stances either. I'd love to have a different standing stance from what I have. So, more or less, different animations you can pick.

 

- More Hair.

 

- More Hair.

 

- Did I mention more hair?

 

- Vanity slots. Now.

[Brave]

I want the class that lets me use a greatsword.

 

This MORE then anything ><

 

Other then that a lot of the things people brought up are things I'd echo.

*ponders*

Class specific limit breaks would be nice.  That way Pugilists don't whip out buster swords because they think it would be cool to disregard all their punchy training =P

 

Let's see...

 

Maybe a crafting profession that had us dabble into magitech stuff?  I think it would be nice to see Cid encouraging his new home to adopt the technology for good. =P

 

All the other changes are just icing on the cake =)

[LiadansWhisper]

- Vanity Slots

- More endgame dungeons, please please please

- Vanity gear (whether crafted or something you can just buy and put in your vanity slots)

- more chocobo colors

- more hairstyles for Midlander Females, as there is a terrible lack of options right now!

- Long hair!  omg...

- Permanent kneel emote

- sleep/lie down emote

- the ability to /sit on ledges!

- more chocobo colors

- a barbershop!

- horses (sorry, but I love horses! and no, my unicorn doesn't count!)

[Rinh Hallani]

• More character customisation options, from faces to hair and everything in between.
  
• Barber shop.
  
• Name changes, paid or free.
  
• TRANSMOGGING gear!
  
• A /sleep emote particularly but more emotes in general.
  
• Ability to preview armour on your character.
  
• Dye options more like GW2 so you can dye each area of the armour separately, e.g. black on the trimming, red on the main, or whatever.
  
• Ability to dye more (most? all?) armour sets.
  
• Right-click, report for spamming, insta-blacklist button on chat.
  

[Aeslyn Grey]

Speech bubbles for when players use /say, and a last logged in feature to make management of Free Companies and Linkshells easier as well as all of the above.

[TheLastCandle]

- Rapiers as a seperate weapon class and ome sort of Fencer class and/or Red Mage job.

- Black chocobos.

- Vanity slots/gear.

- More egi! Leviathan, Ramuh.

- Ties into the above, but more primals. FF has a wealth of summons/espers/eidolons to choose from. It should be a given, but..

[Yloise]

• Vanity armor/clothes!
  

 

 

 

sorry i couldn't make it any larger.

[lutroxical]

I am a relatively new player, but there are a few things that I miss/wish were in this game.

 

• Preview armour
  
• Right click blacklist for spammers
  
• Race specific quests
  
• More hair! Or more race-specific hair...?
  
• Dye options like GW2 would be amazing, but I'm not holding my breath
  
• More chocobo colours
  
• Chocobo breeding/stables (I like chocobos..)
  
• More body/face customization options
  
• Name changes
  
• Buyable "Fantasia" potion (cash or gil)
  
• Skinning armour
  
• Pet macros
  

There are probably more, but that's off the top of my head.

[SessionZero]

Cloaks. Everything else I want has been said.

[Dravus]

A limit to the amount of times someone can post something in the 'shout' chat channel would be brilliant. Perhaps up to six messages per minute? It'd encourage more people to write in full sentences and stop gil sellers from spamming over and over and over again.

 

I'd also like the option to defect to the Garlean Empire at some point or play as a pure blooded Garlean that is aligned with the Garlean Empire. If we're to see Garlemald I want to see it from the perspective of those that inhabit it, rather than as an invasive force from Eorzea to 'save' it.

[Raccoon]

Hm, something other than what has been mentioned. Some way to easily log chat would be nice. You can copy and paste but it turns into a jumbled mess in your word processor of choice, though I suppose someone could rig up a parser, and that method isn't really all that great for long scenes. I just like having chat logs to fall back on when I misremember something.

[Erik Mynhier]

Cloaks. Everything else I want has been said.

Absolutely, because a Paladin without a cloak is just a Knight.

[Rio van Rosch]

-Puppetmaster! I mean, we have mammets in game. We're halfway there!

-Some sort of neutral garlean camp or Garlond Ironworks-ish type place? Somewhere Garlean RPers can hang out.

-A DPS job for Marauder. We already do a decent job at damaging things, just need to give us an excuse to queue as DPS.

-More hair options, along with maybe more tattoo and face paint options? Ooh, and secondary highlights for some really weird hair color combinations.

-Fantasia and other character recreation options as buyable mogstation things. Because I want more.

-Right click blacklist.

-More dyes, more dyes! 

-The ability to dye more dungeon sets and other green and above quality armor. (Lookin' at you, Monk AF.)

