Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XIV! (General)

Below is an article in regards to online harassment. It makes some very valid points.
By now, Yoshida-san and the dev team are well ware of the harassment that occurs in and out of DF.
Stopping said harassment is a difficult task since it requires a solution that isn't easily exploitable.
My suggestions, more than question, is that Yoshida-san and the dev team read the article and see if any of the solutions presented in the article can be adapted to FFXIV's harassment problems.
http://www.wired.com/2014/05/fightin...ne-harassment/

When will we get residential housing for individual players?

on the idea of housing, would it be possible to lower some prices for the large houses? also, it would be cool for medium and large houses to have a decent sized balcony. also, will we be able to add more of the primal furniture so we can make them pairs? and will we see new primal furniture? I would very much like that.

Atma farming is not fun. Please do not add content like this in the future.

I was wondering if you guys will add in Genji gear and weapons into the game? I would love to walk around looking like Gilgamesh! Also is there going to be a hard or extreme mode to Gilgamesh any time soon?

Are there any plans to have the Spiritbond Potion and the Durability Draught to remain on even after we die/respawn.

Are there any plans to add neon dye colors.

Can Yoshi-P do what he can to get Hildibrand as a secret/unlockable character in the next Theatrhythm game?

Question from Russian community. Are going to translate the game into Russian? More and more people from Russia connected to the game. And with the advent this game in steam this number will increase. But it would be easier if the game has been translated into Russian, too. And those who abstained from the game due to lack of English language would have joined the game.

PS:forgive me for my english.

Atma farming is really boring for most players and the Relic Upgrade Quest (from atma to animus) seems not to be so fun but people do it because they have to.
Will you do any adjustments? What do you think about the feedbacks given so far?

Will DOL + DOH classes ever be seeing an upgrade to make them more interesting for example adding a skill tree with 3 branches which allows the player to pick one and unable to use the 2 other branches making the jobs unique to a certain individual. for example if on a miner Crystal hoarder route, Ore hoarder route and maybe gem hoarder route, just loose thoughts.
Along with this will we see a sort of Mastery system put in place? we all start off on 1 star and work are way up to 5 or more 1 star = standard rate 5 star = +20% HQ and +5 quantity.

Are there any plans to add myth tomestones to the last boss in all lvl 50 dungeons so that some people wont leave after the 2nd boss and complete the dungeon.

Any plans to make adjustments to the skill speed stat for physical classes? Right now it is very undesirable for most physical classes due to its low impact on recast timer and its effect on TP consumption.

Will an item or quest be made that will allow redistribution of SP on chocobo abilities, similar to the Morning Dew available from grand company's? Or, perhaps! An increase in rank beyond 10 to allow further development of chocobo skills?

Hello! I recently finished the 2.0 MSQ. (Yes, just recently.) The Duty Finder group I joined was barreling through the Castrum Meridanum so I had to SKIP CUTSCENES in order to keep up or be left behind.

I acknowledged that this is the way it is now with DF groups since they just want to farm. So I skipped cutscenes because I thought could watch them at my leisure later in an Innroom.

However, upon accessing The Unending Journey, I encountered a problem?!?! There are missing cutscenes.

Rock the Castrum Lv 50: Only plays one CS. I believe I skipped two (or three?) CSs.
- I can watch the Raubahn speech before entering the Castrum.
- CS?
- But I cannot see the CS with Livia sas Junius

The Ultimate Weapon Lv 50: Only plays four CSs from after the battle.

What about the CSs during the run through the Preatorium?
- Mark II Magitek Colossus
- after the first Cermet Bulkhead is destroyed
- Nero tol Scaeva
- Gaius van Baelsar
- Ultima Weapon (part 1) (and part 2??)
- Lahabrea
- Post-Preatorium CSs (x4)

Why are we not allowed to view all the Castrum and Preatorium cutscenes? I feel deprived now that I did not watch them during my run. I want to see them. Would you make that happen please!


ADDENDUM 5/21/2014:
- errrrr, apparently I be having a nubby confusion fit.
- We can view the cutscenes; however, you have to view it at: The Unending Journey > Duties > Instanced Dungeons.
- Therefore, please disregard.

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Well, I finally got to watch those cutscenes!
3 from Castrum Meridanium
13 from The Preatorium

Those were some lengthy cutscenes from The Praetorium; I can understand why peeps want to skip them during speed runs.

However, people can lose out on some of the context because they are not watching them in conjunction with the actual dungeon run.
- which is one of the reasons why they made Party Finder available.
- form a party where everyone wants to view cutscenes and the group can move at that pace through the dungeon.

Nevertheless, I am glad I got to see them as they were worthwhile.

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Originally Posted by Murnau

Will YOU do ANYTHING ever about gil sellers? They are annoying and it's something I could deal with... if it was a free game. I do reports and it doesn't help at all. Can you at least add 1000 to blacklist? I'm pretty happy with the game but right now I'm paying to be annoyed all the time and watch you do nothing. Thank you

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http://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...287ee55d209143

150 bans per day is "doing nothing"?

Will ARR eventually support DirectX 12 low-level API for improved performance, or will it end with DirectX 11?

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Originally Posted by Bluplanet

Why are we not allowed to view all the Castrum and Preatorium cutscenes?[/B]

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You are allowed. They are in the actual dungeon category. Not the Main scenario category.

Will we ever be able to display peoples titles on their name over their characters, or will it always be reserved for examining them? I have a really cool title and want to show it off!

With retainer ventures being out for a while, I now have all four of mine near level 50. I notice that deciples of war/magic, botanists, and miners all can porcure items that are desired by the Grand Companies supply and provisioning missions, however it seems my Fisher is unable to find any fish that my GC wishes for. While I do not mind fishing, it is a large deal of time or money for some (I'm looking at you, Saucerfish) and was hoping above all, my FSH retainer would alleviate some of my burdens while out and adventuring. Is there any plans to adjust the items collected by fishing retainers, or any class of retainer at all?

