2026 Adventurers' Survey

Mine doesn't let be submit on the final page. Fml

Careful with all those edges

Every one should fill this out, and we need the expansion

What browser?

First question I asked myself was how much does this survey cost?

300,000 JPY for the questant.jp “Premium Plan”, so roughly $2,000 USD, plus whatever the English side costs internally to review and translate comments. Add the employee time, graphics, internal/external presentation, and whatever else is involved. Let’s say $10,000 USD generously as a clean budget line item.

Those writing long thoughtful essays on deep mechanics will be ignored. Like I hate to be that guy because you’re the best ones, but just man, I’m sorry.

Besides, they could just visit the Official Forums in JP and look at the 200-page “Suggestions” thread, or browse JP Twitter, or use the built-in browser machine translation to get a rough sense of the FFXIAH/Reddit communities at both ends of the EN player base. (Hint: the installer sucks!)

But let’s put all of that aside, since they need “real metrics” to pitch this internally under Creative Business Unit 3.

I’m a typical casual and even I don’t like the campaign split. On the JP forums/twitter they complain about it as well so I have no clue what audience it serves. If you all remember, they started splitting the campaigns around the fourth or fifth round of Vana’bout—as though anyone is checking out of FFXI because their internal dilemma is: should I EXP or get a Siren’s Tear? Maybe it was more problematic the first rounds with the Ambu queues or 1hr of obligatory Ballista, but now it’s just a mental burden to track dates and time zones. Casuals are not optimizing, and hardcores already have it done. I don’t get it.

The Coalition Assignment campaign though was genuinely great and I appreciate that. More of that is great! Double Ichor! Triple Nyzul Tokens! Quadruple Unique Datas! The Phantom Gem campaign not including the new hyped up HTBF was a total miss. Like not getting your waifu flowers for Valentine’s. Straight to goal.

Job adjustments realistically are not coming. Too much time and budget, assuming the job/battle design talent on XIV has the available bandwidth to spend hundreds of hours (i.e. $$$).

The Mog Bonaza question was amusing. It’s a lottery: am I Slightly Satisfied or Satisfied about a lottery? Yeah, the Null Pieces are nice for new/returners but what are you really trying to sus out since that wasn’t the question explicitly? Sure, give me Nyame R15 as Rank 3 with CanSendPOL tags and I’ll buy more $1 mules.

Sil+Subs costs more than that, which for better or worse, was the influx that stayed after Bonaza Kupons.

Otherwise, I haven’t been a fan of the new Login Points system. Since I’d already carry over 700, the first login for +500 would allow me to buy whatever was relevant in short order. Now with fifteen days of +50, it’s a total chore, and I don’t really understand the mindset of “Daily Active Logins” or whatever metric they cooked up. After twenty years, someone got an online MBA?

I love the game, the aesthetics, and it’s fun still more or less, so thanks, here’s fifteen bucks and the obligatory monthly bug report (I’ve been “featured” in monthly version update fixes six times now out of 30 months paid ($500)! Is that “good” or “bad” value? Well it gives me a reason to shitpost here, so it’s the friends we made along the way.✌️

Mine had the same issues, so I copied all my answers to a notepad file just in case.
Then I noticed some questions said “0 characters” on the character counter, so I figured some kind of timeout?
I went back to the start, and for every text box I added a letter then hit backspace to trigger the word counter.
It let me submit my survey after I did the above. I’ll have to complain about this in the 2028 survey.

Edit: Also I didn’t like the 2,400 character limits per text box, some of us like writing more than 5,000 characters >.>

I always forget something I wanted to ask for after I've submitted it. This time around I forgot to ask them to finally let us unlock relic WS.

Looking forward to the dumbest ***being requested like "can you change the modifiers on Jishnu's Radiance to AGI instead of DEX?"

This doesn't make sense. Blade: Hi already takes full advantage of AGI, why would we need two Empyrean Weapon Skills based off AGI?

I tore Limbus a new *** across like three of the suggestion boxes. Mentioned a lot about old Limbus, and left suggestions on how to improve new Limbus.