-Despite the hilarious 50+ page thread on the official forums about it, I would not mind a butt slider.

-"Hidden-away" areas that are dangerous and no one goes to. I miss large sections of every map in 1.0 being sealed off by level 80 mobs and feeding my friends to them just so I could see what was there.

[Lost River]

-New Hairstyles

 

-Ability to Dye items previously undyable AND secondary dying (no more brown straps!)

 

-New Classes/Jobs (More than likely will come in new expansions)

 

-More character editor setting sliders

 

-Body Tattoos, if not added at creation, add as a wearable vanity item

 

-Vanity Item Slots For Tattoos (I know Vanity for armor is on it's way)

 

-Preview Armor Ability

 

-New Armor variation/Weapon variation

 

-New Combat Mounts (Might happen in expansion)

 

-Mini-Games! 

 

 

Realistically, of all of the things I request, the only one I know that is nil to none is the character editor setting sliders. They already said "No, can't do it." Prior.

[Dat Oni]

• The ability to right click on someone's name in the chat, bringing down a drop down menu with the option to automatically add them to the Blacklist. (Instead of the copy/paste crap we have to deal with now)
  
• A prompt asking if we want to report that user when we add them to the blacklist, with the option to turn said prompt off.
  
• The ability to have multiple currency totals shown on screen at one time.
  
• An item that allows you to call your Retainer anywhere, with a cool-down time around the same as Recall.
  
• Armor preview in shops.
  
• Vanity for armor.
  
• Primary and Secondary Dyes for items.
  
• Sleep emote.
  
• Race-Specific emotes. (I.E. Tail wag for Miqo'te.)
  
• Support/Healer-Type Egi (Casts protect, stoneskin, etc.)
  

[Naunet]

Alright, I'll bite. Some of these wishes are pretty straight-forward; others would require significantly greater effort and attention to follow through on.

 

1. Expanded dye system. Remove the restrictions on dungeon and AF gear to make them dye-able. Expand the color choices. Create primary and secondary dye parts on each armor for even better variability.

 

2. A /sleep emote.

 

3. Improved UI. I want to be able to remove the mana bars and cast bars on the party UI and filter which buffs and debuffs I see. Timers for said buffs and debuffs on the party UI are a must (a rotating shader wheel like the cooldown timer on the action bars would be nice and compact). Filtering of buffs and debuffs on target unitframes is a must. Allow macro'ed abilities to display the spell's tooltip as well as the out of range indicator (neither of which currently work if you use macros for your spells).

 

4. Greater armor variety. I should not have to wear the same potato sack robe for 40 levels, and I certainly shouldn't see that potato sack make a grand return after I hit 50 either.

 

5. Greater variety in boss mechanics. Far too many fights amount to "Kill adds and move out of the way of X on the floor." Some break the mold to an extent, but they are few and far between. When I hit 50, I was expecting some honestly challenging encounters, but everything I've done has been a yawn so far. I'll admit that this is likely in part due to my lengthy raiding history prior to ARR; someone new to PvE encounters may very well indeed find these fights challenging and complex. However, I don't think it's too much to expect a new MMO to go beyond "kill adds and move out of X". Halls of Origination, a single heroic 5-man, had more boss mechanics than every level 50 dungeon I've done to date. I shouldn't have to wait for Coil to get a good fight out of this game.

 

6. High resolution textures. This really shouldn't even be a problem in 2013, but apparently it is.

 

7. Fewer invisible walls. Zone boundaries? Okay. But open up the zones within them - and preferably just open up the zones in general, because right now they're mostly just tunnels funneling you from one place to the next. Give me wide, open spaces (or wide, cluttered spaces filled with trees, or whatever - just BIG zones please).

 

8. I know we're getting vanity slots, but I'd like to specify: Anything less than LotRO or Rift's systems in terms of customization is just not good enough. No armor type restrictions. Include weapon slots. Go the extra mile and give us ticky boxes to choose which slots to display or hide individually. Also, I'd like vanity slots to arrive sooner than 6 months down the line.

 

9. Body type customization. Simple presets across a spectrum of slender to curvy would be enough; we don't really require sliders for this.

 

10. Expand the musculature slider to all races.

 

11. More hairstyles. Self-explanatory!

 

12. Remove the level locks for things like dye and bank space. I'm fine with putting the broker behind a level wall for RMT-combating purposes, but there's no reason I shouldn't be able to dye my clothes or store my crap at any level. On a related note, I should not have to level a combat class in order to get access to these very basic things (dye, bank space, selling stuff on the broker, airships).