Any chance that Samurai is sneaking its way in with the new jobs that are coming soon?

Thank You very much for bringing some of the version 1.0 tunes back for the new hard mode dungeons in 2.2. Will we see more version 1.0 songs in 2.3? Also, can you please give us an option to set the music to repeat in the field instead of playing just one track and leaving us while we gather materials only to listen to the swing of our Botany/Miner tool.

Player Commendations

Can you please make them pop in battle (like how Duty Finder pops) instead of a small notification? People are frequently forgetting these unless they're reminded.

when will we get them, what are the names and what roll will they have: dps,healer, tank

First question is: Will there be ways to customize equipment in the future other than Dyeing (end game gear included). At the moment, I feel that there is very few diversity between equipment for a character where one has to choose between Dungeon or Allagan Tomestones or Crafter equipment (except end game, crafted equipment doesn't apply here).

I would gladly see Materia affixing or a quest such as the Animus that you do objectives to raise a stat on a piece of equipment (but limited so that it creates diversity between equipment X from player A and the same piece of equipment from player B).

Second question is: Will we see new specs or roles introduced to the existing class/jobs. A Tank that can switch to a more Damage dealing stance or a Dps that in some situations will act as a Tank.

I love my Paladin but when queuing Titan or Ifrit (not the extreme versions) for example and I end up being the Off Tank, I feel that I am only there for decoration or the "oh shit" moments.

Why can we still not use our Grand Company Chocobos during Grand Company Levequests?

I assume it's because you can't be in a party for GC Leves, but are you ever going to fix/change this?

I was wondering if we could get some idea as to how the personal housing is going to work. Will it be exactly like the fc housing where you just buy plot buy house and done? Or are you going to try and boost the economy and have it to where you can choose to supply the materials to actually build the house yourself? Example you need 1000 oak wood 500 iron nails and so forth.

Currently, there are quite a few items that share the same icons.
For example, coke and brown pigment, potash and lime sulfur, morbol saliva and acidic secretions, or Azeyma Rose Seeds and... well just about any seed in the Yellow Baggies... The list goes on and on.

If possible, can special items have their own icons...or some sort of effect on them to make them stand out from the rest?

Will crafters see any improvements, so we will be more important than we are now? Primarily recipes we could find and make that people would want to have, or other aspects that would allow us to work with combat classes.

I noticed in the 2014s Eorzea Collection (with special guests) video a lovely lalafellin lady wearing a spriggan hat. Since, I've hunted all over for the hat, first assuming it was an easter reward and murdered countless (adorable) spriggans, in the hopes of cracking open their eggs to discover the hat, then wondering if it was a treasure chest reward, to no avail! ...Just a very deep sense of guilt.

Could Yoshida please give any hints to the location of this adorable headwear?

- Love, a very distressed spriggan enthusiast.

Are there possibilities of new gear that are more strictly used for glamour purposes (like the spring dress, sailor gear), but maybe dropping in dungeons?

There really are limited choices, especially for magic users, on creating an original look for your character. While I love the spring dress and sailor gear, they're also ridiculously expensive, or difficult to craft (spring dress/skirt).

I was hoping for more dungeon drops that would include a lot more glamour possibilities.

I know, I know. "You're such a killjoy lrn2havefun"..

But will there be an option implemented to turn off Glamour for your screen?
I'm cool with everyone else being snowmen, but I'd rather see the actual gear personally.

Without question this game is beautiful! Are there plans to support nvidia 3d vision in any future updates?

I kinda wanna know if the glamor will have the class restriction removed like lets say you wanted to make a archer wear a wizard hat or a wizard wearing heaving armor (image wise)?

Any idea if we'll get Bard HP song from xi?

Will there be a system to Friend/Blacklist DF people. So you can party again or avoid certain people?(i.e some DF groups are awesome and would like to spam dungeon with same group several times)

What happened to FC airship battle?

Will we ever see Blue mage?

I believe if your to add support only classes/jobs that all 4 man dungeons -(Tank/Dps/Dps/Heal) should be made 5 man- (Tank/Dps/Dps/Heal/Support) and difficulty increased. Leave 8 man dungeons alone and do this (Tank-2/ Dps-2/ Heal-2/Support-2). Is this possible?

Where is add on support? Many of my friends are leaving this game for various reasons and many of them are disappointed and kind of angered at the lack of it.

Is it possible to make the Morbol Screen furnishing the size of an actual door?
Currently it is very short, so short that my fem roeg clips into it every time she goes through.

:confused::confused: Why are we still not allowed to use our Chocobos when performing Grand Company Levequests? :confused::confused:

We obtained the chocobos from the Grand Company. So it does not make sense that we can't use them in that situation.

We are allowed to use companions during regular Levequests.

Just wondering if there are plans to create additional Level 30 Levequest opportunities at Forgotten Springs in Southern Thanalan.

It is a Sancutary and has an Aetheryte, but no Levequest NPC.

That is disappointing. :(

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Originally Posted by VallisRaine

Will there be a system to Friend/Blacklist DF people. So you can party again or avoid certain people?(i.e some DF groups are awesome and would like to spam dungeon with same group several times)

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I would have liked VallisRaine's post had he left one question at a time. Instead, I'll ask properly with a suggestion meaning no offense to anyone.

"Can we have an inter-server Friend/Blacklist system?"

What this would do is, as Vallis states, up the chances of us getting into a dungeon with the fellows in our Friend list and lower the chances of getting into a dungeon with the ones in the Blacklist. I've come across a few players that were fun to run with and would love to have been able to add them to said Friend list.