- story with a lot of volume
- hopes that players will play online for a long time to come
- each race has their own specific quests
- DQX should have an ending and a last boss
- auto-save feature alongside the traditional church save
- many times bigger than DQVIII's world
- your character is human, but gets transformed into one of the 5 races
- start off the game in a small village where you live with either your brother or sister
- use the character making feature to create your family members as well