Asked for them to give every job the Puppetmaster treatment for weapons they're natively skilled with. i.e. let them have all of the weaponskills if they meet the Combat Skill requirement. (for those not in the know, PUP used to have a C in Hand to Hand skill)

Suggested new event, "Ambuscade II" entry set in Kazham. Make it heavily specific job gimmick based, so every job gets time in the sun. Let it reward separate currency for Ambuscade +3 gear.

Praised the new Adoulin NMs and the double dip box rewards that encourage teaming up.

Recommended minor job adjustments, mostly to do with timers on JAs/amount of stat gained from traits etc.

Recommended upscaling Trials of the Magians to item level and going scorched earth on TP bonus offhands.

Beseeched them to actually listen to non-Japanese surveys.

Mostly all fruitless probably, since they typically never take NA and beyond input, seriously.

Shoulda just did what my buddy Spellz did, and asked for Mithra maid outfits (well I'd have asked for Elvaan F maid outfits, but still...).

Unpopular opinion, but I think this is a bad idea.
Trying to get AI to shrink "multiple detailed paragraphs" down to one or two sentences is just gonna have incorrect information.


You'd be better off using a proxy or VPN (bonus points: from Japan) and filling in cliffsnotes version 100 times (bonus points: in Japanese). Their AI will pick up the same feedback and its more likely to get bumped to the top of the list / make the final report.

Some of my wishlist
-Job adjustments
-Increase inventory (99 instead of 80 and/or more Sacks or Wardrobes)
-Limbus: 100%+ matter drop rate
-Cornelia trust permanent
-Reduce content entry requirements: Odyssey Gaol cost, 3 person requirement for Vagary/Delve/Incursion
-Universal auction house throughout all servers

A true man of culture.

I'm not sure if anyone has posted something similar, but I would appreciate if you think this is a good idea to please submit it in the survey.

Please add R15 versions to the Prime weapons with unique job-specific pathways which will allow players to have a more specialist weapon for their job class of choice. For example for Helheim there should be a path A (WAR), B (RUN), C (PLD), D (DRK) which each have unique augments that enhance the particular role similar to mythic weapons. I think this would be a great way to contribute to job adjustments and make the prime weapons feel more unique than just raw DPS weapons.

It would also be incredible if they added a limit-break ability to the stage 5 primes to allow surpassing the 99999 damage cap, akin to ultimate weapons from other final fantasy titles.

I'll have what your smoking. Buffs to prime weapons? Don't be silly. They are mostly the best weapons in the game they don't need anything extra adding on.

Words lost in the wind, but I suggested to add more teleporters in Sortie so that runs can be faster.
Same amount of total points possible (the amount you get in a 9 boss run) but that way a competent group already able to do 9 boss can be done in like 35mins instead of 60, and a less competent group (who was able to only do 7 or 8 bosses) now gets more chances to do 9.

I would personally love slightly faster Sortie runs, given how you spend like, what, 50% of the time running around?

I asked for a NPC or some other way of keeping track of progress for mastery rank because I need to know if doing master levels/last 3 master trials will get me to rank 10 or if I should be worried about Escutcheons for other crafts or Besieged as well.

Asked for them to spend some of the money FFXI makes on FFXI.

Also I want a pony.

A sortie earring exchange NPC…

What they should do for prime weapons is actually give their weapon skills unique animations. I get that at the time they made them they weren't able to, but if I remember correctly, they've addressed that particular limitation since then.
It's one thing for them to be palette swapped weapons due to the lore, but the completely different weapon skills really shouldn't have the same animations.

What they "should do" is absolutely not that. Focus on substance not aesthetics.

This, and a way to reroll the augments by trading sapphires or starstones.

Besides bitching like a bravo housewife about Limbus I made a few suggestions:

Add +2 cases as drops to sortie. Does anyone have all 22 +2 earrings?

Add unique augments to primes like others have suggested and take REMA to r25/30.

Step up Ambuscade difficulty and +3 the gear.

New battle content for groups done with Odyssey.

Nerf Odyssey v25s.

"New battle content" is literally Limbus. You're welcome.

So the actual want is "new battle content on a difficulty level on par with Odyssey v25".

a) Less than 1% of the players actually want that
b) There is no dev team available to make such content anymore

You can't be "done with" odyssey without being done with v25

Ergo, it's implied

New/better implies moar harder, too