 

13. Public grouping a la Rift. Parties would have two settings: public or private. If someone or a group of someones is nearby and has their group set to public, a button will appear on your UI somewhere that you can hit to join their public group. Similarly, if two public groups that aren't full are near each other, the button comes up to merge public groups (with an associated un-merge button). This would make grouping for FATEs far more of an organic process.

 

14. The current attribute point system needs to be tossed and replaced with a system that allows for actual individual customization. Currently, there is no decision-making that goes into picking up your points. Look at WildStar's Milestone system or WoW's current "talent" spread for good starting ideas on design. They've both turned the traditional "spec" system into individual utility decisions, and it's great.

 

15. The in-game mail function needs to work for alts.

 

Uhm... I could probably continue. I have some pretty huge critiques about this game. It's an excellent base and the roleplay potential is phenomenal, but it definitely has a lot of room for improvement.

[Shae'ra]

My list:

• Item / Armour Preview
  
• Perma-Kneel
  
• Perma-Lay Down/Sleep
  
• More Mounts
  
• Ability to send items from one character to another without having to go through a friend to transfer said items.
  
• Ability to dye more sets
  
• The Appearance Tab ♥
  
• Body Sliders: I would love to play a shorter, more child-like Elezen..but that child face on that huge, lanky body just doesn't sit right with me. Why can't we make one proportional like the Twins?
  

 

I do believe someone reported that SE mentioned they were in the process of working on an Appearance Tab so that you can keep all your normal armour on, but then toggle an appearance tab so that it appears as another set: however the appearance set has no effects of actual armour stats. If so: I cannot wait for this as it will aid greatly in diversity at end-game.

[Nako Vesh]

• A muscle slider for ALL the races. I mean for craps sake, Miqo'te are supposed to value physical prowess and yet we get no option for muscle definition on females. 
  

• An overhaul to how buffs and debuffs are handled on the raid frames, and just more customizing for raid frames in general.
  

• More Keeper lore.
  

[J'rakh Tia]

(For Males) The ability to turn on or off our facial hair. IRL I can grow a beard one day and shave the next can't I?

 

More bardings for non-chocobo mounts.

 

Special "Freelancer" skills that could be earned through quests. Each on and added trait. Stuff like longer sprints, better prices from shops, exc. QOL stuff.

Agreed.

 

I'd like to see a muscularity slider for miqo'te and Elezen males, too. In general, more extensive body sliders would be appreciated. And *cough* a bulge slider *cough*. Females get a bust slider, so it's only fair!

 

More customisation options! Especially for the Midlanders and Elezen. I'd like to be able to design characters that look like Gabranth or Edea.

 

As for classes, a new disciple of magic, and now jobs are always welcome! A battlemage type class would be amazing. More spells and abilities! Moar!

 

More emotes, especially RP-friendly ones! I'd also like the ability to change your character's "passive" stance. Basically, emotes that make your character interact more extensively with their surrounding world are what I'd like to see added.

 

I'd like more skimpy outfits too for males, but ones that look less like they originated from a Pride Parade that bumped into the Rio carnival, and more like something out of Conan the Barbarian. GW2 had great artistic direction when it came to its gear, and FFXIV can learn from this.

 

The ability to get robes and armour that look less stodgy and more elegant, e.g. gowns rather than robes, would be a plus.

 

Additional Garlean lore and, perhaps, the ability to play Garleans.

 

I agree with most of the ideas suggested by others here, e.g. cloaks.

 

I'd love to see account-level achievements, especially since people like me enjoy tying particular classes to specific characters, which isn't the most efficient way to do things since you're meant to level more than one class per character; I'd rather have the ability to specialise my characters and still reap the rewards in terms of achievements.

 

As for stat allocation, I wish they'd take another look at the Elezen; it would have made more sense, to me, to push the Wildwood as the more "physical" variant of the race, with the Duskwight possessing more magical prowess, not least of all because many Wildwood seem to take the path of the archer or lancer.

 

More racial lore! I'd like the character's race to have a meaningful impact on my gaming ezperience. I don't like the idea of brushing race off as nothing more than differently configured pixels! As such, racial abilities, emotes, outfits etc. are all good things.

 

More locations, more challenges for players after a more hardcore experience etc etc.

 

Their idea of allocating rewards based on subscription time is very good, so I hope they keep it up.

 

I'll stop now.

[Kismet]

They do plan to release HD textures for PC players in a later patch, actually. That's why the game looks so "flat" right now compared to 1.0. We're seeing the PS3 version right now, basically.

 

As for people who want longer hair, typically you don't see a lot of super long styles in MMOs due to clipping/physics/coding issues. But I would like to see more styles around the length of the longest fem Roegadyn styles. That's probably as long as it's gonna get, realistically.