We all know FFXIV will receive a proper expansion, probably sometime next year. On top of that, the game has been receiving regular patches, along with various new features, dungeons, dungeon sections, bosses, equipment, etc.
With Yoshi-P already dropping some vague hints about what may appear in the next patch (2.4), and with certainty that there will be a major expansion sometime in the foreseeable future, unlike a certain other numbered Final Fantasy game, let's talk about what we would like to see in a future update/expansion.
- Golden Saucer. It's been long hinted at, and there are concept art for it. When the rest of the game involves incessant questing, crafting, gathering, FATE grinding, dungeons, raiding, and getting yelled at my impatient strangers, a place to just have weird fun would be great. Like Guild Wars 2's bizarre Festival of the Four Winds thing that has recently passed.
- Garlean storyline? All this time, every Grand Company and story quest goes on about Eorzea against an Empire hellbent on conquest, but what if I want to side with Garlemald? What if I want to experience their side of the story, amidst the likely political friction going on with the uncertain health of their emperor, two dead Legatuses(?), and a couple of disastrous conquests?
- Ishgard, maybe Ala Mhigo, and that other place where the Scions originated from. Expand on the geography of Eorzea (Garlean Empire too?), which is the obvious thing to do for the game.
With Yoshi-P already dropping some vague hints about what may appear in the next patch (2.4), and with certainty that there will be a major expansion sometime in the foreseeable future, unlike a certain other numbered Final Fantasy game, let's talk about what we would like to see in a future update/expansion.
- Golden Saucer. It's been long hinted at, and there are concept art for it. When the rest of the game involves incessant questing, crafting, gathering, FATE grinding, dungeons, raiding, and getting yelled at my impatient strangers, a place to just have weird fun would be great. Like Guild Wars 2's bizarre Festival of the Four Winds thing that has recently passed.
- Garlean storyline? All this time, every Grand Company and story quest goes on about Eorzea against an Empire hellbent on conquest, but what if I want to side with Garlemald? What if I want to experience their side of the story, amidst the likely political friction going on with the uncertain health of their emperor, two dead Legatuses(?), and a couple of disastrous conquests?
- Ishgard, maybe Ala Mhigo, and that other place where the Scions originated from. Expand on the geography of Eorzea (Garlean Empire too?), which is the obvious thing to do for the game.